dismiss the staff that investigated them
President Donald Trump has begun to execute his revenge against all those people who consider that they are his “enemies” and that they are part of what he calls Deep Sate. This Monday the Department of Justice has announced that it has fired more than a dozen employees who worked on the criminal investigations against Trump. It has not yet been specified what people are those who have been affected by the order, according to Associated Press, which quotes sources from the department to affirm that the layoffs were made by the interim attorney general, James Mchenry.
“Today, the interim attorney general James Mchenry ended several officials of the Department of Justice who played a significant role in the prosecution of President Trump,” says a statement from an official of the Department of Justice: “In Luz Of his actions, the interim attorney general does not trust that these officials can help to implement the president's agenda faithfully. This action is consistent with the mission of ending government politicization. ”
The layoffs are consequences of the decree that Trump signed on his first day to end the alleged “instrumentalization” of the federal government and are another sample of Trump's will to purge the justice department of those people who are not loyal to him.
Those affected are those lawyers who were part of the team of the special prosecutor Jack Smith, who already resigned at the beginning of the month. Smith was in charge of leading the accusation of the two federal cases against the President: that of the classified papers of Mar-A-Lago and that of the attempt to reverse the elections with the assault on the Capitol. The Special Prosecutor until now was one of the first names headed by the blacklist of the new Tenar of the White House.
Another of the Clavel members of the Smith team in the investigation of the Mar-A-Lago papers, Jay Bratt, also retired from the department this month after working as the main prosecutor in the case of Florida.
Given the perspective that Trump could not be judged as of January 20, Smith asked to dismiss the accusation of both cases, to leave open the possibility of recovering them once the Republican ends the presidency.
The purge within the Department of Justice is framed in a series of internal movements in which Trump has been reassessing personnel who had been in the department for years to other sites. For example, the Deputy General Subfiscal, Bradley Weinsheimer, a veteran respected from the department for three decades and who played a critical role under several administrations as a key arbitrator in ethical issues, has been offered to be transferred to another area.
In 2021, Weinsheimer raided the way for former Trump administration officials to testify to Congress on the president's actions after the 2020 elections, despite the objection of Trump's legal team. The transfer of the Deputy General Deputy is part of a maneuver by the Republican to exercise greater direct control over the department's headquarters. It is not yet known who will replace Weinsheimer.
According to the New York TimesWeinsheimer, like many other justice officials, has received an email in which he has been given the option to move to the team that works in the sanctuary cities of the department. It is an offer that reads as an attempt to force him to give up.
The purification of the official is one of the key steps proposed by the Ultraconservator Plan Project 2025 and that Trump has always denied knowing. The text, published by the Think Tank Heritage Foundation promotes the idea of the “unit executive” that implies that even the Department of Justice is under the control of the president. Now the Republican is getting rid of those workers in department who can assume a problem when it comes to initiating their so promised personal revenge against their political enemies.
Even Trump himself already explained this will to clean the department in an interview with the magazine Time Last April. The president warned that there are government workers “who are protected and should not be.” To solve it, if Trump suggested establishing the Executive Order Schedule F, which allows the president to fire any government official. The president has not restored this order – for the moment – but has signed a very similar under the premise of establishing “a process to guarantee accountability for federal government politicization by the previous administration against the people US”.
