The report calls Trump's claims that the special counsel was influenced by Biden for political reasons "laughable."
The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of government.”
Special counsel Jack Smith, in his final report on his Jan. 6 investigation into Donald Trump, says Trump used "intimidation and harassment" to stymie his probe.
Mr. Trump has declared on Truth Social that Mr. Smith “should be prosecuted for election interference & prosecutorial misconduct.” The president has also called him a “career criminal.” He also reposted the radio host Mark Levin’s view that “Jack Smith must go to prison.”
The Trump Justice Department says it has fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal investigations into President Donald Trump.
A Ferndale man who was working at a East Smith Road construction site near Noon Road has died after being struck by a vehicle around 9 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28. Brandon W. Gipson, 42, of Ferndale, was struck by a dump truck that was in use at the construction site,
In a letter to Acting Attorney General James McHenry, House Judiciary Committee ranking Democrat Jamie Raskin and House Oversight Ranking Democrat Gerald Connolly demanded a list of all affected Justice Department employees and an explanation for why they were reassigned or fired.
Several federal prosecutors who worked with former special counsel Jack Smith on criminal investigations related to Trump were fired on Monday
Donald Trump was clear about it. He had no qualms about explaining it before the election. He was blunt. He had more than implemented an action that he was going to undertake as so
In termination letters sent to more than a dozen officials, acting Attorney General James McHenry wrote that he did not believe they 'could be trusted to faithfully implement the President's agenda.'
The Justice Department employees had been involved in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that led to Trump's classified documents and Jan. 6 cases.