Trump Administration Fires Prosecutors in Coordinated DOJ Purge

| Importance: 9/10 | Status: confirmed

Acting Attorney General James McHenry systematically fired multiple Justice Department officials who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into Trump’s election interference and classified documents case. In termination letters, McHenry argued the officials could not be trusted to ‘faithfully implement the President’s agenda’, raising significant concerns about prosecutorial independence and potential political retaliation.

Key Actors

James McHenry Donald Trump Jack Smith Jamie Raskin Gerald Connolly

Tags

doj-weaponization prosecutorial-independence trump-administration retaliation rule-of-law institutional-capture

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