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.

Grassley shares in his opening remarks at FBI director nominee Kash Patel's confirmation hearing about emails his office received implicating an anti-Trump special agent with going outside his purview to initiate a federal investigation.

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.

The Justice Department is firing "over a dozen" officials who were part of former special counsel Jack Smith's teams that prosecuted President Donald Trump, officials confirmed to ABC News Monday. Acting Attorney General James McHenry transmitted letters to the officials informing them of their termination,

Mr. Trump has declared on Truth Social that Mr. Smith “should be prosecuted for election interference & prosecutorial misconduct.” The president has also called him a “career criminal.” He also reposted the radio host Mark Levin’s view that “Jack Smith must go to prison.”

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.

Top House Democrats say that the way in which Jack Smith's staffers were fired "very likely violated longstanding federal laws."

Several sources told ABC News that the Trump administration is compiling a list of FBI agents who they believe should be fired or forced to resign in the coming days.

Trump administration officials are moving to fire FBI agents involved in investigations involving President Trump, according to AP sources.

President Donald Trump’s administration has launched a sweeping effort to fire a large number of FBI agents across the country who worked on investigations targeting the president and his supporters,