EXCLUSIVE: The Justice Department is firing more than a dozen key officials who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team to prosecute President Trump, Fox News Digital has learned.

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President Donald Trump has thrown the Justice Department's Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutions out the window. But a week before Trump became president, the Department essentially did the same to its own investigation of Trump.

Top House Democrats say that the way in which Jack Smith's staffers were fired "very likely violated longstanding federal laws."

The 47th president invokes the powers of Article II to fire the special counsel’s squad — but are his hands tied?

The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of government.”

Mr. Trump has declared on Truth Social that Mr. Smith “should be prosecuted for election interference & prosecutorial misconduct.” The president has also called him a “career criminal.” He also reposted the radio host Mark Levin’s view that “Jack Smith must go to prison.”

Fla., joined 'The Faulkner Focus' to discuss her initial reaction to the firings and how House Republicans are going to work to advance President Donald Trump's agenda.

Elected officials from Nebraska and Iowa shared their thoughts on the deadly midair crash involving a plane and an Army helicopter near Washington, D.C.

Federal prosecutors in Florida moved to dismiss Special Counsel Jack Smith's appeal, a move that moves the process a step closer to ending the classified documents case against President Donald Trump. The motion still has to be approved by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to The Hill newspaper.

Sen. Chuck Grassley opened the confirmation of Kash Patel for FBI director by revealing several emails regarding investigations into President Trump.