If you ever wondered what kind of person could work as a “deep state” actor, taking a paycheck from the taxpayer while opposing the people’s elected president from within the bureaucracy, look no further than Sean Charles Dunn.
This 37-year-old worked as an international affairs specialist at the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, yet he allegedly struck a Customs and Border Protection agent with a Subway sandwich on Sunday after shouting, “Fascists!”
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Thursday that Dunn was out of a job, and that he faces felony charges.
“This is an example of the Deep State we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus DOJ,” she noted. “You will NOT work in this administration while disrespecting our government and law enforcement.”
It seems rather odd that the same people who are shouting from the rooftops that federal bureaucrats are noble servants of the public—so how dare President Donald Trump fire them!—also encourage lawless resistance to the will of the people, who elected Trump to close the border, deport the illegal aliens, and bring law and order back to cities like Washington, D.C.
Lest Americans forget, Trump repeatedly promised on the campaign trail to “rebuild our cities—including our capital in Washington, D.C.—making them safe, clean, and beautiful again.”
Yet when the American people vote to make D.C. great again, the Left screams to high heaven about creeping “fascism.”
It’s not fascism to actually arrest criminals. It’s not fascism to deport illegal aliens. It’s not fascism to restore peace to American cities.
So many on the Left live in such a bubble that they have no concept of how fed up Americans are with the rampant looting, the illegals driving mopeds without license plates, the teens skipping subway turnstiles, and the homeless vagrants crowding the sidewalks.
I live in the D.C. area, and in recent years, my best friend was robbed at gunpoint in the nation’s capital. My female co-workers were scared to drive past a certain intersection because homeless men would cat-call them. At that intersection, one homeless man threw another into the street right in front of my car, and I had to jam on my breaks to avoid slamming into him.
Stores like CVS have everyday items like cold medicine locked behind glass doors because the crime is so bad.
It doesn’t have to be this way, and Americans voted for change in November.
Yet the Left’s echo chamber finds any reason to demonize Trump, and it can be hard to escape that narrative, even if you want to. The legacy media strains to find any outrage when it comes to deporting illegal aliens—never mind the millions who poured across the border under the previous administration.
The negative media coverage gets a tremendous boost from the organized Left. Groups like the American Civil Liberties Union find any excuse to prevent Trump from deporting illegal aliens, suing to block his policies and turning every law enforcement action into a sob story.
The Center for American Progress, which fed 60 staff into the Biden administration, now hypocritically calls for “securing the border” despite its own record encouraging Biden to treat immigration “as an asset to be managed rather than a crime to be enforced against.” It demonizes Trump’s “chaos and cruelty” without giving an ounce of credit to the man who has actually secured the border.
Add in the groups that organize protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement in cities like Los Angeles, and you’ve got real trouble on your hands.
These activist groups are more entrenched than you may realize. The nonprofits that sued the Trump administration in its first month received at least $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds under Biden.
Sean Charles Dunn had likely been hearing a stream of anti-Trump news on immigration, and after Trump deployed federal law enforcement to Washington, D.C., it seems Dunn just snapped.
It isn’t just Dunn. An April RMG Research poll found that 75% of D.C.-based federal employees who voted for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in November said they won’t follow a lawful Trump order if they consider it bad policy.
These deep state bureaucrats think they know better than the American people and the leaders voters elect, and they’re listening to “experts” that rile them up.
Trump has given these bureaucrats an off-ramp. He offered deferred resignation—agreeing to pay them through the end of the fiscal year (Sept. 30) if they resigned early this year. It seems Dunn should have taken the offer.
Unfortunately, the mindset of seeing border patrol agents as “fascist” won’t end with Dunn, and many of former President Joe Biden’s political appointees have “burrowed in” to the bureaucracy and remain under Trump.
As horrifying as this story is, I expect it won’t be the last time a bureaucrat faces charges for brazenly assaulting an officer. Bondi’s response sends the right message: It cannot be tolerated.