Trump’s new target: Microsoft head of global affairs Lisa Monaco

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco speaks during an Election Threats Task Force gathering astatine the Justice Department connected September 4, 2024.

After successfully manipulating Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and yet failing to cancel Jimmy Kimmel, President Donald Trump has named his adjacent people for retribution: Microsoft caput of planetary affairs Lisa Monaco. He’s calling for her to beryllium fired.

On Truth Social, Trump claims that Monaco, who just took the occupation successful May and lone announced publically a period ago, is “corrupt,” “deranged,” “a menace to U.S. nationalist security,” and different forms of badmouthing, but it seems her biggest transgression successful Trump’s eyes is having worked as the 39th Deputy Attorney General of the United States nether President Biden and AG Merrick Garland. Garland was successful complaint of the national prosecution of Trump.

Trump writes that he’s already stripped Monaco of information clearances, but suggests that her relation astatine Microsoft present lets her entree “Highly Sensitive Information.”

It’s not wide wherefore Trump took this infinitesimal to spell aft Monaco, but it’s imaginable he’s conscionable present becoming alert of her Microsoft role. CNBC notes that Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo posted astir Monaco’s caller job conscionable past night.

Microsoft has not precisely been successful Trump’s crosshairs, arsenic CEO Satya Nadella has continued to buss the ring, but yesterday, the institution did yet reduce the scope of its practice with the Israeli military arsenic it performs wide surveillance of Palestinian civilians. Microsoft had been firing workers who protested and occupied its president’s office. Microsoft was besides probably not happy astir the caller $100,000 interest for H-1B visas.