Trump DOJ factory ousted and harassed staff for evidence of electoral fraud: AP

The White House factory at the Justice Department has been blacklisted for pressuring staff to hand over evidence of electoral fraud, the Associated Press reported, citing three sources familiar with the matter.

Heidi Stirrup – a key ally of President Donald Trump’s senior political adviser Stephen Miller – was appointed White House liaison to the department this fall.

Stirrup has been told to leave 950 Pennsylvania Avenue for the past two weeks after “senior justice officials learned of his efforts to collect inside information on current cases and the department’s work on voter fraud.” , wrote the AP.

Stirrup is said to have engaged in other faults at the Justice Department, including offering his allies high-level positions without White House approval.

Business Insider has contacted the Department of Justice and the White House for comment.

On November 7, the Department of Justice said it would review Trump’s baseless claims that the U.S. election was fraudulent.

There is no evidence to suggest electoral fraud, and on Tuesday Attorney General Bill Barr said neither the Justice Department nor the FBI had found any evidence to validate the president’s claims.

Trump and his allies have filed at least 32 lawsuits challenging the 2020 election results and have so far failed to win any of them.

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Stirrup was one of many Trump administration officials planted in various government agencies by White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Chief of Staff John McEntee in late September, CNN reported.

Others included Joshua Whitehouse, who transferred from the White House liaison at the Department of Homeland Security to the White House liaison at the Department of Defense, Foreign Policy reported.

Two weeks after his arrival, Whitehouse signed a directive removing 11 of the 13 members of the Department’s Defense Policy Council.

Officials told Foreign Policy that the purge was meant to make room for new people loyal to Trump.

In an earlier ploy to monitor government agencies, the White House in June placed two political operatives at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to keep tabs on Director Robert Redfield.

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Stirrup is still officially employed by the Department of Justice, the PA said, but Trump announced a new role for her on Thursday, appointing her to the U.S. Air Force Academy’s visitor council.

Prior to being sent to the Department of Justice, Stirrup worked as the Acting Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement and White House Liaison Assistant at the US Department of Health and Human Services.