Kamala Harris Humiliated Again as Trump Boots Her Husband From Council

President Trump removed former Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council on Tuesday, his 100th day in office, along with other Biden nominees.

Emhoff’s dismissal carries extra weight because the Biden administration had appointed him to spearhead its “strategy” against antisemitism—a diluted plan that retreated from prior commitments to label extreme anti-Israel rhetoric as antisemitic and failed to curb anti-Jewish hostility following the October 7, 2023, Hamas terror attacks on Israel, which spurred a surge in antisemitic protests and assaults.

“Today, I was informed of my removal from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council,” Emhoff said in a statement on Tuesday, per The New York Times. “Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized. To turn one of the worst atrocities in history into a wedge issue is dangerous — and it dishonors the memory of six million Jews murdered by Nazis that this museum was created to preserve.”

Other officials removed include Ron Klain, President Biden’s first chief of staff; Tom Perez, his former labor secretary and senior adviser; Susan Rice, who served as national security adviser under President Obama and later as Biden’s top domestic policy adviser leading a largely ineffective anti-antisemitism strategy; and Anthony Bernal, a senior adviser to First Lady Jill Biden, the Times reported.

Trump has been able to oust many Biden appointees from councils and offices because the Biden administration had earlier removed Trump’s own first-term appointees, such as former press secretary Sean Spicer. That purge, upheld by the Supreme Court, set the precedent Trump is now following.

“Now all of these Biden appointees are paying the price for what Biden did,” Spicer said.

Shortly after taking office in January, Trump fired several department inspectors general, drawing the ire of Democrats and questions from some Republicans.

The president axed 17 independent watchdogs at various federal agencies via email as he began to move at breakneck speed in his reshaping of the federal government, Fox News reported.

Inspectors general at the Defense Department, State Department, Energy Department, Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Department of Veterans Affairs, and others were terminated in what one of the former inspectors general said was “a widespread massacre” in an interview with the Washington Post.

Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that the actions taken by the president might violate federal law, which states that Congress must be given a 30-day notice before an inspector general is terminated.

“There may be good reason the IGs were fired. We need to know that if so,” the senator told the Associated Press. “I’d like further explanation from President Trump. Regardless, the 30-day detailed notice of removal that the law demands was not provided to Congress.”

Trump defended his actions during a flight to Florida when he was asked about it on Air Force One.

“It’s a very common thing to do,” he said.

“I don’t know them,” the president said. “But some people thought that some were unfair or some were not doing their job. It’s a very standard thing to do.”

He said that he would put new people in the roles but that they would stay independent.

“They’re not my people,” the president said. “I don’t know anybody that would do that. But we’ll put people in there that will be very good.”

However, his assurance did not assuage the concerns of Democrats, many of whom were incensed by his decision.

Led by Rep. Gerald E. Connolly of Virginia, a group of Democrats penned a letter to the president insisting that he rehire the same inspectors general.

“Firing inspectors general without due cause is antithetical to good government, undermines the proper stewardship of taxpayer dollars, and degrades the federal government’s ability to function effectively and efficiently. We urge you to withdraw your unlawful action and comply with your obligations to the American people,” the ranking Democrats on the various committees who saw their inspectors general axed said.