About a dozen Justice Department employees who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation of Donald Trump are being fired.
Could the dropping of charges clear the way for the release of the special counsel’s report on the prosecution?
EXCLUSIVE: A previously identified anti-Trump FBI agent allegedly broke protocol and played a critical role in opening and advancing the bureau’s original investigation related to the 2020 election, tying President Trump to the probe without sufficient predication.
The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of government.”
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President Donald Trump had been charged with crimes by special counsel Jack Smith in cases related to the 2020 election and classified documents.
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.
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.
The Florida jurist finds ‘no historical precedent’ for plan to release a special counsel’s dossier while a case is ongoing.
Judge Aileen M. Cannon ruled that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed and had no authority to prosecute Donald Trump.
The single guiding fact of Jack Smith's prosecution — that he was working to indict, try, convict and jail Trump before the 2024 election — was something he could never,
Special counsel firings: The acting attorney general, James McHenry, fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked with Special Counsel Jack Smith ... of the United States’ defense capabilities ...