The Justice Department is firing "over a dozen" officials who were part of former special counsel Jack Smith's teams that prosecuted President Donald Trump, officials confirmed to ABC News Monday.

The Justice Department employees had been involved in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that led to Trump's classified documents and Jan. 6 cases.

The termination of more than a dozen lawyers who worked with the special counsel, Jack Smith, came hours after the department’s most senior career official was reassigned.

The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of government.”

The moves show a willingness by the administration to follow through on threats to seek retribution. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Trump Justice Department says it has fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal investigations into President Donald Trump.

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WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's administration on Monday fired more than a dozen Justice Department lawyers who brought two criminal cases against him, an official said, as the Republican moves swiftly to exert greater control over the department.

The U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump’s Acting Attorney General, James McHenry, on Monday reportedly fired career prosecutors who worked for Special Counsel Jack Smith and were involved in the criminal prosecution of Donald Trump.

Several federal prosecutors who worked with former special counsel Jack Smith on criminal investigations related to Trump were fired on Monday

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