The ongoing purge of Justice Department officials who investigated President Trump and his allies continued this week, with the Justice Department firing more than 20 employees who worked on the investigations, sources told CBS News.
The firings, one source familiar with the terminations said, included more than 20 people who worked on former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents case against Mr. Trump and Smith’s investigation into Mr. Trump’s attempts to overturn election results in 2020.
There have been at least 35 firings of Justice Department employees who worked for Smith on the two investigations he oversaw, and at least 15 more could be fired, the source said.
Sources told CBS News that among those fired were paralegals who worked for Smith’s office, finance and support staff, and two additional Justice Department prosecutors in North Carolina and Florida. Three other top Jan. 6 prosecutors were fired in June.
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