Whoa, it’s been so busy lately I didn’t even take note of the fact that Monday marked exactly one week since Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the 47^th president of the United States—and oh, what a week it’s been. It would take another entire separate article—a long one—to detail all the moves the new administration has made and the changes they’ve effected in such a short time.

That being said, here are a few: the acting attorney general fired around a dozen staffers of former Special Counsel Jack Smith, the TDS-riddled, failed former special counsel; the new president got in a staring contest with Columbia over repatriating illegal aliens here in the U.S., and Columbia blinked; Border Czar Tom Homan has begun the massive effort to send illegal aliens back to their home countries; Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was confirmed along with other Trump Cabinet picks… the list goes on. And on.

And nowhere will the winds of change be felt more clearly than at the Department of Justice. Although Trump’s attorney general pick Pam Bondi and his FBI choice Kash Patel have not yet been confirmed, transformation is already happening. 

Of course, not everybody likes change, as Politico reports. Pull out your cryin' hankie:

Career lawyers and staff at the Department of Justice say the rush of changes in the first week of the Trump administration make them feel like they’re under siege.

President Donald Trump’s acting attorney general fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on the criminal cases against Trump, reassigned senior personnel across major divisions and dramatically shifted workplace rules — all in a matter of days.

Even as the moves followed through on vows Trump made on the campaign trail to remake the department under his vision, the swift action still took staffers by surprise.

“It feels like a non-violent war. It’s just wild. Everybody’s a sitting duck and these people have no power or control over the situation,” said one DOJ career employee. “People are just in a state of shock and devastated. It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen … Nothing that happened during the first Trump administration came anywhere close to this.”

🚨 DOJ prosecutors involved in the cases against President @realDonaldTrump are fired effective immediately pic.twitter.com/e8mGKtK03F

— Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) January 27, 2025

An English friend of mine once used to say, “My heart pumps peanuts.” It’s an odd phrase, and yet it perfectly sums up my sympathies for a whole lot of these deep-state operatives—meaning, I have none. Between the DOJ’s lawfare against Trump, Catholics, parents, pro-life supporters, and anyone who was anywhere near the Capitol on J6, they betrayed the trust of the American people, and if they’re feeling nervous about the new reality, I say suck on it.

Here are reportedly some of their tearful gripes:

Trump’s blanket pardons of Jan. 6 rioters, which wiped out years of work [oh you poor darlings], demoralized some already anxious staff. So did the sharp shifts in DOJ’s prosecution policies, including a broad halt to litigation by Justice’s Civil Rights Division. But employees say the firings of more than a dozen attorneys who worked for special counsel Jack Smith, the transfers of veteran national-security prosecutors and a call by a Trump appointee for Jan. 6 prosecutors to turn over their files for special review have been more disruptive than any policy changes.

Hee hee. 

Of course, some sad sack Biden holdovers had plenty of more complaints—how dare you make me come into the office and actually work?!—but you get the idea.

It’s time for a deep cleaning of the DOJ, and if some of those who participated in the perversion of the department’s mission during the Obama-Biden-Harris-Garland eras are freaking out, then that makes me glad.

Change is hard.