Simply days after firing radical Obama appointee Carla Hayden — the embattled Librarian of Congress accused of injecting far-left gender ideology into kids’s supplies — Trump has now terminated U.S. Copyright Workplace Director Shira Perlmutter, the highest-ranking copyright official within the nation.
The Gateway Pundit beforehand reported that watchdog group American Accountability Basis (AAF) demanded that each Hayden and Perlmutter be eliminated for utilizing their taxpayer-funded positions to push progressive dogma as a substitute of defending mental property and American values.
“The President and his group have achieved an admirable and long-needed job cleansing out deep state liberals from the federal authorities,” AAF instructed the Every day Mail in late April.
“It’s time they present Carla Hayden and Shira Perlmutter the door and return an America First agenda to the nation’s mental property regulation.”
And that’s precisely what President Trump simply did.
President Trump abruptly fired the Democrat Librarian of Congress on Thursday.
Hayden, appointed by Obama in 2016, made historical past as the primary black lady to function Librarian of Congress — however conservatives argue her legacy is certainly one of radicalism, not scholarship. Underneath her watch, the Library of Congress turned a platform for leftist id politics, together with drag queen story hours, LGBTQ+ kids’s literature showcases, and DEI initiatives laced with CRT buzzwords.
Now, Trump has fired her hand-picked protégé: Shira Perlmutter, Director of the U.S. Copyright Workplace.
In accordance with Politico, Perlmutter was knowledgeable Saturday afternoon that her place had been “terminated,” efficient instantly.
In accordance with the Every day Mail:
Hayden appointed Shira Perlmutter because the Director of U.S. Copyright Workplace in 2020 which has additionally raised issues from activists as she made intensive political donations to former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama and New York Democratic senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer.
The group raised issues about Perlmutter’s help for European-style on-line censorship and endorsing a ‘three strikes’ rule for people downloading copyrighted materials on the web.
‘Good issues are starting to return to move’ because of the draconian rule, she defined at a discussion board, previous to her appointment within the copyright workplace.
Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY), the highest Democrat on the Home Administration Committee, fumed that the firing of Perlmutter was “no coincidence” and blamed Trump for performing in retaliation after Perlmutter reportedly refused to “rubber-stamp” tech billionaire Elon Musk’s capacity to make use of publicly accessible works to coach AI fashions.
Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented energy seize with no authorized foundation.
It’s absolutely no coincidence he acted lower than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to…
— Joe Morelle (@RepJoeMorelle) Might 10, 2025
