The administration of the United States President Donald Trump has fired more than a dozen prosecutors after the Republican leader’s investigation and his oust from power.
According to anonymous sources of Trump’s government, Monday’s terms were effective and it was applied to employees in the Justice Department.
An official told Reuters News Agency that Acting Attorney General James Mc Henry, an appointment of Trump, has vowed to prosecute the president’s agenda because of his significant role in prosecuting the president. Enforcement cannot be trusted. “
The move pointed out threats against Trump’s revenge against those who examined his behavior – and he pointed out a break with long -standing principles that the carrier’s government employees were the former administration. The tasks should not be punished.
Earlier, after serving from 2017 to 2021, Trump took office for a second term on January 20 as president.
The victims of the Monday firing included prosecutors who worked with former special lawyer Jack Smith, who led two investigations in Trump before retiring.
One focused on maintaining hundreds of documents at Trump’s private residence, despite a sub -contingent in 2022 for his return.
The other, before and after the 2020 presidential elections, zeroed on his behavior, which he lost to Biden. Trump was accused of trying to end the election results, which he falsely claimed that the voters’ widespread fraud was accused of him.
Both investigations have resulted in the federal criminal offense: the first in Florida and the second in Washington DC.
Trump was the first US president, past or present, who faced criminal accusations. In addition to federal cases, he was also charged at two state levels.
One, in Georgia, was also related to Trump’s alleged efforts to end the 2020 elections. Others, in New York, accused Trump of misappropriating business documents so that he could hide the payment of money to an adult film actress during the 2016 successful presidential campaign.
In this case, Trump was convicted of counting a 34 crime, though he was sentenced to “unconditional exclusion” – in which he was released without a fine.
Trump has denied wrongdoing in all four cases and has accused the prosecution of leading politically motivating “witchcraft”.
Although state -level cases were tried by local district lawyers, federal cases were monitored by the Biden administration’s Department of Justice.
But to maintain the independence of the investigation, the then Attorney General, Merk Garland, named a special lawyer who was not a political appointment to lead the investigation: Jack Smith, who first legalized against war crimes in the Hague. Was the joy.
None of the Smith case against Trump has tried the case. After Trump was re -elected in November 2024, Smith released both cases, citing the Justice Department’s long -standing policy. He also resigned as a special lawyer.
However, Smith issued a report about one of the two crime, which clarified the power of the prosecution case.
“But for Mr Trump’s election and a return to presidency, the office estimated that acceptable evidence was enough to get and maintain a sentence in the trial.”
Since taking office on January 20, Trump has led to clearing the federal government’s offices.
On January 24, for example, news reports revealed that he fired a dozen inspectors general: officials have been accused of serving key government agencies as a watchdog.
Some experts say their expiry has violated the federal law, which requires 30 days advance notice to remove the inspector general.
On the day of his inauguration, Trump slammed the widespread dismissal of the “Biden Bureaucrats” at a rally with his supporters in Washington, DC’s capital One Arena.
Most of these bureaucrats are being fired, he said. They are gone. All of them should be, but some are hidden, “he said.
In a statement to the Associated Press on Monday, an anonymous official of Trump echoed the president’s talks in discussing the dismissal of the prosecution: “This action is in accordance with the government’s mission to eliminate the weapons.”
