DOJ Employees Who Worked on Prior Trump Prosecutions Pushed Out

In November 2025, ProPublica reported, based on its own analysis, that more than fifty career FBI officials had been fired or pushed out since January 2025. The reported group included senior executives with counterterrorism and intelligence experience as well as line agents who had worked on politically sensitive matters, including January 6 prosecutions and investigations involving the President. In March 2026, then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche stated publicly at the Conservative Political Action Conference that "over 200" Department of Justice employees who had worked on prior prosecutions of the President had been fired, resigned, or taken early retirement; CNN, who reported his remarks, noted it had not independently verified that figure. Litigation challenging individual removals and patterns of removals remained pending in multiple U.S. District Courts.