Whistleblower doctor accuses DOJ of defying Trump with 'corrupt and insane' prosecution

A Texas physician, who may resist 10 years in jail for revealing that Texas Youngsters’s Hospital was allegedly conducting transgender procedures on minors in secret, has accused the U.S. Division of Justice of defying President Donald Trump’s govt order by persevering with his prosecution. 

Dr. Eithan Haim, 34, issued a prolonged, defiant assertion Wednesday on X, explaining he may “now not afford to remain silent.” His put up obtained 1 million views as of Thursday afternoon.

“I’m scheduled to go to trial in a number of weeks in a spot which has up till this level been nothing lower than a kangaroo courtroom. All the most simple guidelines have been violated in favor of a corrupted DOJ and all of it has come at the price of my constitutional rights,” Haim wrote.

I can now not to afford to remain silent.

I’m scheduled to go to trial in a number of weeks in a spot which has up till this level been nothing lower than a kangaroo courtroom. All the most simple guidelines have been violated in favor of a corrupted DOJ and all of it has come on the value… https://t.co/mVPux73aNl

— Eithan Haim MD (@EithanHaim) January 22, 2025

Haim dismissed the costs towards him as “utter fabrications” and “crimes which they haven’t outlined, which they’ve proven us no proof of, which nobody is aware of the premise for, and are utterly unprecedented in American historical past.”

Final June, the DOJ slapped Haim with 4 felony counts, alleging he “obtained private data together with affected person names, remedy codes and the attending doctor from Texas Youngsters’s Hospital’s digital system with out authorization,” in accordance with a DOJ press launch.

Haim, who’s now a basic surgeon within the Dallas space, went public after leaking paperwork to journalist Christopher Rufo from the Houston-based Texas Youngsters’s Hospital, the place he accomplished his surgical residency.

The paperwork, which redacted affected person’s identifiable data, reportedly confirmed the most important pediatric hospital within the U.S. was persevering with to conduct so-called “gender-affirming providers” on minors regardless of telling the general public it had paused such procedures after Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott labeled them as little one abuse.

Haim has maintained that he’s being focused for exposing and opposing what he has repeatedly described as “an evil ideology.”

In his put up on Wednesday, Haim cited Trump’s latest govt order titled “Ending The Weaponization Of The Federal Authorities,” which advises the legal professional basic to analyze and proper “politically motivated” exercise towards Individuals by the Division of Justice, the Securities and Trade Fee and the Federal Commerce Fee.

Haim recommended his ongoing prosecution is proof that Trump’s order just isn’t being obeyed.

“The Trump administration took workplace a number of days in the past and issued an Government Order to finish the weaponization of the DOJ towards its personal residents. However I can guarantee you that at the moment that weaponization is simply as alive because it was January nineteenth, 2025,” Haim stated.

“As a result of the appearing US Lawyer is working cowl whereas this weaponized prosecution is being accelerated behind closed doorways in direct violation of the President’s Government Order.”

Haim went on to claim that he was not backing down and wouldn’t “bend the knee to their corruption.”

Haim’s assertion on X was in response to a earlier one posted by his spouse, Andrea Haim, who serves as an assistant U.S. legal professional for the Northern District of Texas. She particularly referred to as out Jennifer Lowery, the appearing U.S. Lawyer for the Southern District of Texas, for defying Trump’s govt order by persevering with to prosecute her husband.

Lowery took over for Alamdar Hamdani, who signed the indictment towards Haim however resigned Jan. 9 in anticipation of a resignation request from the Trump administration, in accordance with Houston Touchdown.

Andrea Haim characterised the prosecution of her husband as “corrupt and insane.”

“Not solely have they refused to drop the case, in the previous few days, they’ve ACCELERATED their prosecution forward of trial on Feb 10. They’re making an attempt to bleed us dry, and make no mistake, they may attempt to take him to trial and put him in jail for 10 years if they are not stopped,” Andrea Haim wrote.

????That is the brand new appearing US Lawyer for the Southern District of Texas, Jennifer Lowery. She and her district are nonetheless weaponizing the DOJ in contravention of President Trump’s Day 1 govt order. They’re persevering with the corrupt and insane prosecution of my husband… pic.twitter.com/zV0DSjbGW7

— Andrea Haim (@AndreaCohenHaim) January 22, 2025

“The President’s order particularly calls out the Biden DOJ’s weaponized persecution of those that criticized their insurance policies (which included their unwavering assist for transgender procedures on kids),” Haim continued, noting that her husband’s scenario has already drawn the assist of Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., in addition to some members of Congress.

“Eithan will threat federal jail for 10 years, dropping years of his life along with his new daughter, and having his medical license taken away. Each day this prosecution continues drives us even deeper into chapter 11. President Trump could also be in workplace, however for now, the weaponization of the federal authorities continues to be very a lot alive,” Andrea Haim added.

The Christian Put up has reached out to the U.S. Lawyer’s workplace within the Southern District of Texas for remark.

Haim’s authorized protection fund, which initially had a objective of $1 million, has raised greater than $1.2 million. He faces a trial date of Feb. 10, and, if convicted, may very well be sentenced as much as 10 years in jail and as much as $250,000 in fines.