Purge
2017
2017-05-01 Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. Comey led the investigation on the Russian interference case during the 2016 election.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dismissal_of_James_Comey
2025 February
2025-02-10 Trump fired the head of the independent Office of Government Ethics David Huitema.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-office-of-government-ethics-director/
2025-02-21 General Charles Q. Brown was dismissed as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as part of the Trump DEI initiative.
2025 March
2025-03-27 Trump withdrew Elise Stefanik’s UN ambassador nomination. Trump posted in Truth Social that it was “essential that we maintain EVERY Republican Seat in Congress”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114235745233828789
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rnge7ql7wo
2025 April
2025-04-01 Kathleen Sgamma withdrew her nomination as lead of the Bureau of Land Management after a watchdog group published a 2021 memo in which she criticized Trump’s actions related to the January 6 Capitol riot.
https://www.cpr.org/2025/04/10/sgamma-withdraws-bureau-of-land-management-nomination/
2025-04-17 Trump posted on social media calling Jerome Powell “too late” on lowering interest rates and that his “termination cannot come fast enough”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114352766082542122
https://econclubchi.org/event/hon-jerome-h-powell/
2025 May
2025-05-08 Trump fired acting administrator Cameron Hamilton from FEMA one day after testifying to Congress that he did not support efforts to dismantle the agency.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/08/fired-fema-chief-relationship-trump-officials-00548907
2025-05-08 Trump had Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden fired on the 9th of her 10-year term as part of his DEI initiative. Carla Hayden received her termination by email from a low-level employee.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5393737/carla-hayden-fired-library-of-congress-trump
2025-05-10 According to AI, Trump terminated Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models. Trump replaced her with his personal lawyer Todd Blanche.
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5395879/trump-todd-blanche-librarian-congress
2025-05-31 Trump withdrew Jared Isaacman’s nomination to be the NASA administrator for a “misalignment” with the administration’s “America First” agenda.
2025 July
2025-07-11 Pam Bondi fired the Justice Department’s top ethics advisor Joseph Tirrell. For context, Joseph Tirrell wanted to investigate Kash Patel for accepting luxury gift items from Connor McGregor because accepting those luxury items violated the FBI ethics codes.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/trump-justice-department-purge-top-ethics-adviser/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/attorney-general-pam-bondi-fires-top-justice-department/story?id=123746598
2025 August
2025-08-01 Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics chief Erika McEntarfer because he didn’t like the job market report. He replaced her with William Wiatrowski, then nominated Heritage Foundation economist EJ Antoni.
https://www.epi.org/policywatch/firing-bls-commissioner-erika-mcentarfer/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/16/economy/former-bls-commissioner-mcentarfer-speaks
2025-08-07 Brian Driscoll, Stephen Jensen and Spencer Evans were fired from the FBI by Kash Patel for no known reason.
2025-08-27 Robert Primus was fired from the Surface Transportation Board during a Union Pacific merger with no cause except that he “didn’t align” with the “America First” agenda.
2025-08-27 Trump attempted to fire Lisa Cook, who sits on the rate-setting committee. Trump accused Cook of mortgage fraud, but Reuters posted an analysis of documents some analysts claim refute the claims.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Cook
2025-08-27 RFK fired Susan Monarez from the CDC after she refused to “rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives”.
https://www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/20250828_cdc-firing_release/
https://x.com/HHSGov/status/1960818490614415869
2025-08-28 RFK appointed biotechnology investor Jim O’Neill to head the CDC. According to AI overview, O’Neill is a long-time advocate of deregulation and support for unproven therapies.
2025 September
2025-09-04 During a confirmation hearing, Senator Elizabeth Warren grilled RFK about his rationale for firing Susan Monarez from the CDC. RFK stated Susan Monarez was not “trustworthy”.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1308517864182421
2025-09-09 Former FBI leaders Brian Driscoll, Stephen Jensen and Spencer Evans alleged that their firings were both illegal and politically motivated.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/politics/fired-fbi-officials-sue-kash-patel
2025-09-15 Federal Prosecutor Maurene Comey sued the Trump administration for her sudden termination in July while she worked on the Epstein case. She stated her firing was for political reasons.
https://apnews.com/article/justice-department-maurene-comey-trump-23fb32ac0e4402873862d3ca6d31d18e
2025-09-17 Susan Monarez testified that RFK told her to commit to decisions in advance.
2025-09-19 Erik Seibert resigned after Trump pressured him to bring criminal charges against Letitia James. Trump planned to replace Seibert with Lindsey Halligan from his personal legal team. Lindsey Halligan is also in charge of removing “improper ideology” from Smithsonian museums. A news outlet reported that Halligan’s arrival to the position was rushed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/us/politics/trump-lindsey-halligan-james-comey.html
2025-09-26 Former FBI director James Comey was indicted on two charges after Trump publicly pressured Bondi into prosecuting him and two other adversaries.
2025 November
2025-11-03 News outlets reported that Kash Patel lashed out after they uncovered his use of a government jet to visit his 26-year-old girlfriend. Right after the story was uncovered, Patel fired 27-year veteran for the FBI critical incident response group Steven Palmer. For context, one of the tasks of the critical incident response group is to oversee the fleet of jets.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/02/fbi-fires-top-official-kash-patel-jet-use
2025-11-17 A federal judge dismissed the case against former FBI director James Comey and new York Attorney General Leticia James after finding that the prosecutor Lindsey Halligan was illegally appointed.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/17/lindsey-halligan-indictment-james-comey-00654224
2025-11-19 David Maltinsky, a 16-year FBI veteran, filed a lawsuit for being fired in October 2025. He was fired for displaying a Pride flag.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-lawsuit-employee-fired-pride-flag/
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/politics/veteran-fbi-employee-sues-fired-pride-flag