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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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

The Justice Department fired officials who worked on the special counsel team that investigated Donald Trump in two separate criminal cases, a spokesman said.

Without an explanation, the DOJ asked an appeals court to end its challenge against a prior decision to throw out its prosecution of valet Walt Nauta and property manager Carlos De Oliveira.

Federal prosecutors in Florida moved to dismiss its appeal in the Mar-a-Lago case, pushing to bring an end to the classified documents case. The motion, which comes after the U.S. Attorney’s