{"id":108690,"date":"2025-01-28T00:03:33","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T00:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/doj-fires-members-of-special-counsel-jack-smiths-team-who-prosecuted-trump\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T00:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T00:03:33","slug":"doj-fires-members-of-special-counsel-jack-smiths-team-who-prosecuted-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/doj-fires-members-of-special-counsel-jack-smiths-team-who-prosecuted-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ fires members of special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s team who prosecuted Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-27\/News_JackSmith_12725.png\" alt><figcaption>Bill O&#8217;Leary\/The Washington Post via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">(WASHINGTON) &#8212; The Justice Department is firing &#8220;over a dozen&#8221; officials who were part of former special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s teams that prosecuted President Donald Trump, officials confirmed to ABC News Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Acting Attorney General James McHenry transmitted letters to the officials informing them of their termination, officials said, that said given their part in the prosecutions they couldn&#8217;t be trusted in &#8220;faithfully implementing the president&#8217;s agenda.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">It&#8217;s not immediately clear the exact number of officials who were fired on Monday, but the move was largely expected after President Trump&#8217;s threats leading up to the 2024 election stating he planned to fire Smith &#8220;on day one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Smith resigned prior to Trump taking office and submitted his final report to former Attorney General Merrick Garland. Garland released Vol. 1 of Smith&#8217;s final report detailing Trump&#8217;s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, but he was blocked by District Judge Aileen Cannon from sharing with Congress the second volume of Trump&#8217;s report detailing his investigation of Trump&#8217;s mishandling of classified documents after leaving his first administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Separately, an official confirmed to ABC News that the top career official in the Justice Department, Bradley Weinsheimer, was recently informed he was being reassigned out of his role. Weinsheimer was a longtime career public official and gained notoriety last year in exchanges with President Joe Biden&#8217;s attorneys as they sought to prevent Special Counsel Robert Hur from releasing portions of his final report that detailed Biden&#8217;s diminished capacities.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill O&#8217;Leary\/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; The Justice Department is firing &#8220;over a dozen&#8221; officials who were part of former special counsel Jack Smith&#8217;s teams that prosecuted President Donald Trump, officials confirmed to ABC News Monday. Acting Attorney General James McHenry transmitted letters to the officials informing<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/doj-fires-members-of-special-counsel-jack-smiths-team-who-prosecuted-trump\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}