President Trump called on the Justice Department to fire all U.S. attorneys left over from the Biden administration.
In a post Tuesday night on his Truth Social platform, Mr. Trump said the DOJ has been “politicized like never before.”
“Therefore, I have instructed the termination of all remaining ’Biden Era’ U.S. Attorneys. We must ‘clean house’ immediately, and restore confidence,” Mr. Trump wrote in a post laced with his signature all-capital-letters wordings. “America’s Golden Age must have a fair Justice System - that begins today!”
The Washington Times reached out to the Justice Department for comment.
Last week, the White House sent termination notices to numerous U.S. attorneys around the country who had been nominated by former President Joseph R. Biden.
Ninety-three U.S. attorneys, the top federal law-enforcement officers, oversee cases in the country’s 94 federal court districts (two districts share one U.S. attorney).
It is standard practice for a president to terminate U.S. attorneys from the previous administration. However, many Justice Department officials across the country have already resigned or been fired since Mr. Trump was sworn into office.
This also includes the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, a Trump appointee, who resigned last week after being asked by the Justice Department to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams.
The Justice Department had fired several attorneys involved in prosecuting Mr. Trump.
Those attorneys worked on former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation, which led to now-dismissed indictments against the president over his handling of classified documents, his efforts to contest the 2020 election, and the lead-up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Mr. Trump has long battled with the Justice Department and campaigned on overhauling the department to end its political “weaponization.”
The new president previously said during a press conference that he planned to fire some FBI agents involved in investigating the Jan. 6 riots, calling them corrupt.
“I will fire some of them,” Mr. Trump said on Feb. 7. “We had some corrupt agents, and those people are gone or they will be gone, and it will be done quickly and very surgically.”
• Kerry Picket can be reached at kpicket@washingtontimes.com.