Donald Trump has justice officers fired up against him

According to media reports, the US Ministry of Justice dismisses several employees who were involved in the investigations against the now incumbent President Donald Trump. The provisional Minister of Justice James Mchenry has doubts “that they help with the faithful implementation of the president’s agenda,” reported the “Washington Post” and the ABC News broadcaster, citing the ministry circle. Trump’s Minister of Justice Pam Bondi still has to be confirmed by the Senate, and Mchenry’s authority will be headed.

Under Trump’s predecessor Joe Biden, the then Minister of Justice Merrick Garland had used the special investigator Jack Smith. Smith’s mission was to examine Trump’s handling of secret documents after leaving the White House in 2021 as well as his alleged attempts to tip the result of the 2020 presidential election.

After Trump’s election victory on November 5, the two criminal proceedings were abandoned. Smith justified this with the customs that the Ministry of Justice did not investigate the current president – he himself left the ministry. In a report, which was handed over to the Congress a few days before Trump’s swearing-in a few days before Trump, the special investigator emphasized that in his opinion, the special investigator only escaped thanks to his re-election of a conviction for election fraud.

The Republican was charged with election fraud and his role in the storm on the US capitol on January 6, 2021. In the event of a conviction, he would have threatened decades of prison sentence. Trump repeatedly rejected the allegations and presented himself in the election campaign as a victim of a politically motivated “witch hunt” in which Smith was also involved.