About a dozen Justice Department employees who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation of Donald Trump are being fired.
EXCLUSIVE: The Justice Department is firing more than a dozen key officials who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team to prosecute President Trump, Fox News Digital has learned.
Could the dropping of charges clear the way for the release of the special counsel’s report on the prosecution?
Trump correctly criticized the Biden administration’s weaponization of government. He must now choose whether to allow the Democrats’ wrongful lawfare against him to naturally end.
The department’s motion to drop the case was signed by Hayden O’Byrne, who was appointed as the “interim” U.S. Attorney in Miami on Monday at the same time as the firings. O’Byrne, a member of the conservative Federalist Society, was hired as a prosecutor by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2019.
DOJ had continued prosecuting Trump aides Walt Nauta and Carlos De Oliveira even after it dropped its case against Trump after his successful election. Now that case too, is going away.
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Top House Democrats say that the way in which Jack Smith's staffers were fired "very likely violated longstanding federal laws."
President Donald Trump had been charged with crimes by special counsel Jack Smith in cases related to the 2020 election and classified documents.
The request seeks to drop obstruction charges against two former Trump co-defendants charged with obstructing justice in the classified documents case.