Blanche says DOJ, FBI has 'cleaned house' of agents, employees who assisted in Trump prosecutions
Blanche told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Grapevine, Texas, that approximately 200 DOJ employees have either left or been fired under the Trump administration for working on the high-profile cases.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Thursday the Trump administration has "cleaned house" at the FBI and Justice Department of the agents and employees who worked on cases targeting President Donald Trump.
Blanche told an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Grapevine, Texas, that approximately 200 DOJ employees have either left or been fired under the Trump administration for working on the high-profile cases.
He also commented that FBI Director Kash Patel has removed a string of agents who were connected to the Trump investigations but did not state how many agents have been fired so far.
“There is not a single man or woman at the Department of Justice who had anything to do with those prosecutions,” Blanche said. “Director Patel has cleaned house there too. There isn’t a single man or woman with a gun — federal agent — still in that organization that had anything to do with the prosecution of President Trump.”
The comment comes after two former FBI agents sued the Justice Department and FBI last week for alleged wrongful termination after they were fired last year over their involvement in the Biden administration's Arctic Frost investigation.
The former FBI agents claimed they were fired last October and November solely because of their involvement in the probe, and that their First Amendment rights to free association and speech were violated, along with their Fifth Amendment rights to due process, despite having little to do with the investigation.
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