Justice Department fires more than a dozen key officials on former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team
Exclusive: The Ministry of Justice is launching more than ten of the main officials who worked on the special lawyer Jack Smith, who is being tried by President Donald Trump, after the Acting Prosecutor James McGharri said they could not be trusted in “implementing the president’s agenda honestly.”
Mchanry conveyed a letter to every official who notifies them, and the Fox News Digital official told.
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The number of officials who received this message is not clear. The names of individuals were not launched immediately.
Donald Trump and Jack Smith (Getty Images)
“Today, the Acting Prosecutor James McGathrei has finished employing a number of Ministry of Justice officials who played an important role in sustaining President Trump,” said an official at the Fox News. “In light of their actions, the Acting Prosecutor does not trust these officials to help implement the president’s agenda honestly.”
This procedure “consistent with the task of ending the government’s weapon,” the official told Fox News Digital.
The move comes after the Ministry of Justice was re -appointed by more than dozens of officials in the first week of the Trump administration to the Labor Squad in the City of Haram and other measures.
It also comes after Trump pledged to end the federal government weapon.
Former Prosecutor Merik Garland appointed Smith, a former Official of the Ministry of Justice, As a private consultant in November 2022.
Smith, former assistant of the American lawyer and head of the General Integrity Department of the Ministry of Justice, led the investigation of Trump’s retaining the classified documents after leaving the White House and whether the former president had hindered the investigation into the federal government.
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Smith was also assigned to oversee the investigation whether Trump or other officials interfere in the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 presidential elections, including the voting certificate on the election college on January 6, 2021.
Smith accused Trump in both cases, but Trump admitted that he was not guilty.
The Chairman of the Judicial Committee in the House of Representatives, Jim Jordan, established the sub -committee on the federal government weapon during the previous conference. (Andrew Harnik/Associated Press)
The case of the recorded records in July 2024 was rejected by the US District Court of the Southern Region of Florida Judge Eilen Cannon, who had eliminated that Smith was appointed illegally as a special consultant.
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Smith Trump was accused of the US provincial court in Washington, DC, in his 2020 election case, but after Trump was elected, Smith sought to reject the case. Judge Tania Chutcan gave this request.
Both cases were rejected.
