DOJ Fires Officials Who 'Played A Significant Role In Prosecuting President Trump'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : McHenry wrote:As President Trump declared on his first day in office, "The American people have witnessed the previous administration engage in a systematic campaign against its perceived political opponents, weaponizing the legal force of numerous Federal law enforcement agencies ... against those perceived political opponents in the form of investigations, prosecutions, civil enforcement actions, and other related actions."
37% : "You played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump," he continued.
35% : On July 1, 2024, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump was entitled to presumptive immunity from prosecution for official acts he took while in office.
31% : Smith then appealed the decision, but after Trump was elected president in November 2024, Smith asked the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals to pause his appeal, later asking them to dismiss it entirely.
29% : In mid-November 2022, after Trump announced he would run for president in 2024, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Jack Smith as special counsel to supervise the Justice Department's criminal investigation into Trump's alleged retention of national defense information and also an investigation into the attempts by some people to reverse the 2020 election.
27% : Nowhere was that effort more salient than in the unprecedented prosecutions the Department of Justice vigorously pursued against President Trump himself.
18% : In June 2022, federal agents went to Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago to search for more documents they thought Trump had taken from the White House after the National Archives had claimed it had obtained 15 boxes of presidential records Trump had taken there.
17% : In June 2023, Smith's office issued a 37-count indictment against Trump regarding his alleged mishandling of classified documents.
15% : "The Biden DOJ investigated Trump repeatedly.
9% : Acting Attorney General James McHenry sent a letter to more than a dozen officials connected to the Biden administration's DOJ investigations into Trump informing them that they had been fired.

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