The Trump Justice Department says it has fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal investigations into President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump had been charged with crimes by special counsel Jack Smith in cases related to the 2020 election and classified documents.

The first volume of special counsel Jack Smith's report on the 2020 election case against President Trump was released last week.

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.

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.”

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

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Over a dozen officials who worked on former special counsel Jack Smith’s team to prosecute President Donald Trump are being

In termination letters sent to more than a dozen officials, acting Attorney General James McHenry wrote that he did not believe they 'could be trusted to faithfully implement the President's agenda.'

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.