Trump ordered personal fires by prosecutors to Special Advisors | Trump -Administration

The US Department of Justice fired more than a dozen prosecutors working on the criminal cases against Donald Trump hours after the president directly ordered it from the oval office, according to two people familiar with the intervention.

The move to cleanse people who worked for former specialist adviser Jack Smith had apparently come from the acting legal lawyer, James Mchenry, who sent the formal termination messages that said they could not trust to implement Trump’s agenda.

But the genes for the layoffs was Trump himself, according to two people who are directly familiar with the case and a demonstration of Trump’s uncontrolled power as he implements a new order where the Ministry of Justice can be answered to the White House.

The final goal of Trump’s team is that the president must have a Ministry of Justice that plays a leading role in enforcing his wishes and submitting his bid, under their version of a unit manager in which the president leads any agency.

Trump’s intervention to remove prosecutors in Smith’s office was seen by some of his advisers as the start of their efforts to make it normal practice to get the lawyer to work with West Wing to enforce and adopt his political agenda.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

After Trump instructed his advisers that he would have the charges away, the White House presidential staff issued by the long -time Trump Ally Sergio Gor, a note that instructed the Ministry of Justice to continue and gave the move a degree of legal coverage.

The memo was then sent to the acting law lawyer office, which issued the actual termination messages to those who are still in the department. The exact number is unclear because the department did not release names, but the trial team consisted of at least 18 lawyers.

The Ministry of Justice has undergone seismic change in the first days of Trump’s second period, with the top officials closed down by the Deputy Attorney’s Office and exposed to top positions in key components, including the criminals, civilian and national security departments.

Once the wider cleansings are completed, the expectation is that lawyers who are loyal to Trump should be installed in vacancies. They could end up serving there for years, putting their own stamp on the department and transforming its future legal ideology to become in line with Trump’s agenda.

The staff changes have come in waves: First, it was the leaders of the National Security Division and the Public Integrity section, which Trump has blamed for pushing for opening the criminal cases in his erroneous processing of classified documents and efforts to overthrow the election results by 2020.

Next, have been career attorneys in the Deputy Attorney’s Office, including the top non-political official Brad Weinsheimer, who had been appointed on a temporary basis of Trump’s first legal lawyer, Jeff Sessions until permanently made by Trump’s last lawyer, Bill Barr.

But Weinsheimer had the accident of being one of two people Trump’s lawyers met in 2023 when they had tried and failed to have a meeting with the then lawyer, Merrick Garland, in an attempt to avert a charge in the classified documents case .

Trump The White House then sent the memo to shoot all the remaining members of Smith’s team on Monday, a particularly aggressive step because they were also career complaints who, in theory, had office protection from being fired on political ground.

In the coming weeks, in another case of the White House, which directs parts of the Ministry of Justice, the fired prosecutors for special advisers are expected to face bruises in a politically charged investigation.

Last week, Trump signed a executive order that tasks the legal attorney to present a report on “Weapons of the Federal Government”, all of which are sure to include cases of special adviser and submit the results to the Deputy Staff Chief of Politics – at The White House .