DOJ Fires Officials Who ‘Played A Significant Role In Prosecuting President Trump’

Although Pam Bondi, President Donald Trump’s choice for U.S. Attorney General, has not yet been confirmed, the Trump Justice Department is wasting no time in weeding out members of the Department of Justice whom they think cannot be trusted to implement Trump’s agenda.

Acting Attorney General James McHenry sent a letter to more than a dozen officials connected to the Biden administration’s DOJ investigations into Trump informing them that they had been fired.

McHenry wrote:

As President Trump declared on his first day in office, “The American people have witnessed the previous administration engage in a systematic campaign against its perceived political opponents, weaponizing the legal force of numerous Federal law enforcement agencies … against those perceived political opponents in the form of investigations, prosecutions, civil enforcement actions, and other related actions.” Nowhere was that effort more salient than in the unprecedented prosecutions the Department of Justice vigorously pursued against President Trump himself.

“You played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump,” he continued. “The proper functioning of government critically depends on the trust superior officials place in their subordinates. Given your significant role in prosecuting the President, I do not believe that the leadership of the Department can trust you to assist in implementing the President’s agenda faithfully.”

The Biden DOJ investigated Trump repeatedly. In June 2022, federal agents went to Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago to search for more documents they thought Trump had taken from the White House after the National Archives had claimed it had obtained 15 boxes of presidential records Trump had taken there. In August 2022, FBI agents raided Mar-a-Lago to search for more documents.

In mid-November 2022, after Trump announced he would run for president in 2024, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as special counsel to supervise the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into Trump’s alleged retention of national defense information and also an investigation into the attempts by some people to reverse the 2020 election.

In June 2023, Smith’s office issued a 37-count indictment against Trump regarding his alleged mishandling of classified documents. On July 1, 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump was entitled to presumptive immunity from prosecution for official acts he took while in office. In mid-July, Judge Aileen Cannon dismissed the classified documents case on the grounds that Jack Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional because he was not appointed by the president or confirmed by Congress. Smith then appealed the decision, but after Trump was elected president in November 2024, Smith asked the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to pause his appeal, later asking them to dismiss it entirely.