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-- Shares Facebook Twitter Reddit Email Donald Trump has made it clear that he plans to oust Special Counsel Jack Smith almost immediately after taking office, but a new report suggests that the president-elect won't be satisfied with just one pink slip. The Washington Post spoke to members of Trump’s transition who said that Trump plans to fire everyone who worked on Smith's two doomed cases against him. Smith wound down those cases days after Trump's win and has reportedly made plans to be out of office before Trump is inaugurated.
A source on Trump's transition team who spoke to the Post said the president-elect “wants to clean out ‘the bad guys.’” Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt seemed to echo that rhetoric in an official statement from team Trump. Related "Really scary": Experts alarmed by Trump plot to "weaponize" DOJ by mass firing career officials “President Trump campaigned on firing rogue bureaucrats who have engaged in the illegal weaponization of our American justice system, and the American people can expect he will deliver on that promise,” she told the outlet.
Trump also talked of enemies within the Department of Justice when nominating Pam Bondi for attorney general. “For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting Crime, and Making America Safe Again.
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