This is the reason why Donald Trump fired officials involved with his legal investigation

The US Department of Justice announced on Monday the dismissal of several of his career lawyers who participated in judicial investigations against the current US president, Donald Trump.

In particular, the lawyers collaborated in the investigation by special prosecutor Jack Smith that led to the indictment of Trump for the handling of classified documents and for his relationship with the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 by supporters of the now president.

The charges were eventually dropped after Trump’s election victory in November 2024 following a policy of not prosecuting presidents in office.

‘Today acting Attorney General James McHenry fired several Justice Department officials who played a significant role in the prosecution of President Trump,’ a Justice Department spokesman was quoted as saying by US television network NBC.

“In view of their actions, the acting attorney general does not trust these individuals to help faithfully implement the president’s orders. This action has to do with the mission to put an end to the instrumentalisation of the government,” he added.

A source familiar with the move cited by NBC said that the individuals in question are career prosecutors Molly Gaston, J.P. Cooney, Anne McNamara and Mary Dohrmann. All of them would be career federal civil servants, so they cannot be dismissed directly and a legal process must be opened.

Former prosecutor Joyce Vance has called it ‘simply unacceptable’ for prosecutors to be fired just because of the cases they have worked on. “It goes against the rule of law. It’s against democracy,” she argued on NBC.

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