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.

The acting attorney general fired more than a dozen officials who assisted special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutions against President Donald Trump.

Acting Attorney General James McHenry terminated employment on Monday of more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on former special counsel Jack Smith‘s team, gutting the office that led two historic criminal prosecutions of President Donald Trump.

The acting head of the Justice Department has fired more than a dozen officials and career attorneys who worked with former special counsel Jack Smith to charge and attempt to prosecute President Donald Trump for more than a year leading up to his November election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.

The Justice Department is firing "over a dozen" officials who were part of former special counsel Jack Smith's teams that prosecuted President Donald Trump, officials confirmed to ABC News Monday.

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

About a dozen Justice Department employees who worked for former special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation of Donald Trump are being fired.

House Democrats are demanding answers on the Justice Department’s move this week to fire more than a dozen officials involved in former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, arguing the action was in “complete contradiction" of President Trump’s effort to keep a “merit-based system" for government employees.

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The prosecutors, who were a part of special counsel Jack Smith's team ... the terminations were made by acting Attorney General James McHenry. The prosecutors who were affected by the terminations ...

The Justice Department has fired multiple employees who worked with Special Counsel Jack Smith on his criminal investigations into President Donald Trump. Since his inauguration last week, the Trump administration has moved quickly to reshape the federal workforce—including ordering all federal workers back to the office and purging departments of diversity,

Acting Attorney General James McHenry fired lawyers who assisted Jack Smith, saying he believes they “could not be trusted.”