President Trump has vowed to crack down on the extreme left-wing agenda — but a woke stronghold lurks a stone’s throw away.The United States Senate Library — located in the basement of the Russell Senate office building in Washington D.C.— offers a slew of prominently displayed woke titles pumping everything from diversity equity and inclusion, far-left policy manifestos, polemics against Christians, and even deep dives into the long-discredited Russia probe.The taxpayer-funded library — its 21-person payroll expenditures exceed $1.9 million per year — maintains a collection of 45,000 books and serves a population of roughly 6,000, mostly senators, committee sstaffers and other authorized users.
It purports to be a strictly nonpartisan resource in the Capitol.But of its thousands of tomes, it prominently highlights only a select, woke few in special cases and racks.Among them are “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service,” by the recently pardoned Dr.
Anthony Fauci.Also highlighted is “The Message,” a DEI-screed by Ta-Nehisi Coates that has been condemned by some critics as antisemitic.
Coates has himself speculated that he might have participated in the Oct 7 massacre against Israel if he grew up in Gaza.“The Art of Power: My Story as America’s First Woman Speaker of the House,” by Trump’s longtime nemesis Rep.Nancy Pelosi, is also on display.But none of President Trump’s 22 books are on display, and only one can be found in the stacks — his 1987 best-seller “Art of the Deal.” When The Post asked for a copy, a staffer said it was not kept on display and a library employee would have to go find it.
The same treatment was meted out for Vice President Vance’s 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy.”But books on the baseless Trump-Russia allegations were in supply.“Interference: The Inside Story of Trump, Russia, and the Mueller Investigation,” with a forward from former special counsel Robert Mueller, is highlighted pro...