Acting Attorney General James McHenry terminated employment on Monday of more than a dozen officials who worked on former special counsel Jack Smith's team.

Trump fires DOJ officials who worked with Jack Smith as probe launched into Jan 6 prosecutions: Live - Justice Department officials who prosecuted Trump removed because they cannot be ‘trusted’ to ‘faithfully’ implement president’s agenda.

The Justice Department fired officials who worked on the special counsel team that investigated Donald Trump in two separate criminal cases, a spokesman said.

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.

Smith's report provides new details about election-interference charges against Trump, says he believes election victory saved him from conviction.

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.

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.

Acting Attorney General James McHenry on Monday fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on the two criminal investigations into Donald J. Trump for the special counsel Jack Smith, saying they could not be trusted to “faithfully implement” the president’s agenda, a Justice Department spokesman said.

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

The report calls Trump's claims that the special counsel was influenced by Biden for political reasons "laughable."

Special counsel Jack Smith’s report gives new insights into the investigative process, challenges his team faced and the reasoning that guided their decisions.

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