Trump's DOJ Purge Triggers Panic Among Democrats

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) is firing dozens of career prosecutors, sparking alarm among his critics.

Critics have accused Trump of departing from established norms with his sweeping shakeup of the DOJ.

The firings of Democrat-loyal DOJ officials have played a central role in Trump’s efforts to end the weaponization of the justice system.

Trump’s rise as a politician led Democrats to embrace the justice system as a defense of “our democracy.”

Democrats welcomed politically motivated criminal investigations into Trump in an effort to derail his return to the White House.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has fired several prosecutors who were involved in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s politically explosive investigations of Trump in 2024.

Smith’s efforts divided the nation.

Some cheered Smith as a warrior for justice, and others condemned him as a political hatchet man.

Trump recently quipped about his reversal of fortunes since becoming president again, remarking:

“I was the hunted, and now I’m the hunter.”

After the FBI spent years pursuing Trump, the agency has turned to targeting his critics, such as James Comey and John Brennan.

Meanwhile, the DOJ is purging employees believed to be hostile toward the Trump administration.

Justice Connection, a new group formed to protect career employees who feel threatened by the new administration, estimates that over 200 have been fired.

In a statement to The Hill, Stacey Young, executive director and founder of the group, said:

“The senseless terminations at the Justice Department are growing exponentially.

“The very institution created to enforce the law is trampling over the civil service laws enacted by Congress.

“It’s shameful, and it’s devastating the workforce.”

One of the prosecutors who was fired without explanation, Maureen Comey, is the daughter of FBI director James Comey, a notorious Trump critic.

In a letter to her colleagues, Maureen Comey cast her firing as an arbitrary act of revenge.

She attempted to cast Trump as a “tyrant” who is threatening the rule of law.

Comey urged her colleagues to do their jobs “without fear or favor.”

“Our focus was really on acting ‘without favor,’” Comey said in the memo.

“That is, making sure people with access, money, and power were not treated differently than anyone else; and making sure this office remained separate from politics and focused only on the facts and the law.”

Skepticism of impartial justice has long animated Trump’s movement.

Many see Trump as the victim of a witch hunt spurred on by critics, including Maureen Comey’s father.

James Comey notoriously declined to pursue criminal charges against Hillary Clinton despite her illegal use of an email server to send top secret information.

The Trump administration has also fired immigration judges.

At least one state judge in Wisconsin is facing criminal charges for helping an illegal alien evade the law.