The US Department of Justice fired more than a dozen officers, who worked on the investigation that former Special Advocate Jack Smith led the work of Donald Trump after the President’s 2020 election loss.
The department spokesman said in a statement that acting Attorney General James McHeenry removed the officers as they could not believe that members of those employees could be trusted to implement the President’s agenda due to their roles in the investigation.
Smith conducted two investigations in Trump’s works, both of which gave results in the prosecution. In one case, it was alleged that Trump illegally tried to reverse the 2020 presidential election. The second alleged that Trump denied the classified documents wrong and interrupted justice after leaving the White House in 2021.
Trump and his associates exploded Smith’s investigation, often described him and other works as an example of how the former Biden administration “laid the government” against the conservatives.
One of the first executive orders issued after Trump took over last week, one of the first executive orders was to remove the individuals he considered a political enemy.
It was not immediately clear that Smith’s team officials were fired.
Smith left both cases against Trump, when he was cited as a policy of a justice department for the presidency, who prohibited the prosecution of the sitting presidents.
Firing are in addition to officers who were informed last week that they are being re -assigned to work on Trump’s top priorities, especially on immigration enforcement, according to a person who said about the cases of personnel Asked to be anonymous to speak.
The firing was earlier reported by Fox News.
Meanwhile, the Interim American Attorney Ed Martin has initiated an internal review of the use of allegations of some hooliganism in the prosecution of people participating on 6 January 2021 for Colombia district, according to a person, according to a person, familiar According to the person with that step.
Martin was an outspoken critic of a lawyer for the January 6 prosecution and defendants, before he was appointed to lead the DC office, who had oversee that effort in the last four years. Trump signed a collective psalcular order for more than 1,500 people accused in a capital attack on his first day in the office, forgiveing almost all who were convicted and the pending cases were rejected.
A spokesman for the US Attorney Office did not immediately return the request for comment. Martin’s announcement was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
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