Every Justice Department or FBI worker who labored on the felony investigations into President Donald Trump has been fired, resigned, or took early retirement, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche mentioned Thursday.
“There is not a single man or woman at the Department of Justice who had anything to do with those prosecutions,” Blanche mentioned throughout a hearth chat at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC.
At the Justice Department, Blanche mentioned, that quantity quantities to “over 200” folks. NCS has not independently verified that quantity.
Since the second Trump administration started, the Justice Department and FBI have gutted a number of workplaces whose work touched on high-profile circumstances, included the two prosecutions of Trump led by former particular counsel Jack Smith. Both circumstances that Smith introduced in opposition to Trump — one for retention of labeled data and a second for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election — had been dropped earlier than Trump returned to workplace in January 2025.
Their ousting fulfilled a Trump marketing campaign promise: to rid the division of what he claimed was “weaponization” of justice in opposition to him and his supporters.
The firings have affected dozens of legal professionals, FBI brokers, and numerous members of assist employees, NCS has reported.
In some circumstances, the employees received termination letters that mentioned they couldn’t be “trusted” to “faithfully” implement Trump’s agenda due to their involvement in his prosecutions.
“You played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump. The proper functioning of government critically depends on the trust superior officials place in their subordinates,” then-acting Attorney General James McHenry wrote in a single such letter in early 2025. “Given your significant role in prosecuting the President, I do not believe that the leadership of the Department can trust you to assist in implementing the President’s agenda faithfully.”
Most just lately, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen employees concerned in the labeled paperwork investigation.
The transfer was a part of a wider inside investigation into actions taken in Smith’s investigation, which he launched after discovering data that confirmed the FBI used subpoenas to acquire his communication data and the communications of now White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.