The Trump administration is pretending that Carla Hayden, the just-fired Librarian of Congress lost her job because she was promoting “inappropriate books for children.” But the Library of Congress is a research library that has NOTHING to do with promoting books, children’s or otherwise. You have to be 16 or older just to use it.
Hayden was appointed to her position by then-President Barack Obama in 2016. Her term would have expired next year. But Trump and his white supremacist puppet masters, Elon Musk and Stephen Miller, felt an urgent need to be rid of Hayden now. She also just happens to be the first Black person and first woman to hold the job.
The administration was in such a hurry, it couldn’t even be bothered to come up with a real reason. Hayden was fired via email by Trent Morse, deputy director of presidential personnel, on Thursday. He merely stated, “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as the Librarian of Congress is terminated effective immediately.”
