U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters from the Resolute Desk after signing an executive order to appoint the deputy administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration in the Oval Office at the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by CHIP SOMODEVILLA / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
slot 777 onlineWASHINGTON, United States — FBI agents who participated in the investigations that led to now-abandoned criminal charges against President Donald Trump are expected to be fired, US media reported Friday.
Dozens of FBI agents involved in the probe of Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 and some supervisors are also “being evaluated for possible removal as soon as the end of Friday,” CNN said, quoting people briefed on the matter.
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Article continues after this advertisementNBC News said the purge includes more than 20 heads of Federal Bureau of Investigation field offices including those in Miami and Washington.
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The Justice Department fired a number of officials on Monday who were involved in the prosecutions of Trump.
Article continues after this advertisementA Justice Department said the officials were being terminated because the acting attorney general did not believe they “could be trusted to faithfully implement the president’s agenda.”
Article continues after this advertisementSpecial Counsel Jack Smith, who brought two federal cases against Trump, resigned earlier this month.
Article continues after this advertisementSmith charged Trump with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election won by Democrat Joe Biden and mishandling classified documents after leaving the White House.
Neither case came to trial and Smith — in line with a long-standing Justice Department policy of not prosecuting a sitting president — dropped them both after the Republican won November’s presidential election.
Article continues after this advertisementTrump, on his first day in the White House last week, pardoned more than 1,500 of his supporters who stormed the Capitol in a bid to block congressional certification of Biden’s victory.
FBI director Christopher Wray resigned following Trump’s reelection and the president has named Kash Patel, a former Trump advisor and staunch loyalist, to head the top US law enforcement agency.
Patel, at his confirmation hearing before a Senate committee on Thursday, was asked if he was aware of any plans to punish FBI agents who were involved in the investigations of Trump.
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