Legal expert and MSNBC contributor Joyce Vance penned a searing essay on Thursday, accusing the Department of Justice of becoming completely corrupted by President Donald Trump's attempts to rewrite history.

On Wednesday, the Department of Justice fired two prosecutors who described January 6 as a "riot" in a sentencing memo that also mentioned Trump's name, according to reports. The sentencing memo was filed in a case against Taylor Taranto, a MAGA fan who was arrested outside of President Barack Obama's residence in Washington, D.C., after saying, "I gotta get the shot," reports indicate.

Vance argued in a new essay on her Substack, "Civil Discourse," that firing the prosecutors over their descriptions of January 6 is "utterly appalling."

"It completes the corruption of the Justice Department," she wrote.

"It’s hard to overstate how serious this is," Vance continued. "We’ve now seen revenge prosecutions, like those against former FBI Director Jim Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James...and now we are seeing prosecutors being disciplined for telling the courts the truth—in an era where this administration has increasingly withheld it from the courts."

"Donald Trump is intent on whitewashing history to improve his own position in it," Vance added. "Trump has rebranded January 6 criminals as patriots and attempted to restore them to the American mainstream. It’s a story about a new “lost cause,” transforming disloyal criminals into an idealized version of the story. Trump’s Justice Department is aiding and abetting in that Orwellian task."

Read the entire essay by clicking here.

Gayle King, a high-profile journalist at CBS News, is planning to depart as the anchor of "CBS Mornings" next year after a spate of attacks from President Donald Trump, according to a new report.

Variety reported on Thursday that King may shift to a new role at CBS News, which is now under the ownership of Paramount Skydance and the leadership of Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. CBS told the outlet that it would prefer for King to stay with the network and produce her own show, according to the report.

Trump has previously cheered reports that King's ratings were starting to drop, along with other television anchors with whom Trump disagreed.

"Moving King is a risky maneuver, especially because morning-TV is built on the relationships viewers build with the hosts," the report reads in part. "If audiences feel King was pushed out for no good reason, they could be ripe for the picking by rivals like NBC’s 'Today' or ABC’s 'Good Morning America.'"

The move may also occur at a time when other networks are moving high-profile anchors into other "less costly" positions, the report adds.

"BS’ O’Donnell, NBC News’ Hoda Kotb and Andrea Mitchell and Fox News’ Steve Doocy are among those who have shifted out of prominent daily anchor jobs in favor of new roles that keep them tethered to their networks, but give them less regular screen time," the report continues. "Veterans who have left their news employers over the past year include CNN’s Chris Wallace and Alisyn Camerota and Fox News’ Neil Cavuto."

Read the entire report here.

A prominent former Republican strategist made a stunning claim on Thursday about the party's latest "freak out" over subpoenaed phone records.

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice recently revealed that former special counsel Jack Smith had subpoenaed the phone records of several prominent Republicans. One lawmaker who was targeted, Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), said in a statement on X that theinvestigation was an attempt to "dismantle the Republican Party, destroy me and other elected members of Congress, and take down President Trump."

"I’ve seen this before," Scott continued. "Biden’s IRS released my tax records. Clinton’s DOJ came after me for going against Hillarycare. This is the same disgusting corruption."

Stuart Stevens, a senior advisor to the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, responded to Scott's statement with an eye-popping claim.

"The reason so many in the Republican Party are freaking out about their phone records before and during Jan 6th is that they know the insurrection was a coordinated attack involving all levels of the Republican Party," he wrote on X.

Stevens added that the phone records could show coordination between the White House, Senators and their staff, the Attorney General's Association, and major Republican donors.

"I’m not worried about anyone seeing my phone records around Jan 6th. Are you?" Stevens added.