Republican Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) has called for the firing of all Department of Justice (DOJ) who worked on politically motivated indictments against President Donald Trump.
Sen. Schmitt, who served as Missouri’s attorney general before entering the Senate last year, argues that DOJ employees must be held accountable for using taxpayer-funded government resources to try to keep Trump off the ballot.
“You saw all these cases resurrected,” Schmitt said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
“They all fell apart under the weight of the law.
“And so I do think there needs to be accountability.
“I think that getting it back to crime fighting is important, but there has to be accountability for these kinds of abuses.”
Schmitt was then asked whether he was referring to the removal of special prosecutor Jack Smith or something more.
“I think accountability means, first and foremost, the people involved with this should be fired immediately,” he said.
“And anybody a part of this, this effort to keep President Trump off the ballot, and to throw him in jail for the rest of his life because they didn’t like his politics, and to continue to cast him as a ‘threat to democracy,’ was wrong, and so we’ll see where that goes.”
“But I just don’t think in this country, unless we want to be a banana republic, I don’t want to see that happen,” Schmitt added.
“You can’t have the Justice Department abused in this way.”
As everyone should know at this point, Trump was indicted four separate times in the run-up to the election.
Two of those prosecutions were by the DOJ under President Joe Biden.
All of the indictments against Trump have either been suspended or dismissed since he won the 2024 election.
The New York case that found him “guilty” of 34 counts of falsifying financial documents.
Sentencing in the case was scheduled for this month.
However, George Soros-funded Democrat Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who led the so-called “hush money” case against Trump, asked last week for sentencing to be postponed indefinitely.
Schmitt also praised Trump’s attorney general nominee Pam Bondi.
Bondi replaced former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) after he withdrew from contention last week.
As AH, Bondi will end the “weaponization” of the DOJ, Schmitt said.
It comes as Trump has vowed to gut the unelected “deep state.”
House Republicans have been working toward this goal with their select committee on the weaponization of government since gaining the majority two years ago.
Ending the ability of the deep state or any administration to use lawfare against an opponent would be a big step back from what many feel is the edge of banana republic status for the U.S.
Bondi was one of Trump’s lawyers during his first impeachment trial.
She also served as Florida attorney general until 2019.
Last year, Bondi vowed to prosecute the prosecutors who indicted Trump.
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