Last June, we reported on the prosecution of Dr. Eithan Haim, a resident at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. Dr. Haim contacted Christopher Rufo, a journalist who covers cultural Marxism in America, telling Rufo that the hospital had lied about terminating its transgender “medicine” program, and that doctors were, in fact, continuing to sexually mutilate children as young as 11.
Rufo published an explosive story in City Journal, and within two days, the Texas Legislature had passed a bill making it illegal to perform transgender surgeries and administer sex-blocking hormones to minors. Rufo published a second piece showing how Texas Children’s Hospital was fraudulently billing Medicaid for gender treatments.
But the Marxist cabal then ruling in the name of a demented former senator from Delaware had weaponized the federal prosecutorial power against anyone opposing their satanic agenda. They indicted Dr. Haim, trying to make him a political prisoner, as they did thousands of other political enemies. Dr. Haim was facing 10 years in prison and $250,000 in fines.
One of President Trump’s first executive orders was to end the weaponization of government against conservatives and Christians. But, of course, it will take more than a presidential proclamation to reverse the policy of Stalinist legal persecution—"lawfare,” using the legal system to wage war on one’s political enemies—that has become very deeply embedded at the so-called “Department of Justice” over the last four years. It will take a lot of people complaining publicly and loudly—and that is just what Dr. Haim and his wife did.
“The Trump administration took office a few days ago and issued an Executive Order to end the weaponization of the DOJ against its own citizens. But I can assure you that today that weaponization is just as alive as it was January 19th, 2025," Haim said.
"Because the acting US Attorney is running cover while this weaponized prosecution is being accelerated behind closed doors in direct violation of the President's Executive Order,” posted Haim, noting that he was not backing down and would not “bend the knee to their corruption.”
Dr. Haim’s wife, Andrea Haim, who serves as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Texas, also called out the acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas for defying Trump's executive order by continuing to prosecute her husband. Senators Cruz and Hawley also called for the prosecution to be dropped.
The publicity worked, and Haim’s case has been dismissed with prejudice, the order having been signed by John P. Pearson, a federal judge in Houston, earlier today.
Christopher Rufo, who has been the single most important force in resisting the tide of DEI, including convincing Donald Trump and his closest advisors to end the policy within the federal government, recently went public regarding the attacks on himself and his family during the past four years. Rufo is exemplary in fighting back against the bullies who went after his wife and children; more Americans need to display that kind of spine. Here is his post from a couple of days ago:
They're going to try to memory-hole this, but we can't forget that the Left put America through a reign of terror after 2020. This is some of what they did to me and my family, in an attempt to shut me up: When I was in Seattle, they put up posters around my neighborhood with insane lies about me and my home address, instructing activists to show up at my door. Later, they sent letters to a few hundred of my neighbors, claiming I was a Nazi white supremacist. Death threats, references to my family, the whole deal. A few times, we had to take the kids and leave town.
One of these activists found one of my children at the park with the babysitter and yelled at him until he started crying. My son came home terrified, so I figured out who this person was—a software developer in the neighborhood—got his number, called him, delivered some “persuasive” words, and forced him to apologize to my son over the phone. I made sure he was much more frightened than my son.
The same group organized employees within Microsoft to bomb my wife's boss with emails claiming she was a white supremacist. Thankfully, he thought it was strange for her to be an Asian white supremacist and knew it was all a fabrication. I tracked down the ringleader and, "coincidentally," he was fired a few months later. He overestimated his position and underestimated mine.
Then there were the calls and texts to our private numbers. Threats to rape my wife and murder my children. At one point, I was working with the FBI about it, but the perpetrators had used number-cloaking apps and there was nothing law enforcement could do. I thought we had a lead in St. Louis and hired a private investigator to look into it, but the trail went cold. We fortified our home and studied the law. I was prepared to kill anyone who crossed the threshold.
The institutions got in on it, too. Organized campaigns to ruin my reputation, manipulate my Wikipedia page, cancel my speaking engagements, and list me on the websites of the SPLC and ADL, in an attempt to get me banned from social media. The censorship apparatus put a target on my back and the federal government egged them on. Fortunately, they all failed.
For years, I refused to publicly acknowledge much of what happened to my family—I didn't want to give my enemies the satisfaction—but now is the time to get it out and address it. My experience is hardly unique; many other conservatives have faced similar circumstances. It's about CRT, DEI, and all of the other intellectual issues, but even more, it's about having a society free of threats, violence, intimidation, and madness.
“Haven’t you read,” Jesus replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’” Mat. 19:4