The 47th president invokes the powers of Article II to fire the special counsel’s squad — but are his hands tied?

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 fired officials who worked on the special counsel team that investigated Donald Trump in two separate criminal cases, a spokesman said.

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department said Monday that it had fired more than a dozen employees who worked on Jack Smith’s criminal prosecutions of President Trump, moving rapidly to pursue retribution against lawyers involved in the investigations and signaling an early willingness to take action favorable to the president’s personal interests.

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.

The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of government.”

A federal judge slammed special counsel Jack Smith on Tuesday and accused his office of seeking to deny two former co-defendants of President Trump a fair trial by releasing a final report on the

The first volume of special counsel Jack Smith's report on the 2020 election case against President Trump was released last week.

Acting Attorney General James McHenry terminated employment on Monday of more than a dozen officials who worked on former special counsel Jack Smith's team.

In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda.”

The Trump Justice Department says it has fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal investigations into President Donald Trump.