Washington – The Department of Justice said on Monday that it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal prosecution of President Donald Trump, moving fast to pursue vengeance against the lawyers involved in the investigation and Indicated an initial desire to take favorable action for the President’s individual. Interests.
The sudden termination of career prosecutors working in the team of Special Counsel Jack Smith is the latest sign of upheaval within the Department of Justice and it is in line with the administration’s determination to purify the government of those workers, who is the President Consider it disorganized towards.
The criteria-making move, which follows the revaluation of several senior career officers in the divisions, even though the tradition remains with the department during the rank-end-filing prosecutor presidential administration and punished on the basis of their involvement in sensitive investigation Are not there. Firing are immediately effective.
A statement by an official of the Department of Justice said, “Today, Acting Attorney General James McHeenry abolished the employment of several DOJ officers who played an important role in prosecuting President Trump.” “In the light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to help in implementing the President’s agenda honestly. This action is in line with the mission to abolish the government’s weapons. ,
It was not immediately clear which prosecutors were affected by the order, or how many people working on the investigation in Trump remained with the department as Trump took over last week. It was also not immediately known how many deleted prosecutors intended to challenge the termination by making arguments that the department had separated the civil service safety given to the federal employees.
Action was the latest attempt to turn on the table on criminal inquiry which had overshadowed Trump’s candidature over the years and resulted in separate prosecution. On his first day in the office, he issued extensive apologies and sentence for more than 1,500 supporters accused on 6 January at US Capital, a large -scale pardon grant that also benefited those who also benefited those who on police They were found guilty of violent attacks, as well as leaders of far-flung extremist groups convicted the plots failed for keeping the Republican into power.
Trump has long demanded control of a justice department, which during his first term as well as during the last four years under the former Attorney General Merick Garland. He repeatedly said that he expects loyalty from a law enforcement community trained to keep facts, evidence and law before politics. Trump’s pick for the Attorney General, Palm Bondi, said in her confirmation that she would not play politics, but did not deny the ability to investigate opponents like Smith.
Smith resigned from the department earlier this month, which two-block on the twin investigation into the efforts of the 2020 presidential election and the efforts of their hoardings of documents classified at his Mar-e-Lago Estate in Florida Was after submitting the report. The team retired this month after serving as a prominent prosecutor in the case of classified documents, at least one other prominent member of the team.
Smith’s team had withdrawn both the election intervention cases and classified documents prosecution after Trump’s presidential victory in November, keeping in mind the policy of the Department of Justice.