Justice Dept. Fires Career Prosecutors On
Washington— The Justice Department fired seven career lawyers prosecuting Donald Trump on Monday, increasing the president’s revenge against his perceived enemies.
The employees worked on special counsel Jack Smith’s probe that resulted to now-dismissed indictments against Trump for his handling of secret data and his efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat before the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
Today, Acting Attorney General James McHenry fired several DOJ personnel who helped prosecute President Trump, a Justice Department official told NBC News.
The Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to faithfully follow the President’s agenda based on their behavior. This supports the goal of ending government weaponization.”
A source told NBC News that career prosecutors Molly Gaston, J.P. Cooney, Anne McNamara, and Mary Dohrmann were fired.
Smith resigned this month before Trump’s inauguration. Trump’s re-election terminated federal criminal cases against him due to the Justice Department’s longstanding ban on prosecuting sitting presidents.
Trump has only been convicted in Manhattan Attorney General Alvin Bragg’s hush money case. This month, Trump was sentenced to a penalty-free unconditional discharge, becoming the first convicted felon president.
In December, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was removed from the Georgia election interference case due to conflict-of-interest charges, halting the trial indefinitely.
Trump claimed throughout the 2024 campaign that all probes were politically driven “witch hunts.” He said Democrats “weaponized” the Justice Department to hurt his re-election bid.
