DOJ Fires Officials From Jack Smith’s Team That Investigated Trump
“In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda.”
Fox News learned that the Department of Justice fired over a dozen prosecutors who served on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team investigating now-President Donald Trump.
A DOJ official said that Acting Attorney General James McHenry found them untrustworthy.
Fox News did not find out the names of the fired prosecutors:
“Today, Acting Attorney General James McHenry terminated the employment of a number of DOJ officials who played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump,” a DOJ official told Fox News Digital. “In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda.”
This action “is consistent with the mission of ending the weaponization of government,” the official told Fox News Digital.
The move comes after the Justice Department reassigned more than a dozen officials in the first week of the Trump administration to a Sanctuary City task force and other measures.
Former Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith in 2022 to investigate Trump for supposedly trying to interfere with the 2020 presidential election and keeping classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump pleaded not guilty in both cases.
Well, both cases went nowhere. U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the classified documents case in July 2024.
Smith never had a chance to continue the interference case because Trump defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris in November.
Smith requested to drop the charges against Trump since the DOJ cannot indict a sitting president.
D.C. Judge Tanya Chutkan granted Smith’s request.
Smith resigned from the DOJ on January 11.
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I get that reference!
The line is, “I understood that reference.”
Jack Smith resigned from the DOJ on Jan 11.
So should all those who served on Jack’s team. Instead they sat around waiting to be fired. Now they’re fired.
These foolish DOJ career attornies took one for the team.
Smith was an outside appointment, brought in specifically to do this job. The job was over, so of course he resigned. What else would he do? The only question was the timing. But these are career DOJ lawyers who were assigned to this case, and now that it was over they expected to be reassigned to other cases, just as they had been in the past when a case was over. They weren’t expecting to be fired.
“They weren’t expecting to be fired”
It was totally unexpected, no one could have anticipated it. It just blew their minds. They expected to be reassigned to other cases.
Never attribute to chutzpah what can be attributed to cluelessness.
Bless your heart Justice Millhouse but you are simple aren’t ya
And you’re dishonest and mean-spirited.
Only to stupid people and those who deserve it. In your case you are both of those!
Now they can learn to code!
They will just find positions in some left wing legal firm and continue to sow division through the nation.
They knew this was a witch hunt, and deserved to be fired. It was unreasonable for them to assume that the very person they persecuted would allow them to stay. Which tells me that they more than likely are mediocre at best.
Yes, it’s one of the most Left-wing professions. They will land on their feet.
You misspelled “Illegal appointment”. As concluded by Justice Thomas and Judge Cannon among many others, the Attorney General cannot give any individual the power to bring charges on behalf of the US government absent nomination by the President and confirmation by the Senate. No DOJ attorney should have felt comfortable working in that situation, and the fact that they did illustrates why Trump is entirely correct to say he has no confidence those persons will faithfully carry out the directives of his Attorney General.
And yea the Beast reared it’s vile head, and from it’s pustulent maw came once more the full throated defense of evil that was it’s mission.
Lost in the defeat of it’s masters, it excretes the slime of demoralization to no avail as it’s betters accrue victory.
Listen and laugh at it as it slowly seeps back into the infernal pit of lies from which it sprang.
“…. they can either do as they’re told or ask to be assigned to another case…”
And asking to be reassigned is exactly what any ethical attorney would have done IMHO.
The simple fact that these attorneys were willing to participate in such a blatant misuse of the legal system is all I need to know to convince me the termination was deserved.
A whole bunch of new real estate listings will be posted on Zillow by the end of the week. Love it!
Aah! that’s fine – but how about disbarment proceedings
For that you’d have to identify unethical things that each specific lawyer did. Working on a dud case is not unethical.
They were inferior officers, not senate-confirmed, and they acted as such officers are supposed to act, under the direction of their superior officers who were confirmed by the senate. That means they didn’t make major decisions on their own. So how are they to blame for how the case went? Unless you’re aware of specific incidents where they acted unethically.
Besides which, do you seriously expect the DC bar to disbar them?! It’ would probably give them medals!
Milhouse, if you don’t think when they selected lawyers to work on “getting Trump” they didn’t filter for ones who wanted to “get Trump”, may I offer you a prospectus on purchasing some prime swampland in Florida?
Many lawyers agree with Dershowitz that on their face the multitude of cases brought against Trump and much of the legal arguments for same seem….. more political than not. Even lawyers who would never vote for Trump. The DOJ is part of the executive branch, the head of that branch historically is entitled to hire for workers who will support his actions and fire for those who won’t.
Good example is the death penalty, if the law and the DOJ officially supports it individuals in the DOJ unwilling to support it are in the wrong jobs.
Ah. They were “Just following orders”.
Yes, they were, just as was their duty. As far as I know they did nothing unethical, and certainly nothing illegal.
And no, there is absolutely no requirement that DOJ lawyers must support the death penalty. If they’re assigned a case where the US Attorney in charge has decided to seek it, they can either do as they’re told or ask to be assigned to another case, or just other tasks within the same case.
Likewise in states where abortion is legal it is not required that all doctors support it. It’s not even required that all doctors be willing to do it. All that’s required is that they be willing to refer the patient to someone who will do it.
Milhouse, there are prosecutors and judges who are not just reluctant to impose the death penalty, they actively oppose it, not just personally but professionally. Its not just a case of them “not being willing to do it” so they instead refer/transfer he case to another official, they will keep the case and do their best/worst to sabotage any imposition of it.
I was going to say that I cannot believe you actually believe what you are saying Justice Milhouse…but here we are in 2025 and the funny thing is you do actually believe what you are saying is true
None of the lawyers on the Get Trump train were against the notion of getting Trump. As others have already said I guarantee you ANY lawyer not fully onboard with the mission would not have been engaged in this legal case from the get go.
And this is true of everything else, you dont put lawyers on a team who do not believe in the mission. Each and everyone of those lawyers were elected exactly because they wanted to be part of the team that took Trump down…which would have brought untold riches and kudos from the left for the rest of their lifetime.
One man’s “working a dud case” is another’s “malicious prosecution.”
As noted above, they worked without comment for an individual who was exercising powers not granted to him under US law. Plenty good reason to question how they let their political views influence their performance.
it is unethical if the case were a perversion of law
Could that “dud case” have landed Trump in prison? Why yes, yes it could. Then it’s not a dud, is it?
Being imprisoned is a loss of your fundamental right to Liberty and if people conspire to imprison you by fabricating a “dud case” against you, then those people broke the law. (Ironically, that crime — conspiracy against rights — is what Smith and his gaggle of now fired prosecutors charged Trump in the dud DC case).
These prosecutors happily went along with Smith and probably were just as eager to destroy Trump. What they did was criminal, Nuremberg Defense notwithstanding
From Don Surber’s substack.
We know what happened last time. Trump went in trusting Republicans. They set him up good. While awaiting his appointees to be confirmed, he just let Obama’s deputies run the show.
That cost him a month or more in trying to get his government started.
This time, President Trump is going forward with or without a Cabinet. He not only is prepared for this, he wants Senate Democrats to drag their feet because the slower they walk, the more he can get done. It is paradoxical but most things in Official Washington are counter-intuitive.
Rod D. Martin explained this on Twitter. Martin is a member of the PayPal Mafia that made money when http://X.com bought Paypal. They took the money and went on to found Yelp, YouTube and sundry other Internet businesses.
Martin tweeted:
Inside the MASSIVE Trump DOJ shake-up you need to know about. A thread that will blow your mind. Let me tell you what’s REALLY happening behind closed doors at DOJ right now. 20+ career officials SIDELINED overnight. This is just the beginning.
Well, I thought, Trump’s acting attorney general is just cleaning house, which Pam Bondi would do if she were attorney general.
Much to my surprise, she couldn’t.
Martin tweeted:
Here’s the GENIUS part: They found a LOOPHOLE to make this stick. Federal regulations generally protect career employees from being reassigned for at least 120 days after new leadership takes over.
But Pam Bondi hasn’t been confirmed yet. The firings come from the ACTING AG.
Get all phones, computers, letters, note pads, individual bank accounts for them and spouses. You will find the hand of Garland and Biden’s office. Not the demented dullard of course. No. A puppet master.
Call them into a board room for a special meeting and while they are there secure their work stations.
According to RWTR that is being done. The interim US Attorney for DC is investigating Smith’s prosecutors,..also the judges that violated the 1/6ers right to a speedy trial should also be investigated and jailed
I’m liking the 2.0 version of Trump a lot.
This is the rare sequel that far exceeds the original.
I can’t wait to see how this movie plays out.
Sharknabob II!
Someone on TwitX nailed it:
“Trump is governing like he’d been shot, indicted, investigated and impeached, and he has no more f*cks to give. It’s glorious.”
Yep. He’s Sulla with a proscription list and he’s taking names. I love it!!!
Every DOJ who worked on a Jan6 Ralliers case should get canned for the Kangaroo Courts they put up to screw the Ralliers without a defense
I believe they are next. Justice, like winter, is coming!
Winter arrived in November, 2020, what comes now is a golden spring in which Justice will sow her seeds and kill the weeds.
It’s also going to be a very long and cold 4 years for leftists.
in redhat bizarroworld, Trump iand the 1/6 assholes are the good guys and the people who hold them accountable are the bad guys. It’s s a cult- and a not very bright one
After four years in the FA stage, it’s nice to move onto the FO stage.
These fired prosecutors knew their objective was to frame Trump. They’re lucky fired is the only consequence.
Their defense will be “They were only following orders…”
When will Jack Smith be proscuted?
for what redhat? holding the orange shitain accountable for his crimes?
On this one I agree with Milhouse. Staff lawyers possibly randomly assigned to a case should not be fired without due process, or we are no better than they are. In a civil society vengeance isn’t mine. You folks would really cost someone near retirement their government pension, without closely evaluating their role? None of you can say that did not happen.
There is no randomly assigned to this case jb. They all serve at the Presidents whim and they chose wrong allowing their politics to jeopardise their careers thinking they had long illustrious careers ahead of them thanks to taking a President down.
in redhat bizarroworld, Trump is the good guy and the people who hold him accountable are the bad guys. It’s s cult- and a not very bright one
They serve at the pleasure and discretion of the President, and “loss of confidence” is the only due process they are entitled to. Their actions in participating in these sham prosecutions is sufficient evidence.
The Nuremberg defense, in your theory of “randomly assigned” doesn’t fly in a moral society. The fact that they risk losing their pension is immaterial to evaluating whether or not they should retain their positions. Even if not enthusiastic participants, (facts not in evidence) just the reality that they did NOT refuse to participate in what was clearly political persecution means they, ipso facto, lack sound judgment.
hey moron-in redhat bizarroworld, Trump is the good guy and the people who hold him accountable are the bad guys. It’s s cult- and a not very bright one
Every one of the staff lawyers on the J6 cases *volunteered* for this duty. None of them were assigned. This has been confirmed. Each and every one of them saw an opportunity to rack up bonus points with the Anti-Trump swamp, future high positions depending on how many of the protestors they could put away for how many years. They kept *score* with every conviction and plea. They deserve to be standing on the side of the street with a cardboard box full of their office stuff and a pink slip, each and every one of them.
I know it’s quaint, but DOJ lawyers owe a duty to justice of their own, not just obedience to their superior. If their superior, i.e., the AG, chooses to go after a man in Lavrenty Beria fashion, the individual lawyer has a moral and ethical duty to not participate, at the least, and likely to make a noisy withdrawal.
in redhat bizarroworld, Trump is the good guy and the people who hold him accountable are the bad guys. It’s s cult- and a not very bright one
It’s fair that if you spent the last several years trying to put the new president in prison for exercising his First Amendment rights that you can’t reasonably be trusted to do your work for him honestly.
in redhat bizarroworld, Trump and the 1/6 assholes are the good guys and the people who hold them
accountable are the bad guys. It’s s cult- and a not very bright one
In the military it’s legal to not follow illegal orders, in fact it’s the service members job to point out the illegality of it. To continue to follow illegal orders is as criminal as the person who gave the orders. I was jus following orders is not a defense. Ignorance of the law is also not a defense.
hey moron- yea you in the red hat…..
in redhat bizarroworld, Trump is the good guy and the people who hold him accountable are the bad guys. It’s s cult- and a not very bright one
in redhat bizarroworld, Trump is the good guy and the people who hold him accountable are the bad guys. It’s s cult- and a not very bright one