US President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he had ordered the removal of all federal prosecutors named by his predecessor Joe Biden from their positions at the Justice Department.
“Over the past four years, the Justice Department has become more politicized than ever before,” the Republican president claimed via Truth Social. The tycoon systematically attributed the criminal prosecutions against him to the “instrumentalization of justice” he criticized under the previous Democratic administration.
"Thus, I have ordered the immediate termination (of the terms) of all prosecutors remaining from the 'Biden era,'" he added, citing the need to "house" the justice system and "restore confidence" in it during America's new, "golden age" that is being heralded.
It is something of a custom in the US for each new president to replace the 93 federal prosecutors appointed by his predecessor.
After all, many of the prosecutors who were named during the Biden presidency did not even wait for the changing of the guard in the White House to leave their positions.
In late January, the acting attorney general fired several former associates of former special counsel Jack Smith, who handled the two federal prosecutions of Donald Trump — before they were dropped after his election victory in November. He explained that he could not “trust” them to “faithfully carry out the president’s agenda” because of their “significant role in the prosecutions” of him.
Source: protothema
