Trump plans to fire Jack Smith's team, use Justice Department to probe 2020 election

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : And Trump has said he would nominate D. John Sauer, who argued his landmark presidential immunity case in front of the Supreme Court, to be the nation's solicitor general.
41% : "It's not clear how quickly or easily Trump could fire career staff, including the prosecutors who worked for Smith on the classified-documents and election-obstruction cases.
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37% : To fill out the rest of the top Justice Department leadership, Trump has said he will install three attorneys who represented him in the federal cases brought by Smith but also his state prosecution in New York, in which Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment ahead of the 2016 election.
35% : Before Trump left office in 2021, he passed an executive order known as the "Schedule F" rule, which would have reclassified huge swaths of career government employees and made it easier to fire them.
33% : The longtime federal prosecutor, who also worked for several years at the International Criminal Court at The Hague, plans to resign as special counsel and wrap up his federal prosecutions of Trump before he can be ousted, The Post reported earlier this month.
32% : "For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans," Trump wrote when announcing his new pick, longtime ally Pam Bondi, in a post on Truth Social.
30% : Trump has vowed to reinstate the Schedule F rule, however.
27% : "Neither the president-elect nor his allies have ever provided evidence to prove their claims of voter fraud, and they did not make similar claims during this month's election after Trump emerged as the victor.
25% : AdvertisementAs he again becomes president, Trump "wants to clean out 'the bad guys, the people who went after me,'" said one of the individuals familiar with the plans, who like the other person spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations about the incoming Trump administration.
25% : Trump reiterated that goal on Thursday, after his first pick for attorney general, former congressman Matt Gaetz, withdrew from consideration.
24% : "Among the accusations Trump and his allies have lobbed at Benson and others: They allowed the counting of ballots from noncitizens, dead people or out-of-state residents; they illegally altered election rules during the coronavirus pandemic that allowed cheating to occur; and they barred GOP poll watchers from observing voting or counting.
22% : ""Please beware," Trump wrote on Truth Social, "that this legal exposure extends to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters, & Corrupt Election Officials.
21% : Trump likely won't get the chance to carry out one act of retribution he has promised: firing Smith.
19% : Trump is also planning to assemble investigative teams within the Justice Department to hunt for evidence in battleground states that fraud tainted the 2020 election, one of the people said.
15% : But Trump has continued to trumpet his unproved allegations about 2020, using ominous language to suggest that he would try to criminally prosecute state officials.
10% : "Trump still speaks frequently about the 2020 election, which he lost to Joe Biden but continues to insist was stolen from him in key battlegrounds.

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