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Trump has done something again. Maybe. At least someone has done something, saying it was on behalf of Trump. The Librarian of Congress was dismissed from her position as of yesterday. The dismissal came through an e-mail from Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel Trent Morse, at least that is according to The Hill. Of course, "Trump Fires Librarian of Congress" makes a better headline than "Some White House Employee Fires Librarian of Congress." Not that it matters in the end whether Trump gave the order. After all, how many orders did Joe Biden knowingly give?
Still, it is not really the point who did it. And it is blowing up in half the media. The New York Times, NPR, etc. have stories on the firing. Democratic politicians are quoted about it and how Trump wants to ban and burn books. No word about it on Fox that I have seen as of yet. The only information I have seen from what might be called "our" side is that some foundation declared the now-former Librarian of Congress to be too woke and supporting gender reassignment in children. They said this before the dismissal. Thus, we have half the story at most.
To be clear, the Librarian of Congress' term would have ended next year anyway, and Trump would have appointed her successor. (If he's dismissing her now, the likelihood he would have renominated her to another term seems low.) Thus, the most that can be said is that the dismissal is an acceleration of what he would have done anyway. But the part we do not have is the reasoning from the Trump administration's side. My own guess is that Doctor Hayden either already had programs scheduled to further the woke and DEI agenda and did not cancel them or came up with more in defiance of the administration's policy. She would not be the first person in the government who was willing to fight the Trump administration, nor the first who found out what Trump's tolerance for employee defiance is. But again, that is merely my speculation. I have not found any comment on this personnel matter from the Trump administration in research before writing this.
A librarian of my acquaintance brought this story to my attention this morning. She was rather hot about it. Her reaction reminded me of an incident several years ago, when an acquaintance through Facebook brought the Trayvon Martin story to my attention. The acquaintance was a black minister. He pointed me to the story in a British tabloid. I looked it over, and then said, "Are you sure you want to believe this source? It seems as if this is less than half the story." It turned out I was right then. It was less than half the story. The tabloid's only picture of Martin was from when he was a twelve-year-old boy, not a hulking seventeen-year-old young man. Eventually, we learned more facts in that case.
In this case, I have no idea if we will learn more facts. Part of that comes from blind spots. There are stories that the feudal-establishment media never covers. There are also stories the freedom media never covers. This could be one of them, unless the feudal-establishment media makes enough of a stir about it. Again, I have my suspicions about why she was dismissed early. Maybe time will tell. Maybe the Trump administration will say that it's a personnel matter and not be forthcoming. And maybe they will be very forthcoming. Again, time will tell.
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It's the Library of Congress. Not the War Department or the State Department or the White House Chief of Staff. She was an Obama appointee, and so guaranteed to be conducting black masses in the reading room during off hours. The librarian's portfolio includes Congressional research services, traditionally strictly non-partisan but there are hints that this was an activist librarian. That would compromise the information provided Congress-critters from research requests. I've known Library researchers in previous eons, any direction to align with an ideology would be a disaster. She was fired nine years too late.
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That is where I suspect the problem came in.
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Some background, via an April 30 Daily Mail article:
"A conservative nonprofit is now targeting top officials in the Library of Congress, as President Donald Trump continues to search for 'deep-state' officials in the federal government.
The American Accountability Foundation is launching a campaign to highlight activities of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and Director of U.S. Copyright Office Shira Perlmutter, accusing them of acting as biased left-wing activists.
'The President and his team have done an admirable and long-needed job cleaning out deep state liberals from the federal government. It is time they show Carla Hayden and Shira Perlmutter the door and return an America First agenda to the nation's intellectual property regulation,' Tom Jones the president of the American Accountability Foundation told the Daily Mail.
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She also pointedly denounced attempts by parents to remove books about sexual identity targeted at young people from libraries.
Hayden wrote that librarians were 'trusted people' in the community and that it was important to have children's books on sexual identity to offer them.
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She urged individuals to go to school board and other public hearings to endorse using their tax dollars to support children's books featuring topics like sexual identity.
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Hayden also drew controversy for inviting musician Lizzo to play former President James Madison's crystal flute and take the historical instrument to a concert in 2022.
'B**h, I just twerked and played James Madison's crystal flute from the 1800s,' Lizzo boasted afterwards. 'We just made history tonight.' ..."
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Like Michael Brown, the 6' 4", 290+ lb, 18-year-old adult "unarmed black teen."
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Trump's first term taught him that he must do unto others before they can do unto him. The old guard can't be left in place to make mischief, or they will. He has probably not cleared out nearly enogh of them yet.
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