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2025-01-28 Home Front: Politix
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Trump gets revenge as he fires a dozen Justice Department officials who prosecuted him
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[DM] Donald Trump's Justice Department is firing more than a dozen officials who worked on former Special Counsel Jack Smith's cases against him.
Smith charged Trump in two separate prosecutions with trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat and mishandling of classified documents.
The officials, who were on Smith's team, were fired after Acting Attorney General James McHenry said they could not now be trusted to pursue the president's policies in good faith, Fox News reported.
A Justice Department official told the network: 'Today, McHenry terminated the employment of a number of officials who played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump.
'In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President's agenda.'
Smith, who resigned before Trump took office, concluded in a report released earlier this month that the president engaged in an 'unprecedented criminal effort' to hold on to power after losing the 2020 election.
He was ultimately thwarted in bringing the cases to trial due to Trump's election victory.
Trump's lawyers have called Smith's actions politically motivated.
The president denies any wrongdoing in the cases, which Smith dropped shortly after Trump was elected.
In a separate development, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that a Trump-appointed prosecutor had opened an internal review of the Justice Department's decision to charge hundreds of January 6 defendants with felony obstruction offenses in connection with the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. 
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