President Donald Trump directly ordered the Justice Department to fire more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on the criminal cases against him, The Guardian reported Tuesday.

It has been reported Trump administration officials were moving to fire FBI agents and DOJ prosecutors who had been engaged in investigations involving Trump.

Acting Attorney General James McHenry fired more than a dozen officials who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s prosecutions of Trump because they could not be trusted to “faithfully” implement the president’s agenda, Fox News reported.

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