The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of government.”
About a dozen Justice Department employees who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation of Donald Trump are being fired.
The Justice Department fired officials who worked on the special counsel team that investigated Donald Trump in two separate criminal cases, a spokesman said.
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.”
Smith's report provides new details about election-interference charges against Trump, says he believes election victory saved him from conviction.
The acting attorney general fired more than a dozen officials who assisted special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutions against President Donald Trump.
The report on federal charges against Trump for election interference in 2020 offers special counsel Jack Smith a last chance to explain his decisions after dropping the case.
Cannon told the Justice Department to keep the report under wraps, raising the likelihood it will never be seen by the public.
It’s still an open question whether we’re going to see Volume 2 of Jack Smith’s report, and that focuses on the highly classified materials the FBI found in Trump’s home and in ballrooms and bathrooms in Florida. Florida Judge Aileen Cannon ...
Former FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissmann and former SDNY Attorney David Kelley join MSNBC’s Ari Melber to discuss Special Counsel Jack Smith’s newly released Jan. 6 report. (The Beat's YouTube play
The DOJ is continuing its push to release the remaining volume of special counsel Jack Smith's final report, covering his Jan. 6 probe, to select members of Congress.
In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda.”