NBC News -The firings of several Justice Department lawyers involved in prosecuting Donald Trump was meant to intimidate the workforce and deter investigations during the president’s second administration, former DOJ and FBI officials told NBC News.
The Justice Department announced yesterday that the career employees who were fired worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that led to now-dismissed indictments against Trump over his handling of classified documents and his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. “In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda,” a Justice Department official wrote, characterizing the decision as “consistent with the mission of ending the weaponization of government.”
Justice Department officials last week also reassigned four senior career prosecutors involved in Trump investigations to a new task force meant to crack down on sanctuary cities. Those officials included a senior civil servant who was involved in the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago in 2022 and a career prosecutor who helped convict Ross Ulbricht, the cryptocurrency backer who helped found Silk Road, a black market on the dark web that sold illegal drugs, who Trump pardoned on his first full day in office. More
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