It Was Time to Take Out the Trash
Trump Fires All Remaining Biden Era U.S. Attorneys, "Cleans House"
Trash Day Finally Came
Wednesday, February 19th, 2025: By Walter Curt
They finally got what was coming to them. On February 18, 2025, President Donald Trump unceremoniously fired every last Biden-era U.S. attorney—a move long overdue and wholly justified given the level of rot that had festered in the Department of Justice. These prosecutors, many of whom played an active role in the partisan circus of indicting a sitting president, are now gone. And frankly, good riddance. It’s about time.
We’ve heard endless pearl-clutching from pundits decrying how Trump’s action was “unprecedented” or “politically motivated,” but spare me the melodrama. Every president since Bill Clinton has replaced the top federal prosecutors from the prior administration. In 1993, Clinton fired all U.S. attorneys who had served under George H. W. Bush. Bush himself had replaced those who served under Ronald Reagan. Barack Obama did the same with George W. Bush’s picks. Joe Biden continued the tradition in 2021 with Trump-era prosecutors. No one batted an eye over those purges. Now that Trump’s in the Oval Office again and doing what every other president has done, the media meltdown is in full swing.
The difference this time is that these Biden holdovers were especially blatant about turning the DOJ into a political weapon. They targeted a sitting president—Donald J. Trump—dragging our justice system into the gutter by subjecting him to investigations and even indictments over flimsy, politically charged allegations. That alone reveals just how far from neutrality these so-called professionals had fallen. Let’s not forget: they also went after Trump’s allies, effectively putting up a “For Sale” sign on the scales of justice. If you had the “right” party affiliation or worldview, you got a pass. If you were seen as standing against Biden, you got hammered by an abusive system that forgot the presumption of innocence. Enough is enough.
Critics whine that Trump went a step further than tradition by issuing termination letters rather than asking these prosecutors to resign. To that I say: yes, and? If the DOJ was infested with prosecutors who cared more about attacking the president than serving the public, then they deserved nothing less than a firm boot out the door. Polite requests to resign are for people who at least pretend to uphold the impartial duty of their office. These so-called “public servants” lost that courtesy the minute they decided their role was to champion an anti-Trump political agenda. You can’t expect a handshake when you’ve spent years biting the very hand of justice you were supposed to feed.
Many of these attorneys had the nerve to act shocked, as if they never saw this coming. Let’s be real: they knew exactly what was on the line. That’s why some scurried away early—resigning on their own before the official letters landed. If they truly believed they’d done nothing wrong, why not stick around and defend themselves? Their haste to leave tells you everything you need to know. When you’ve been part of a DOJ that tramples on due process, selectively enforces laws, and orchestrates politically motivated prosecutions, you don’t wait to be politely escorted out. You run before the music stops.
Of course, we’ve got a chorus of doomsayers predicting this “mass firing” will bring chaos to ongoing cases. As if that’s some tragedy. Let’s not forget that many of these ongoing cases—especially the ones targeting Trump and his supporters—were shaped by partisan zeal in the first place. Hitting pause on prosecutions tainted by political motives might be the best thing that ever happened to genuine justice. Let replacements come in, review the dockets, and pursue only those cases grounded in facts and law, not vendettas.
And for anyone who claims this is purely personal on Trump’s part, let’s remember the big picture: Every administration has the right (and responsibility) to install attorneys who reflect its priorities. President Biden did it. President Obama did it. President Bush did it. And President Clinton did it. You can’t pretend that’s not part of the game. Why is it suddenly an “attack on democracy” only when Trump does it? Hypocrisy at its finest.
The real scandal here isn’t Trump’s firings—it’s that so many Biden-era prosecutors tried to weaponize the power of the federal government to undermine their boss’s political rival. That’s textbook corruption, and it’s exactly what the Founders feared when they warned against tyranny cloaked in “the law.” These individuals wore the badge of justice but exploited their authority to persecute. They indicted a sitting president and relentlessly pursued anyone who dared to support him, blatantly disregarding the ideals of fairness and impartiality.
Let’s talk about the real victims here: the American people. Our faith in the DOJ has been eroding for years. Why? Because every time we turn around, another partisan scandal emerges, from the Russia hoax to politically charged investigations. The Biden-era prosecutors were the embodiment of that rot. With them gone, there’s finally a shot at rebuilding a DOJ we can trust—not just as a tool for whichever party is in power, but as a pillar of our republic that defends the law without fear or favor.
If there’s one silver lining, it’s that Americans now see just how far off the rails the DOJ had gone. We can only hope that the new slate of attorneys—handpicked by an administration determined to rectify these wrongs—will remember the mission of seeking truth and justice, not headlines and political wins. This is the kind of housecleaning that should have happened a long time ago, and it took a president with enough grit to pull the trigger.
Were some feathers ruffled? Absolutely. Is this going to spark lawsuits and non-stop whining from the usual suspects? You bet. But none of that changes the fact that it was high time to rip out the roots of corruption. Every president since Clinton has replaced the previous administration’s attorneys, and yet these Biden holdovers somehow decided they were untouchable—immune from accountability after prosecuting a sitting president in an unprecedented power grab.
Well, now they know better. They’re gone, and it can’t happen soon enough. The sooner we take out the trash, the sooner we can get on with restoring a DOJ that serves the American people rather than a partisan agenda. Good riddance. Let’s turn the page and finally pursue justice the way it’s meant to be done—blindfold on, scales balanced, and politicians’ personal vendettas left at the door.
