30 federal prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases have been dismissed by the Justice Department, The Washington Post reported Friday.
The employees were dismissed by interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, who before being appointed the top prosecutor in Washington served as a defense attorney for some of the Jan. 6 rioters and frequently pushed Trump's conspiracy theories that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
These prosecutors "were hired to permanent career positions after serving under special or short-term status as the office surged to manage nearly 1,600 prosecutions after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. The prosecutors remained under probationary status, which allows the firings without recourse under Justice Department policy, the people said," reported Spencer Hsu.
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All of this occurs at the same time that the FBI is beginning a purge of agents and officials who were part of special counsel Jack Smith's criminal prosecution of Trump for the plot to overturn the election.
It is also taking place "after acting attorney general James R. McHenry III earlier this week fired members of special counsel Jack Smith’s team that prosecuted Trump ... Separately, Martin has ordered an internal review of prosecutors’ handling of some Jan. 6 prosecutions, focusing on one of the most heavily litigated counts in the investigation that President Donald Trump has called a 'witch hunt' against him," the report continued.
The Senate is currently considering Trump's nomination of two devoted political loyalists, Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, to lead the Justice Department and FBI respectively.
