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Top Justice Department Official Canned Paralegal After Anti-Trump Protest
The head of the Antitrust Division chose not to renew a paralegal’s contract after she protested against separation of immigrant families, emails show.
Kelly Weill
09.26.18 5:46 AM ET
A U.S. assistant attorney general personally intervened to end a paralegal’s work at the Justice Department after she protested a Trump administration official, emails reviewed by The Daily Beast show.
Paralegal Allison Hrabar participated in a June protest against Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, led by the Democratic Socialists of America.
Hrabar’s protest led to an internal DOJ investigation, which found that she had not committed misconduct.
But the head of the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim, dismissed the investigation’s conclusion and declined to extend Hrabar’s contract, according to communications reviewed by The Daily Beast.
Right-wing media have implied that Hrabar was let go because of a sting video by Project Veritas, a conservative outlet, but the DOJ moved not to renew her contract before the video was released.
Hrabar, 24, was among a group of DSA members who interrupted Nielsen’s dinner at a Mexican restaurant on June 19, in protest at the forcible separation of immigrant families by DHS.
Hrabar later spoke to the media about the protest, which earned her unwanted attention from the right, where observers learned of her employment with the DOJ and speculated that she was part of a nebulous “deep state” working against President Donald Trump.
Someone tried to report one of her pro-immigrant tweets as violating federal law against misuse of government resources, Hrabar told The Daily Beast in an exclusive interview.
“My employer got phone calls,” she said. “I got some death threats.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/top-justice-department-official-personally-ousted-anti-trump-worker?via=newsletter&source=DDMorning
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