A lawyer on the Division of Justice’s Inspector Common workplace faces questions after a social media account bearing her identify endorsed posts berating President Donald Trump and Republicans and praising Democrats.
Inspector Common legal professionals are historically sober nonpartisan professionals however a report from The Federalist uncovered blatantly partisan social media exercise and donations from Deborah Zerwitz, one of many highest paid legal professionals within the constructing.
Zerwitz, a former counsel to President Barack Obama’s former Assistant Legal professional Common Leslie Caldwell, is presently working to take down former DOJ officers who served below Legal professional Common Invoice Barr and opened a probe into deaths at nursing properties throughout the coronavirus pandemic.Â
Nevertheless, her intensions is probably not completely nonpolitical. Â
Zerwitz has made 35 separate political donations to Democrats since 2007 together with the Biden marketing campaign, based on the report. Â
DailyMail.com investigated a social media account on X with Zerwitz’s identify on it that was created in 2019 that has a protracted historical past of liking posts attacking Trump and Republicans.Â
The account with Zerwitz’s identify has not posted content material on X, however an inventory of 1,340 likes on the account illustrate a profile of a deeply upset partisan Democrat after President Trump took workplace.  Â
Some posts ‘preferred’ by the accounts together with her identify on them known as for Individuals to ‘ship Donald Trump packing’ and ‘boot his Republican enablers out of workplace – at each stage of presidency.’
Different posts celebrated Biden’s victory over Trump in 2020, and praising Biden political appointees. Different likes featured posts praising New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Hillary Clinton, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and condemned Republicans within the Senate such Chuck Grassley, Josh Hawley, Ron Johnson, John Cornyn, and Ted Cruz.
Different social media likes included posts attacking Trump political appointees like Legal professional Common Invoice Barr together with one which mentioned ‘not a single profession prosecutor at DOJ will miss Invoice Barr.’Â
She additionally preferred a submit from Washington Submit columnist Jennifer Rubin criticizing Legal professional Common Invoice Barr, demanding that legal professionals ‘stroll out en masse’ in protest of his actions whereas in workplace.Â
Different social media likes included posts attacking Trump political appointees like Legal professional Common Invoice Barr


One submit endorsed by Zerwitz referred to ‘Trump and his racist homophobic cult members’ protesting their music selections on the marketing campaign path.
Posts endorsed by Zerwitz embrace notes describing Hakeem Jeffries as ‘the Republican Social gathering’s worst nightmare,’ and fawning reward over the best way Pelosi eats a Slim Jim.
‘Nancy Pelosi unwrapping a Slim Jim together with her enamel and consuming it whereas on the cellphone dealing with the riot is probably the most bad-ass multitasking I’ve ever seen,’ learn one submit endorsed by Zerwitz.

She ‘preferred’ posts about how Nancy Pelosi eats Slim Jims


Zerwitz additionally preferred posts that includes Kamala Harris, together with one praising the best way she walked down a flight of airplane stairs. Â
One submit preferred by Zerwitz featured a pre-debate meme shared by late night time host Jimmy Kimmel portraying Mike Pence because the cannibal Hannibal Lector and Harris as actress Jodie Foster within the film Silence of the Lambs. Â



Surprisingly, Zerwitz additionally endorses posts in regards to the Hatch Act, demonstrating she had some data of the correct public exercise for a authorities legal professional, at the same time as she was partaking in partisan conduct.
Zerwitz endorsed a submit from Elizabeth Warren urging voters to ‘ship Donald Trump packing’ and purge the federal government of his supporters.
‘We have to boot his Republican enablers out of workplace – at each stage of presidency,’ Warren added.
Different posts presumably referring to Trump had been extra direct.
‘I f***king hate him,’ learn one submit endorsed by Zerwitz.
She additionally endorsed a submit telling Trump’s legal professionals to ‘go f**okay your self and die.’
‘If it walks like a bunch of f**kers and it talks like a bunch of f**kers it’s a bunch of f**kers,’ learn one other submit that she endorsed.Â
Zerwitz didn’t reply to a request for remark.Â



The stories of partisan exercise from Justice Division legal professionals raised considerations from the Home Oversight Committee, as Chairman James Comer vowed to analyze.Â
‘We can’t permit unelected bureaucrats to weaponize their positions in authorities with out consequence,’ he mentioned in a press release to DailyMail.com.Â
‘The Home Oversight Committee will proceed to conduct oversight to make sure Inspectors Common and their workers function in a nonpartisan method to root out waste, fraud, and abuse within the federal authorities.’