Trumps attorney general should fire all DOJ employees who investigated former prez, Sen. Schmitt argues

After getting sworn into office, President-elect Donald Trump should embark on an effort to fire staffers at the Justice Department who worked on criminal cases against him, Sen.Eric Schmitt argued.The Missouri Republican who previously served as his state’s attorney general, contended that DOJ staffers who worked on the cases against Trump were embarking on an effort to undercut the will of the voters.

“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 ‘threat to democracy,’ was wrong, and so we’ll see where that goes,” Schmitt told NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday.Special counsel Jack Smith oversaw the DOJ’s two indictments against Trump, including the 40-count Mar-a-Lago document case and the four-count 2020 election subversion case.The indictment for alleged hoarding of classified documents was thrown out by a Florida judge and the 2020 election subversion case was revived from a hiatus shortly before the Nov.

5 election.Following Trump’s victory, the 2020 case was put on pause again.Now, Smith is reportedly planning to wind down both cases and step down before Trump roars back into the White House.

“[The indictments] all fell apart under the weight of the law.And so I do think there needs to be accountability.

I think that getting it back to crime-fighting is important, but there has to be accountability for these kinds of abuses,” Schmitt contended.As president, Trump will theoretically be allowed to tell the DOJ to stand down on the charges against him, which is why his legal team’s strategy was widely seen as an effort to delay as much as possible.In addition to Smith’s indictments against Trump, there are two indictments — the 34-count hush money case and the 10-count 2020 Georgia election tampering case — that are at the state level, and therefore beyond Trump’s reach ...