Acting Attorney General James McHenry fired more than a dozen DOJ officials who worked on former special counsel Jack Smith's team investigating Trump on charges related to classified documents and the January 6th insurrection. The DOJ stated that McHenry no longer trusts these officials to implement the President's agenda.
’s acting attorney general abruptly fired more than a dozen officials who worked on the two criminal cases against him, his administration’s latest act of retribution against those deemed political enemies.
Acting Attorney General James McHenry told the officials, who worked on former special counsel Jack Smith’s team, the Department of Justice could no longer “trust” them to carry out Trump’s agenda.“Today, Acting Attorney General James McHenry terminated the employment of a number of DOJ officials who played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump,” a spokesperson for the DOJ said Monday,.
The firings are just the latest effort by Trump to quickly remake the federal government in his image and rid agencies of those deemed counter to that effort, even if such actsThe Trump White House has quickly moved to reshape the Justice Department and rid the agency of those deemed political enemies of the president.the Justice Department’s senior career ethics officials from his post and reassigned him to a much less powerful role.
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