Justice Deptartment prosecutors who worked on trump investigations fired
James McHenry on Monday fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on the two criminal investigations into Donald Trump for special counsel Jack Smith, saying they could not be trusted to «faithfully implement» the president's agenda, a Justice Department spokesperson said.
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The department did not identify the prosecutors. But a person who worked with some members of Smith's team said many of the firings appeared to target career lawyers and most likely violated civil service protections for nonpolitical employees.
The move was abrupt, but not unexpected: Trump had vowed to fire Smith as soon as he took office, but the special counsel and some of his top prosecutors quit before his inauguration. Others, however, returned to their old posts, including some assigned to the U.S. attorney's office in Washington.
The announcement kicked off a second week of convulsive change at a department Trump has vowed to dismantle and reconstruct, ushering in a new era of more direct White House control of federal law enforcement agencies.
The firings came just hours after the Trump team made a major personnel move that underscored their intention to remove any officials who might contradict their plans — reassigning the department's most senior career official, a
