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Hugo Lowell in Washington and Lauren Gambino

Trump justice department fires officials who worked for prosecutor Jack Smith

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Jack Smith speaks in Washington in 2023. Photograph: Kevin Wurm/Reuters

The acting attorney general, James McHenry, on Monday fired more than a dozen federal prosecutors who worked on the two criminal cases against Donald Trump, saying they could not be trusted to implement the president’s agenda for the justice department, two people familiar with the matter said.

The precise extent of the firings were unclear because the department did not disclose names. At the time the cases were dismissed last year, after Trump won the election, special counsel Jack Smith had 18 prosecutors attached to his team.

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