WASHINGTON (APP) – The Justice Department said Monday that it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked President Donald Trump’s criminal prosecutionRapid to retaliate against the lawyers involved in the investigation and indicate preliminary consent for the president’s personal interests.
Special Advisor Jack Smith’s team working in the team is the latest symbol of turmoil within the sudden end of the department, which ends, and is committed to cleansing the government’s government, which believes. That he is unfaithful to the president.
Usually scattered move, Who follows the re -assignment of several senior officials of the career in the divisions, However, according to the tradition, the ranking and file prosecutors live with the department in the presidential administration and are not punished for their involvement in sensitive investigations. The firing is immediately effective.
“Today, Acting Attorney General James Mc Henry has terminated the job of several DOJ officials who played a vital role in legalizing against President Trump,” a statement from a Justice Department said. He said that in light of his actions, the acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to help implement the President’s agenda loyalty. This action is in line with the government’s mission to eliminate weapons.
It was not immediately clear which prosecutors were affected by the order, or how many department working on Trump’s investigation remained with the department when Trump took office last week. It was also not immediately known that how many of the fired prosecutors intended to challenge the term by arguing that the department had aside the civil service reservations provided to the federal employees.
The action was the latest attempt to divert the table related to criminal investigations that Trump has been shadowed for years, resulting in a separate person who has never been tried and eventually abandoned.
In the office in the office, on the first day, It issued a journey of clean aircraft and punishment to more than 1,500 supporters In the January 6 riots in the US capital, a mass grant, which also benefited those who committed violent attacks on police, as well as leaders of right -wing extremist groups to keep the Republican in power. Claimed for failed plots.
Trump has long tried to overcome the Justice Department, which investigated him during the first four years under his first term under the former Attorney General Merck Garland. He has repeatedly said that he expects loyalty to a law enforcement community who is trained to put facts, evidence and law before politics. They have moved to put closer allies to high -level positions, Including his first FBI Director, Christopher Veri, with loyal Kashi Patel.
Trump’s choice for Attorney General, Palm Bondi, This month, he confirmed that he would not play politics but did not reject the possibility of investigating Trump’s opponents like Smith.
Smith resigned from the department Earlier this month, Trump’s efforts to end the 2020 presidential election and investigate Trump’s efforts to collect documents in the Mar-A-Ligg State in Florida about two volumes about two volumes. After submitting the volume report. At least one key member of the team, Jay Brett, also retired from the department this month after serving as a lead prosecutor in terms of classified documents.
Both The matter of election interference and the classified documents prosecution In view of the long -standing policy of the Justice Department, Smith was withdrawn after Trump’s presidential victory in November.
Fox News first reported the shooting.
