Special counsel prosecutors were fired on instructions of White House

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : At the time the cases were dismissed last year, after Trump won the election, Smith had 17 prosecutors attached to his team.
30% : In the termination notices transmitted to the prosecutors who had worked on Smith’s team, McHenry wrote that they were being let go as a result of their “significant role in prosecuting President Trump” which meant they could not be trusted to “assist in faithfully implementing the president’s agenda”.
28% : The purge was not unexpected given Trump had vowed, on the campaign trail, to fire Smith.
24% : Smith charged Trump in two criminal cases: in Florida, for mishandling classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and defying a subpoena commanding their return; and in Washington, for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
23% : But Trump has since soured on Sessions and Barr, and their endorsements appear to have been of no help to Weinsheimer as the new Trump administration moves to clear the senior leadership of the justice department in preparation to use it to enforce Trump’s personal and political agenda.
20% : The justice department fired more than a dozen federal prosecutors involved in the two criminal prosecutions against Donald Trump after receiving instructions to do so from the White House, indicating the late-night purge was a political directive that deputized the justice department.

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