Trump’s AG should seek 'accountability' from DOJ staffers who investigated him, Sen. Schmitt argues

President-elect Donald Trump should plan to fire staffers at the Department of Justice who worked on the criminal cases he has faced since leaving office four years ago, Republican Senator Eric Schmitt, Mo., argued on NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday. 

Schmitt, a former attorney general of Missouri, said that the DOJ staffers who had worked on the criminal cases against Trump were in effect undercutting the will of the voters. 

“And anybody 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 who continue to cast him as a ‘threat to democracy,’ was wrong, and so we’ll see where that goes,” Schmitt told Kristen Welker, host of “Meet the Press.”

The DOJ’s two indictments against Trump, both overseen by special counsel Jack Smith, include the 40-count Mar-a-Lago document case and the four-count 2020 election subversion case, according to the New York Post. 

“[The indictments] 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 contended.