Posted on 01/31/2025 5:14:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The Trump administration is set to expand a purge of career law enforcement officials, with dozens of FBI agents who worked on January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack and Trump-related investigations as well as some supervisors being evaluated for possible removal as soon as the end of Friday, according to people briefed on the matter.
The changes highlight how the new administration has moved quickly to deliver on President Donald Trump’s vow to strike back at the Justice Department and FBI that he claims have been weaponized against him. Trump has falsely accused agents of abuse in their court-ordered search of his Mar-a-Lago home and of their treatment of Capitol rioters.
Interim leaders at the Justice Department have spent the past week drawing up lists of people whose work at the bureau has earned disfavor with Trump for a variety of reasons. Agents and analysts have been warned by FBI leadership that they may be asked to resign or face termination.
Agents who worked the investigation of Trump’s alleged mishandling of classified documents, and those who investigated the roughly 1,600 rioters charged or convicted connected to the violent Capitol attack have been concerned they could face retribution for doing work they were assigned to do.
The Justice Department and FBI declined to comment.
According to communications obtained by CNN, more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on January 6 cases had their employment terminated by the Justice Department Friday.
The prosecutors who lost their jobs had worked in the US attorney’s office in Washington, DC, on a temporary basis on Capitol riot cases. But at the end of the Biden administration, their jobs were being converted to permanent status, according to a DOJ memo obtained by CNN and circulated across the DC US...
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Awe ratts. I got excited thinking it was today-Friday.
Trump needs to be out front of this and repeat again and again Schumer's statement that the intelligence community would come after him
Don’t think Trump was impressed with the J6 questions attacking Kash.
Should have been ethical.
Question-how many of them?
Never give up the con.
I have zero boo hoo for any of them. What happened was criminal. Lucky they aren’t suffering more.
Remember if Kamala Harris won, it would have been the last “free” election in this country. We were this close.
BTTT
Hopefully he’ll overreach.
Someone slit Melania’s gowns up, taking the labels.
Trump has falsely accused agents of abuse in their court-ordered search of his Mar-a-Lago home and of their treatment of Capitol rioters.
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No bias here! /s
who is that? He looks familiar i think-
Nothing false about it. But then, this is CNN.
Strzok and the girlfriend.
“ Trump has falsely accused agents “
Falsely accused???
CNN has learned nothing. Cue up another multimillion dollar lawsuit . . .
These are all moles and would be leakers to NYT.These are the very same type of people that sabotaged Trump 1.0.
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