Trump Dismisses Federal Prosecutors Linked to Investigations of His Actions

Trump Dismisses Federal Prosecutors Linked to Investigations of His Actions

Trump’s administration United States President Donald Trump has dismissed over a dozen prosecutors connected to the prosecution and investigation of the Republican president while he was not in office.
According to anonymous sources inside Trump’s administration, Monday’s firings became effective immediately and applied to the Department of Justice employees.
An official informed the Reuters media outlet that the acting Attorney General James McHenry, who is an appointee of President Donald Trump, Trump appointee, was able to determine that the prosecutor “could not be trusted to faithfully implement the President’s agenda because of their significant role in prosecuting the President.”
The incident underscored Trump’s vows to pursue retribution against people who have scrutinized his behavior, and it was an alteration to long-standing rules that government employees who are career are not punished for their duties under the previous administration.
Trump was inaugurated on January 20 for his third presidency. He was inaugurated on January 20 for a second presidential term following his first term from 2017 to 2021.
People impacted by Monday’s firings include prosecutor colleagues who worked with the former special counsel Jack Smith, who led two investigations into Trump before taking a leave of absence.
One focused on Trump’s storing many classified documents at his home despite a subpoena issued in 2022 to return them.
The other focused on his behavior before and after the presidential election of 2020, which Trump lost in the race to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump is accused of trying to alter the results of the election that he said were marred by widespread fraud in the voting process.
Both investigations ended with federal criminal indictments; the first was in Florida, and the other was in Washington, DC.

Trump has been the only US president, either past or present, to be subjected to criminal charges. In addition to federal indictments, Trump was also accused of state-level indictments.
One case, one in Georgia and the other in Georgia is related to Trump’s claims to thwart the 2020 election. Another one that was in New York claimed Trump of faking business documents to hide a hush-money loan to an adult actress during his Presidential campaign of 2016.
In the instance, Trump was found guilty of 34 counts of felony; however, he was given an ” unconditional discharge” in which the judge released him without penalty.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing in all four instances and has accused the prosecution of being an unmotivated “witch hunt.”
The state-level cases were handled through local district lawyers; federal cases were supervised through the Department of Justice under the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice.
To ensure the investigation’s impartiality, then-Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed an attorney special counsel who was not a political appointee to be the head of the inquiry: Jack Smith, who was previously charged with war crimes in The Hague.
Smith’s charges against Trump went to trial. Following Trump’s re-election in November 2024, Smith dropped the cases, citing the long-standing Justice Department policy not to prosecute presidents who are not in office. Smith also quit as the special counsel.
However, Smith published the report on an indictment, highlighting the credibility of the prosecution’s argument.
“But for Mr. Trump’s election and imminent return to the Presidency, the Office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,” the report stated.
Since his inauguration on January 20, Trump has led the removal of the federal government’s offices.
On January 24, in particular, there were reports that he was fired from 12 inspectors general, individuals tasked with acting as watchdogs of the most important agencies of the government.
Specific experts believe that their dismissals did not comply with federal law, which requires advance notification 30 days before the demotion from the office of inspector general and clearly stating the reason for their dismissal.
The day before his official inauguration, Trump made fun of the widespread denial of “Biden bureaucrats” at the rally attended by his supporters at the Capital One Arena in Washington, DC.
“Most of those bureaucrats ” are getting fired. They’re gone. They should all be gone, but some sneak in,” he said.
In a statement issued on Monday to The Associated Press, an anonymous Trump official repeated the president’s points of view regarding the dismissals of prosecutors: “This action is consistent with the mission of ending the weaponization of government.”
Source: Al Jazeera