Trump Justice Department fires employees involved in criminal investigation against President

This action is consistent with the mission of ending the weaponization of government.”

In a statement on Monday to The Associated Press, an anonymous Trump official echoed the president’s talking points in discussing the prosecutors’ dismissals

But for Mr. Trump’s election and imminent return to the Presidency, the Office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial,

the report said

Most of those bureaucrats are being fired. They’re gone. Should be all of them, but some sneak through,

he said