The acting attorney general fired more than a dozen officials who assisted special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutions against President Donald Trump.
Top House Democrats say that the way in which Jack Smith's staffers were fired "very likely violated longstanding federal laws."
About a dozen Justice Department employees who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation of Donald Trump are being fired.
President Donald Trump has thrown the Justice Department's Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutions out the window. But a week before Trump became president, the Department essentially did the same to its own investigation of Trump.
The 47th president invokes the powers of Article II to fire the special counsel’s squad — but are his hands tied?
The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of government.”
The acting attorney general said these officials could not be trusted to "faithfully implement the president's agenda."
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.”
A federal judge slammed special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday and accused his office of seeking to deny two former co-defendants of President Trump a fair trial by releasing a final report on the
Fla., joined 'The Faulkner Focus' to discuss her initial reaction to the firings and how House Republicans are going to work to advance President Donald Trump's agenda.
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