The day after the presidential election, as Donald Trump basked in his victory, a person at the Department of Veterans Affairs sent a dire warning to officials in the U.S. Office of Special Counsel.
Under the incoming Trump administration, the person believed, “federal employees will be made to make an oath of fealty to Donny the Felon,” a person with an official VA.gov email address wrote on Nov. 6, 2024. “We will be forced to undergo ‘Leadership Training’ designed to indoctrinate into the new administration’s litmus test of loyalty. IF and WHEN this occurs, when I am forced to pledge or lose my (OUR) job(s) — what do I do?”
The author with the VA.gov email address concluded: “These are not idle concerns of a crack pot. This is a serios [sic] concern that needs immediate attention and response as to safe guard federal employees from being pressed into a morally/legally compromising situation.”