Twenty Department of Justice (DOJ) employees who worked with special counsel Jack Smith have been fired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The terminated staff includes two prosecutors, 12 support staff and six U.S. marshals who assisted with classified documents and the 2020 election investigations against President Donald Trump, an official confirmed<\/a> to The Daily Caller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More than a dozen officials who worked with Smith were fired<\/a> in January, while Smith himself resigned before<\/a> Trump took office in January. Both of the cases were dismissed<\/a> after Trump won the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joseph Tirrell, who was director of the Departmental Ethics Office, wrote<\/a> on LinkedIn Monday that he was terminated by Attorney General Pam Bondi, sharing the letter he received in a post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cUntil Friday evening, I was the senior ethics attorney at the Department of Justice responsible for advising the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General directly on federal employee ethics,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI was also responsible for the day-to-day operations of the ethics program across the Department. I led a small, dedicated team of professionals and coordinated the work of some 30 other full-time ethics officials, attorneys, paralegals and other specialists across the Department of Justice, ensuring that the 117,000 Department employees were properly advised on and supported in how to follow the Federal employee ethics rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n