Donald Trump’s revenge is underway. The Department of Justice announced on Monday the dismissal of prosecutors and employees who collaborated in the two judicial investigations against the current president only one week after his return to the White House. Trump had already announced that he would say goodbye to the special prosecutor Jack Smith as soon as he took possession, but he was ahead of his resignation. Now, the purge extends to other members of the Department of Justice with the argument of loss of confidence.
“Today, the acting attorney general James Mchenry dismissed a series of officials of the Department of Justice who played a significant role in the prosecution of President Trump,” said a DOJ official in a statement. “In the light of their actions, the acting attorney general does not trust that these officials help faithfully implement the president’s agenda. This action is consistent with the mission of ending government instrumentalization, ”he added.
The Department of Justice achieved the imputation of Donald Trump in the case of the Mar-A-Lago roles, his mansion in Palm Beach (Florida) in which he retained confidential documents, and for the president’s attempt to subvert Joe’s victory Biden in the 2020 elections.
Jack Smith, the special prosecutor who directed both investigations, presented his resignation on January 11. Smith abandoned both cases against Trump after he won the elections of November 5, citing the policy of the Department of Justice against the processing of a president. None of these cases came to trial, but the prosecutor held in a hard report that “the admissible evidence were enough to obtain and hold a conviction in the trial” for the electoral case. His report on the case of official secrets did not see the light by judicial decision.
One of the letters of dismissal, to which the CNN has had access, makes clear the reason for the dismissal. “You played an important role in the processing of President Trump. The proper functioning of the government depends critically on the confidence that senior officials deposit in their subordinates. Given your significant role in the president’s processing, I do not believe that the leadership of the department can trust you to help faithfully implement the president’s agenda, ”says the letter, signed by the acting attorney general.
Pam Bondi, the one elected by Trump to be a general prosecutor, is aware of the confirmation of his appointment by the Senate to take possession, but the interim holder of the position has already begun dirty work. Bondi, like Trump, was in favor of investigating researchers.
The president, in fact, signed on his first day in office an executive order in that regard. It was asked to review the activities of the Joe Biden mandate of all the federal departments and agencies responsible for enforcing the law, both from the civil and criminal point of view, expressly citing the Department of Justice, the Commission of Securities and Bag The Federal Commerce Commission. It was alleged that many of his actions had been a persecution of political rivals.
The Department of Justice has already created a group to investigate prosecutors who accused some of the participants in the assault on the obstruction capitol of an official procedure. The Supreme Court, of a conservative majority, determined that this legal type was not applicable to that assumption, which led to annuling convictions and imputations. Now, the new managers of the department want to demand responsibilities to those who promoted those accusations. Trump himself was one of those accused of that crime.
The purge of prosecutors and employees of the Department of Justice follows others undertaken by Trump in their first week in office. He dismantled the departments of diversity, equality and inclusion of the federal administration and suspended employment from its members. Then, skipping the procedure foreseen for this, he dismissed the general inspectors – found to supervise the government to comply with the legality – of a dozen departments of the administration.
