Career DOJ prosecutors are terrified and “losing their minds” after Trump won the 2024 presidential election in a landslide.
President Trump vowed to fire Special Counsel Jack Smith “within two seconds” if he won the election.
“We won the documents case. We’re in the process of winning all the other cases, I think. Even sometimes when we have to go to appeal. We got immunity at the Supreme Court. It’s so easy. I would fire him within two seconds. He’ll be one of the first things addressed,” Trump told radio host Hugh Hewitt last month.
Jack Smith last week asked Judge Chutkan to pause the January 6 case against Trump but his decision to back off isn’t going to shield him from an investigation into his inquisition.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the House Judiciary Committee have launched investigations into Jack Smith’s operation.
According to Politico, career DOJ lawyers – especially the special counsel prosecutors – are terrified after Trump won the election.
The stigma over ties to special counsels has some prosecutors afraid they will be railroaded.
Politico reported:
A collective sense of dread has taken hold at the Department of Justice, which drew Donald Trump’s rage like no other part of the federal government during his campaign.
Some career attorneys at DOJ are already considering heading for the exits rather than sticking around to find out whether threats from Trump and his allies are real or campaign bluster. Those threats range from mass firings of “deep state” lawyers to expelling special counsel Jack Smith from the country.
“Everyone I’ve talked to, mostly lawyers, are losing their minds,” said one DOJ attorney, who like most of the people interviewed for this article was granted anonymity to speak freely about colleagues and avoid retribution from the president-elect and his allies. “The fear is that career leadership and career employees everywhere are either going to leave or they’re going to be driven out.”
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