President Donald Trump declared Friday that Microsoft needs to fire Lisa Monaco, the company’s president of global affairs.
Citing her roles as “a senior National Security aide under Barack Hussein Obama, and a Lawfare and Weaponization obsessed Deputy Attorney General under Crooked Joe Biden and Lisa’s Puppet ‘Boss’ Attorney General Merrick Garland,” Trump posted on Truth Social that Monaco’s current role gives her access to “Highly Sensitive Information,” which he deemed “unacceptable.”
“It is my opinion that Microsoft should immediately terminate the employment of Lisa Monaco,” he wrote.
As Trump noted, Monaco worked with both Barack Obama and Joe Biden, including as a deputy attorney general under the Biden administration. Trump rescinded Monaco’s security clearance earlier this year, in the an order that did the same for Biden, Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, and the Biden family.
TechCrunch has reached out to Microsoft for comment. Monaco joined the company in May, taking on a role that oversees the company’s cybersecurity policy, as well as its relationships with world governments.
Far-right activist and Trump ally Laura Loomer has repeatedly complained on X about Microsoft hiring Monaco, including in a post noting that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was “born in India” and accusing him of “disgraceful scammer behavior.” On Friday, Loomed triumphantly quoted Trump’s post and again called on the president to “cancel all of Microsoft’s government contracts.”
This isn’t the first time Trump has targeted a tech executive since returning to office. He previously said that Intel President Lip-Bu Tan must “resign immediately” over alleged conflicts of interest. Then, after Intel gave the government a 10% stake in exchange for funding already committed by the Biden administration, Trump described Tan as a “Highly Respected Chief Executive Officer.”
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