Trump should fire DOJ employees who investigated his cases, GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt says
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., on Sunday suggested that one of President-elect Donald Trump’s first priorities in his new term should be to fire any staff at the Justice Department who worked on cases that involved charges against Trump.
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., on Sunday suggested that one of President-elect Donald Trump’s first priorities in his new term should be to fire any staff at the Justice Department who worked on cases that involved charges against Trump.
“First and foremost, the people involved with this should be fired immediately,” Schmitt said in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
“And anybody part of this, this effort to keep President Trump off the ballot and to throw him in jail for the rest of his life because they didn’t like his politics, and who continue to cast him as a quote, unquote threat to democracy, was wrong, and so we’ll see where that goes,” Schmitt added.
Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., said he supports Pam Bondi, Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department.Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images fileHis remarks come as special counsel Jack Smith, who was prosecuting two cases against Trump — one related to his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and one related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents after he left office in 2021 — plans to wind down the cases against Trump and resign before he takes office.
In the week after Trump was projected to win the election, Smith asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to hit pause on the 2020 election case. Chutkan granted the motion shortly after the request was filed.
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