{"id":31750,"date":"2025-01-28T05:01:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T05:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/trump-justice-department-fires-officials-who-worked-for-prosecutor-jack-smith\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T05:01:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T05:01:04","slug":"trump-justice-department-fires-officials-who-worked-for-prosecutor-jack-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/trump-justice-department-fires-officials-who-worked-for-prosecutor-jack-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump justice department fires officials who worked for prosecutor Jack Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Acting attorney general says career officials could not be trusted to \u2018faithfully implement the president\u2019s agenda\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Acting attorney general James McHenry on Monday fired more than a dozen federal prosecutors who worked on the two criminal cases against Donald Trump, saying they could not be trusted to implement the president\u2019s agenda for the justice department, two people familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>The precise extent of the firings were unclear because the department did not disclose names. At the time the cases were dismissed last year, after Trump won the election, special counsel Jack Smith had 17 prosecutors attached to his team.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/27\/trump-fires-justice-department-officials-jack-smith\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acting attorney general says career officials could not be trusted to \u2018faithfully implement the president\u2019s agenda\u2019 Acting attorney general James McHenry on Monday fired more than a dozen federal prosecutors who worked on the two criminal cases against Donald Trump, saying they could not be trusted to implement the president\u2019s agenda for the justice department, &#8230; <a title=\"Trump justice department fires officials who worked for prosecutor Jack Smith\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/trump-justice-department-fires-officials-who-worked-for-prosecutor-jack-smith\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump justice department fires officials who worked for prosecutor Jack Smith\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}