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JUST IN: Trump Plans To Fire Jack Smith’s Entire Team ‘Within Two Seconds’

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November 23, 2024

President-elect Trump plans to fire Jack Smith and his entire team from the Department of Justice “within two seconds” of taking office in January.

During an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Trump was asked whether he intends to fire himself or fire Smith outright. Smith, who was appointed by Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2022, has charged the president-elect with multiple felonies relating to his questioning of the 2020 election results. He also brought a separate case against Trump for mishandling classified documents, though the charges were thrown out by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon earlier this year.

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“It’s so easy. I would fire him within two seconds,” Trump told Hewitt. “He’ll be one of the first things addressed.”

The Washington Post, citing sources close to the Trump transition team, soon reported on additional details concerning the president-elect’s plan for Smith and his team. “President-elect Donald Trump plans to fire the entire team that worked with special counsel Jack Smith to pursue two federal prosecutions against the former president, including career attorneys typically protected from political retribution,” the outlet reported.

Smith — who has the distinction of having one of his cases unanimously overturned by the Supreme Court — has largely operated in secret. His taxpayer-funded team was double the size of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team in the bogus Russian collusion investigation, which employed a dozen Democrat lawyers.

Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch previously filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the DOJ for records disclosing the names of Jack Smith’s team of lawyers and staffers. The Biden DOJ has since filed a motion with a federal court to keep the names of Smith’s team members secret.

Once Trump takes office, he will have the ability to fire Smith immediately, who has previously claimed that he intends to resign in order to avoid being terminated.“I don’t think they’ll impeach me if I fire Jack Smith,” Trump told Hewitt. “Jack Smith is a scoundrel.”

In addition to firing Smith’s team, the Trump DOJ intends to launch its own investigation into the 2020 election results and associated allegations of fraud. The president-elect’s new nominee for attorney general, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, has previously called for corrupt prosecutors to face prosecution themselves.

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