On Sunday, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., suggested that one of President-elect Donald Trump’s first priorities in his new term should be to fire any Justice Department employees working on cases related to the Trump impeachment.
“First and foremost, the people involved in this case should be fired immediately,” Schmitt said in an interview with NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
“And the effort to keep President Trump off the ballot and put him in prison for the rest of his life because they don’t like his policies and continue to quote, unquote democracy, was a mistake, and so we’ll see where that goes.” said Schmitt.
His comments come as special counsel Jack Smith, who is prosecuting two cases against Trump – one related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and another related to his improper handling of classified documents after he left office in 2021 – plans to continue his work. . stop things Against Trump and resign before taking office.
A week after Trump was predicted to win the election, Smith asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan take a break from work related to the president-elect’s efforts to nullify the 2020 presidential election. Chutkan granted the petition shortly after the petition was filed.
Schmitt called for moderator Kristen Welker to fire anyone who worked on these jobs as a form of “accountability.”[The cases] all collapsed under the weight of the law. Therefore, I think that there should be accountability. “I think it’s important to bring him back to fighting crime, but there should be accountability for these kinds of abuses.”
While on the campaign trail this year, Trump has repeatedly attacked the Justice Department and detailed what he would expect from the department if elected.
First, Trump has often said he would pardon more than a thousand supporters charged with crimes related to the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
The president-elect also indicated during the campaign that he would use the Justice Department to target political opponents, including Smith.
On TruthSocial, Trump once shared a photo of Smith “He should be prosecuted for election interference and prosecutorial violations,” he said.
Trump after the September campaign he wrote in his post“WHEN I WIN, people who BEG will be prosecuted to the full extent of the Law, which includes long prison sentences. Please note that this legal disclosure applies to Lawyers, Political Operatives, Donors, Illegal Voters and Corrupt Election Officials.”
Schmitt said so did former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who Trump said he would do nominated him to be the next attorney general former Rep. Matt Gaetz, after his previous election overlooked“definitely” has its own sound.
“Oh, absolutely,” Schmitt said when asked if he would support Bondi.
He added: “I’m going to help Pam Bondi get the vote. I know her well. She’s a friend of mine. I’m here to respect Pam Bondi. She was a great attorney general in Florida. This is the house that President Trump runs. .”