Trump’s Illegal Library Appointees Blocked From Entering The Building

Kudos to the folks at the Library of Congress. They showed the courage and cojones billionaires with a lot more clout failed to muster.

You may recall that Felon 47 recently fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden with a trumped up excuse. Since then, President Please Bribe Me, who probably hasn’t read a book since high school, if even then, also fired the director of the Copyright Office. Then Trump declared Todd Blanche, his former personal attorney and now the deputy attorney general, as the acting librarian. Two other DOJ officials were declared deputy librarian and acting director of the Copyright Office. They were Brian Nieves and Paul Perkins, respectively.

But those plucky workers at the Library of Congress knew a Trump con when they saw one and refused to be bamboozled. More specifically, they refused to allow Nieves and Perkins to enter the building:

From The New York Times:

Around 9 a.m. [on Monday], the two Justice Department officials arrived at the library’s James Madison Memorial Building and sought access to the U.S. Copyright Office, which is housed there. They brought a letter from the White House declaring that Mr. Blanche was the acting librarian and that he had selected the two men for top roles at the agency.

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