This is the last attempt to end the criminal investigations which, for years, have targeted the American president. Surveys which have given rise to distinct indictments but which have never given rise to a trial and were finally abandoned.
Believing that he had been the subject of a real witch hunt between his two warrants as president, Donald Trump had promised to sanction the officials of the Ministry of Justice who had participated in the criminal surveys launched against him.
On Monday, the United States Ministry of Justice took action. The new judicial authorities said they had dismissed more than a dozen employees who had worked on criminal proceedings against President Trump.
Today, the interim prosecutor James Mchenry ended the employment of a certain number of officials from the Ministry of Justice who played an important role in the proceedings engaged against President Trump “said an official of the Ministry of Justice. “In the light of their actions, the acting prosecutor general does not trust these officials to help faithfully implement the president’s program. This action is consistent with the mission of putting an end to the militarization of the government.”
The career prosecutors who worked in The Jack Smith special prosecutor’s team. A fairly radical change.
Because if it is customary for a new administration to place men or women of trust in positions of responsibility, basic prosecutors remain traditionally within the ministry, whatever the presidential administration, and are not sanctioned in reason for their involvement in sensitive surveys.
The signal is clear: the purge has only just begun and will concern all civil servants perceived as disloyal to the re -elected president.
At this stage, it was not possible to know which prosecutors were precisely affected by the order, nor how many people who worked on the surveys concerning Donald Trump will finally be able to remain in their post. Difficult also to predict how many licensed prosecutors intend to challenge their dismissal.
These administrative sanctions against representatives of the law decide with the other Donald Trump decree published on the day of his inauguration. A historic decree in which the president has pardoned nearly 1,500 people accused in the riot of the Capitol. A massive leniency measure which also benefited people found guilty of violent attacks against the police.
The new Minister of Justice chosen by Mr. Trump, Pam Bondi, said during her confirmation hearing this month that she would not do a policy, but has not excluded the possibility of investigating opponents of Mr. Trump such as Prosecutor Jack Smith.
The latter did not wait for the takeover of Donald Trump. He resigned from the ministry at the beginning of the month after presenting a two -volume report on the two surveys concerning the efforts of Mr. Trump to cancel the presidential election of 2020. Another key member of the investigators’ team, Jay Bratt, also retired this month after being the principal prosecutor in the case of classified documents.
