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Hugo Lowell in Washington

Special counsel prosecutors were fired on instructions of White House

Trump at the White House last week.
Trump at the White House last week. Photograph: Abaca/Rex/Shutterstock

The justice department fired more than a dozen federal prosecutors involved in the two criminal prosecutions against Donald Trump after receiving instructions to do so from the White House, indicating the late-night purge was a political directive that deputized the justice department.

The termination of the career prosecutors were ostensibly at the direction of the acting attorney general, James McHenry, according to the notices sent to anyone remaining on the trial team of 18 who had worked for former special counsel Jack Smith.

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