An attorney helping President-elect Trump plan for the transition at the Justice Department said Monday that career employees opposed to his vision for the agency should leave. Mark Paoletta

Those employees who engage in so-called ‘resistance’ against the duly-elected President’s lawful agenda would be subverting American democracy," Paoletta wrote on the social media platform, X.

Donald Trump's election victory of Vice President Kamala Harris already has staffers at the Justice Department planning their exits, fearful they will either be fired because they are not considered loyal to him or because they want no part of what is expected to be a wave of investigations of his enemies.