The acting attorney general fired more than a dozen officials who assisted special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutions against President Donald Trump.

The investigation into Trump was formally opened by the FBI on April 13, 2022, and was known inside the agency as "Arctic Frost."

Grassley shares in his opening remarks at FBI director nominee Kash Patel's confirmation hearing about emails his office received implicating an anti-Trump special agent with going outside his purview to initiate a federal investigation.

Top House Democrats say that the way in which Jack Smith's staffers were fired "very likely violated longstanding federal laws."

President Donald Trump has thrown the Justice Department's Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutions out the window. But a week before Trump became president, the Department essentially did the same to its own investigation of Trump.

About a dozen Justice Department employees who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation of Donald Trump are being fired.

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Mr. Trump has declared on Truth Social that Mr. Smith “should be prosecuted for election interference & prosecutorial misconduct.” The president has also called him a “career criminal.” He also reposted the radio host Mark Levin’s view that “Jack Smith must go to prison.”

The acting attorney general said these officials could not be trusted to "faithfully implement the president's agenda."

A federal judge slammed special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday and accused his office of seeking to deny two former co-defendants of President Trump a fair trial by releasing a final report on the

Federal prosecutors in Florida moved to dismiss Special Counsel Jack Smith's appeal, a move that moves the process a step closer to ending the classified documents case against President Donald Trump. The motion still has to be approved by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to The Hill newspaper.