A lawyer who previously worked for Kamala Harris and Joe Biden—and even penned an op-ed declaring Donald Trump “unfit to hold office”—is now operating from inside President Trump’s Pentagon as a so-called “non-political” staffer.
Samantha Goldstein, a Biden loyalist and Harris staff alum, is now holding a high-ranking legal position in the Trump Department of Defense.
Goldstein, who was embedded deep within the Biden regime’s National Security Council until February, transitioned into the Pentagon this year under the guise of being a “career” official. But her past reveals a deeply partisan record and clear anti-Trump animus.
According to a bombshell report from The Daily Signal, Goldstein previously served as senior counsel in Biden’s DOJ, as special counsel to then-Senator Kamala Harris, and even interned at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
In 2019, she co-authored a Washington Post op-ed with former Clinton administration official Walter Dellinger declaring that Trump and his team “failed to defend the United States” and were therefore “unfit to hold office.”
Let that sink in: the same woman who publicly accused President Trump of betraying the Constitution is now working inside the very Department of Defense he commands.
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Goldstein graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2013, and clerked for two U.S. appeals courts: the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. She interned with the left-leaning NAACP Legal Defense Fund in 2016 and served as a special counsel for Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., in 2018. Between these two positions and before she joined the Justice Department, Goldstein worked at the firm O’Melveny & Myers. Legistorm confirms this history.
During her second stint at O’Melveny, Goldstein wrote a Washington Post op-ed with Walter Dellinger, a partner at O’Melveny who had worked in the Clinton administration. (Trump fired Dellinger’s son Hampton, who had served as the special counsel in the Office of Special Counsel, earlier this year, sparking a legal battle.) In that op-ed, Goldstein and Dellinger insisted that Trump is “unfit to hold office.”
“In the face of an unprecedented attack on American democracy by a hostile foreign power, Donald Trump and those who worked for him both as a candidate and a president failed to defend the United States,” they wrote regarding Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report into accusations of collusion between Trump and Russia. “For this alone, he is unfit to hold office.”
Golstein and Dellinger wrote that the Mueller report “demonstrates that the president and his closest aides violated … fundamental duties imposed by their oaths of office,” namely the duty to protect and defend the Constitution “against all enemies foreign and domestic.”
