The termination of more than a dozen lawyers who worked with the special counsel, Jack Smith, came hours after the department’s most senior career official was reassigned.

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.”

Jack Smith, the DOJ prosecutor, faced criticism for his rush to indict Trump before the 2024 election, allegedly violating guidelines. Despite efforts, Trump was not tried before being re-elected president.

A former federal prosecutor appeared amused after Trump-appointed judge Aileen Cannon questioned why there was a rush to push out special counsel Jack Smith's report in his ... Elie Honig, a former New York prosecutor, joined CNN's Kaitlan Collins on ...

The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of government.”

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.

Smith’s letter cited John Adams for the “fundamental value of our democracy that we exist as ‘a government of laws, and not of men.’” But our prized “rule of law” must inevitably be administered by men and women who are subject to being undermined by political attack.

Trump has frequently mused about seeking revenge on prosecutors like special counsel Jack Smith, who led the two federal criminal cases against Trump, and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who brought the New York hush money case that ended in Trump’s conviction.

Trump appointee Aileen Cannon had dismissed the classified documents case against the now-president and two co-defendants. The DOJ under special counsel Jack Smith had appealed.

In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda.”

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

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