华盛顿——担任总统的官员唐纳德·特朗普在试图向工作人员施加压力，让他们透露有关的敏感信息后，美国司法部的耳目已被禁止进入该大楼选举三位知情人士告诉美联社，欺诈和其他问题她可以向白宫转达。
特朗普的高级顾问斯蒂芬·米勒(Stephen Miller)的盟友海蒂·斯特鲁普(Heidi Stirrup)几个月前悄悄地被安置在司法部，担任白宫联络员。在最高司法官员得知她努力收集关于正在进行的案件和司法部工作的内幕信息后，她在过去两周内被告知要离开这栋大楼选举人们说是欺诈。
知情人士说，斯特拉普被指控接触该部门的工作人员，要求他们向她提供调查信息，包括选举欺诈问题。他们要求匿名，因为他们无权公开讨论此事。
特朗普继续毫无根据地声称自己赢得了选举，并在没有证据的情况下声称大规模投票欺诈是他击败当选总统乔·拜登的原因。
其中一名知情人士说，斯特鲁普还在未与任何高级部门官员或白宫法律顾问办公室协商的情况下，向政治盟友提供了司法部一些最高级别职位的工作机会，并试图干预职业员工的招聘过程，这违反了政府的人力资源政策。
司法部拒绝置评。记者试图联系斯特拉普请其置评，但没有立即获得成功。
根据白宫的新闻稿，周四，特朗普任命斯特鲁普为美国空军学院游客委员会成员。
本周早些时候，司法部长威廉·巴尔(William Barr)告诉美联社(AP)，美国律师和联邦调查局(FBI)已经调查了对选举违规行为的指控，没有发现会改变选举结果的广泛投票欺诈的证据。
“迄今为止，我们还没有看到如此大规模的欺诈行为，可能会在选举中产生不同的结果，”他周二表示。
特朗普周四回击了巴尔，称司法部“看起来不太努力”，并称之为失望。但他没有暗示巴尔作为司法部长的未来可能会被缩短。
当被问及是否仍然对巴尔有信心时，特朗普说:“从现在起的几周内问我这个问题。”
“他们应该看看所有这些欺诈，”特朗普说。
他还批评巴尔的声明，即特朗普竞选团队及其盟友迄今提出的大部分内容都是属于诉讼的指控，而不是联邦犯罪。
“这不文明。这是犯罪行为。这是非常糟糕的犯罪行为，”特朗普说。
斯特鲁普此前是特朗普政府推行强硬移民政策的核心人物，从技术上来说，在被白宫总统人事办公室安排在司法部后，她仍保留着自己的职位。
特朗普政府一直在努力让联络员直接向白宫报告，而不是向他们工作的机构报告。在整个政府中，有人担心这些联系不仅削弱了职业专业人士的工作，也削弱了特朗普自己的政治任命。
选举后不久，总统人事办公室还指示联络员解雇任何正在寻找工作的政治任命者，而特朗普拒绝接受选举结果。特朗普的任期将于1月20日中午结束。届时，政府中数千名政治任命者的工作将结束。
白宫人事办公室由特朗普的前个人助理约翰·麦克恩特(John McEntee)领导，他再次推动特朗普清除那些被认为“对总统不忠诚”的政府人员。
9月，住房和城市发展部长本·卡森当摄像机捕捉到他在演讲中查阅的一页背面的文字时，无意中公开了他对麦克恩蒂的愤怒。
卡森在提到白宫总统人事办公室时指出:“我对多酚氧化酶处理我的机构的方式不满意。”这是整个政府都认同的观点。
米勒的亲密盟友斯特鲁普此前曾担任难民安置办公室代理主任，也是白宫卫生和公众服务部的副联络员。
Trump aide banned from Justice after trying to get case info
WASHINGTON -- The official serving as PresidentDonald Trump’s eyes and ears at the Justice Department has been banned from the building after trying to pressure staffers to give up sensitive information aboutelectionfraud and other matters she could relay to the White House, three people familiar with the matter tell The Associated Press.
Heidi Stirrup, an ally of top Trump adviser Stephen Miller, was quietly installed at the Justice Department as a White House liaison a few months ago. She was told within the last two weeks to vacate the building after top Justice officials learned of her efforts to collect insider information about ongoing cases and the department’s work onelectionfraud, the people said.
Stirrup is accused of approaching staffers in the department demanding they give her information about investigations, including election fraud matters, the people said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter.
The effort came as Trump continues to level baseless claims that he won the election and alleges without evidence that massive voting fraud was responsible for his defeat to President-elect Joe Biden.
Stirrup had also extended job offers to political allies for positions at some of the highest levels of the Justice Department without consulting any senior department officials or the White House counsel's office and also attempted to interfere in the hiring process for career staffers, a violation of the government's human resources policies, one of the people said.
The Justice Department declined to comment. Attempts to reach Stirrup for comment were not immediately successful.
On Thursday, Trump appointed Stirrup to be a member of the board of visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy, according to a White House press release.
Earlier this week, Attorney General William Barr told the AP that U.S. attorneys and the FBI had looked into allegations of election irregularities and found no evidence of widespread voting fraud that would change the outcome of the election.
“To date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election,” he said on Tuesday.
Trump shot back at Barr on Thursday, saying the Justice Department “hasn’t looked very hard" and calling it a disappointment. But he stopped short of implying Barr’s future as attorney general could be cut short.
“Ask me that in a number of weeks from now,” Trump said when asked if he still has confidence in Barr.
“They should be looking at all of this fraud,” Trump said.
He was also critical of Barr’s statement that much of what has been presented so far by the Trump campaign and its allies amounts to allegations that belong in lawsuits, not federal crimes.
“This is not civil. This is criminal stuff. This is very bad, criminal stuff,” Trump said.
Stirrup, who previously was a central figure in the Trump administration’s push for hard-line immigration policies, technically still remains in her position after being placed at the Justice Department by the White House Office of Presidential Personnel.
The Trump administration has been working to have liaisons report directly to the White House instead of the agencies where they work. Across the administration, there have been concerns that the liaisons were undercutting the work not just of career professionals but also of Trump’s own political appointees.
Shortly after the election, the presidential personnel office had also instructed the liaisons to fire any political appointees who were looking for jobs while Trump refused to accept the election results. Trump’s term ends at noon on Jan. 20. Several thousand political appointees across the government will see their jobs end by that date.
The White House personnel office has been headed by former Trump personal assistant John McEntee, who has renewed Trump’s push to rid the administration of those deemed “disloyal” to the president.
In September, Housing and Urban Development SecretaryBen Carsoninadvertently made public his anger with McEntee when cameras captured writing on the back of a page he was consulting during a speech.
In a reference to the White House Presidential Personnel Office, Carson’s notes said: “I am not happy with the way PPO is handling my agency.” It’s a sentiment that has been shared across the government.
Stirrup, a close ally of Miller, previously served as the acting director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement and was also a deputy White House liaison at the Department of Health and Human Services.
