BBC News, Washington
ReutersUS President Donald Trump's administration has fired more than a dozen lawyers at the Ministry of Justice, who have worked in two criminal cases against him.
They were fired after an acting prosecutor James Mackenry concluded that they could not “believe in the president's agenda true role because of their significant role in the pursuit of the president,” said a BBC NEWS US Department.
The lawyers were part of the team of former special lawyer Jack Smith, who investigated Trump's alleged abuse of classified documents and his alleged attempt to cancel an election defeat in 2020.
The dismissals on Monday come into force immediately.
Smith was appointed a special advisor in 2022 to monitor the two cases of the Trump Ministry of Justice. The President had sworn to fire him 'within two seconds' of entry into office, But he gave up before his entryS
Both cases led to criminal charges against Trump, who pleaded guilty.
But the cases were closed after his victory in the November election. Prosecutors wrote that the provisions of the Ministry of Justice did not allow the persecution of a sedentary president.
It was not clear immediately which members of the team of G -N Smith were fired.
Many of those who worked in the teams of G -N Smith were career corruptions and prosecutors of national security who worked in different administrations and were appointed in cases.
On Monday, they were reported to have received a letter stating that their role in the investigation and pursuit of the president made them inappropriate to work in the department.
“The dismissal of prosecutors because of the cases they were assigned to work is just unacceptable,” former US lawyer Joyce Vance told NBC News. “This is the anti-law of the law; this is an antidemocracy.”
The dismissals follow a large re -appointment of some of the senior officials of the Ministry of Justice with experience in a wide range of areas, including national security and public corruption. On Monday, one of them, the head of the public integrity section, is reported to have resigned.
Trump and his team have accused the Ministry of Justice of pursuing politically motivated cases against him, his associates and Republicans. Trump promised an immediate major overhaul of the department, which he said was “armed” against him, while conducting a re -election campaign.
His nominee for the leadership of the Ministry of Justice, Pam Bondi, Trump's opinion sounds that the federal persecution against him is a political persecutionSaying that the department “has been armed for years and years and years.”
Smith publicly defended his work. In a letter accompanying the final draft of his report, about Trump's actions after the 2020 election, he writes: “The claim by (Trump) that my decisions as a prosecutor are influenced or led by the Biden administration or other political participants, is in And B A B is a word, funny. “
Also, on Monday, the best Federal prosecutor of Washington announced the start of an internal review of billing solutions behind hundreds of cases of Capitol riots, according to CBS.
The acting US lawyer Edward Martin, appointed to Trump, ordered the prosecutor's office in his office to include documents, emails and other information related to the previous administration's decision to charge an obstacle against more than 200 Capitol defendants.