NEW: Trump DOJ Cleans House, Fires Multiple Senior FBI Employees

Several senior FBI officials, including the directors of the bureau’s Washington and Miami field offices, were escorted out of their offices on Friday after being fired by the Trump Department of Justice. Several prosecutors who worked on the politicized investigations into President Trump and the January 6 Capitol protests were also terminated.

Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a memo to the acting FBI director Friday evening directing him to terminate eight senior bureau employees effective immediately. Acting Director Brian Driscoll was further instructed to identify all current and former FBI employees who worked on January 6 cases for a formal review.

In the memo titled “Terminations,” which was obtained by Fox News, Bove laid out that the “subversive” employees cannot be trusted to carry out President Trump’s agenda. “This memorandum sets forth a series of directives, authorized by the Acting Attorney General, regarding personnel matters to be addressed at the Federal Bureau of Investigation,” Bove wrote.

The deputy attorney general then instructed Driscoll to fire eight employees by 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, February 3. “I do not believe that the current leadership of the Justice Department can trust these FBI employees to assist in implementing the President’s agenda faithfully,” Bove, a former defense lawyer, wrote in the memo.

The document referenced day one executive directives made by President Trump, which instructed the DOJ to end politicized investigations. “The American people have witnessed the previous administration engage in a systemic campaign against its perceived political opponents, weaponizing the legal force of numerous Federal law enforcement agencies and the Intelligence Community against those perceived political opponents in the form of investigations, prosecutions, civil enforcement actions, and other related actions,” Bove’s memo noted. “This includes the FBI.”

Bove added that the FBI’s “prior leadership actively participated in what President Trump appropriately described as ‘a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years’ with respect to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.”

“The weaponization of the FBI’s security clearance process is similarly troubling,” the memo continued. “So too are issues relating to the FBI’s reticence to address instructions and requests from, among other places, the Justice Department.”

In addition to the terminations, Bove directed Driscoll to identify “all current and former FBI personnel assigned at any time to investigations and/or prosecutions” relating to “the events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021” and United States v. Haniyeh, a terrorism case against six Hamas leaders charged with planning and carrying out the October 7 attacks in Israel.

“For each employee included in the list, provide the current title, office to which the person is assigned, role in the investigation or prosecution, and date of last activity relating to the investigation or prosecution,” Bove directed. “Upon timely receipt of the requested information, the Office of the Deputy Attorney General will commence a review process to determine whether any additional personnel actions are necessary.”

The review could lead to hundreds of additional firings due to the nature of the bureau’s sprawling, four-year investigation into the January 6 Capitol protests. Agents across the country participated in heavily armed raids against January 6 protesters for years, resulting in 1,600 arrests and lengthy prison sentences for mostly non-violent trespassing crimes.

“We have some very bad people over there. They came after a lot of people like me, but they came after a lot of people,” President Trump said in regards to the FBI on Friday. “I’ll have to see what is exactly going on after this is finished,” he added. “But if they fired some people over there, that’s a good thing, because they were very bad. They were very corrupt people, very corrupt, and they hurt our country very badly with the weaponization. They used, they used the Justice Department to go after their political opponent, which in itself is illegal. And obviously it didn’t work.”

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