President Donald Trump demanded that Microsoft, which has several government contracts handling sensitive data, “immediately terminate” Lisa Monaco as president of global affairs.
Monaco was a deputy attorney general under former President Joe Biden.
She played a key role in prosecuting Trump and other January 6 defendants, the New York Post reported.
The president said Friday that Monaco is a “menace to U.S. National Security” in part because she’s privy to “Highly Sensitive Information” in her position.
Although it would not normally be appropriate for a president to interfere in a private corporation, Monaco’s position in the company and her history of actively working against Trump call into question her fitness to continue.
The 57-year-old served as White House homeland security and counter terrorism adviser under then-President Barack Obama from 2013 to 2017.
She joined the Biden administration and served as the second-in-command at the Department of Justice from 2021 to 2025.
During that time, she was involved in several legal actions against Trump, including the classified documents case and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into election interference.
Trump views this as evidence that Monaco has a proven vendetta against him and should be removed from Microsoft in light of its