The US Department of Justice dismissed more than a dozen officials who worked on the investigation that former special lawyer Jack Smith led Donald Trump’s actions after the president’s 2020 election loss.
A spokesman for the department said in a statement that Acting Attorney General James McHenri removed the officials because he was not convinced that the members of the staff relied on the President’s agenda because of his role in investigating. Can be
Smith conducted two investigations into Trump’s actions, both of which resulted in the indictment. In a case, it is alleged that Trump tried to end the 2020 presidential election illegally. The other alleged that Trump ran the documents after leaving the White House in 2021 and obstructed justice.
Trump and his allies blew up Smith’s investigation, often describing them and other actions, disliked them that the former Biden administration “surrendered” to the government against the Conservatives.
After taking office last week, one of the first executive orders issued by Trump had to root out the people who were considered a political enemy.
It was not immediately clear which officials of the Smith team have been fired.
Referring to a policy of the Department of Justice, Smith left both cases against Trump after the president was elected, which prohibits the legal action against the sitting president.
The shootings are in addition to the officials who were informed last week that they were being re -assigned to re -work to re -work on Trump’s top priorities, especially on immigration, according to a person who talks about personnel affairs. Asked to be anonymous to do.
Earlier, firing was reported by Fox News.
Meanwhile, District Columbia Ed Martin’s interim US lawyer reviewed the use of some specific obstacles in legal proceedings against people who participated in January 6, 2021, according to a person familiar person With this move
Martin was a January 6 prosecutor’s critic and before being appointed to lead the DC office, the defendant’s lawyer, who had been overseeing the effort in the last four years. Trump signed a large -scale Climension Order on the charge of more than 1,500 people in a capital attack on his first day, in which everyone sentenced was pardoned and pending cases were dismissed.
A spokesman for the US Attorney’s Office did not immediately return the request for comment. Martin’s announcement was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
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