EXCLUSIVE: A previously identified anti-Trump FBI agent allegedly broke protocol and played a critical role in opening and advancing the bureau’s original investigation related to the 2020 election, tying President Trump to the probe without sufficient predication.

The 47th president invokes the powers of Article II to fire the special counsel’s squad — but are his hands tied?

President Donald Trump has thrown the Justice Department's Jan. 6 Capitol riot prosecutions out the window. But a week before Trump became president, the Department essentially did the same to its own investigation of Trump.

EXCLUSIVE: The Justice Department is firing more than a dozen key officials who worked on Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team to prosecute President Trump, Fox News Digital has learned.

Mr. Trump has declared on Truth Social that Mr. Smith “should be prosecuted for election interference & prosecutorial misconduct.” The president has also called him a “career criminal.” He also reposted the radio host Mark Levin’s view that “Jack Smith must go to prison.”

Federal prosecutors in Florida moved to dismiss Special Counsel Jack Smith's appeal, a move that moves the process a step closer to ending the classified documents case against President Donald Trump. The motion still has to be approved by the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, according to The Hill newspaper.

The Justice Department is firing "over a dozen" officials who were part of former special counsel Jack Smith's teams that prosecuted President Donald Trump, officials confirmed to ABC News Monday. Acting Attorney General James McHenry transmitted letters to the officials informing them of their termination,

Top House Democrats say that the way in which Jack Smith's staffers were fired "very likely violated longstanding federal laws."

Plus: Kash Patel, Trump's pick to lead the FBI, and his role in Jan. 6 misinformation | Trump pledges sweeping tariffs on steel, semiconductors

Grassley shares in his opening remarks at FBI director nominee Kash Patel's confirmation hearing about emails his office received implicating an anti-Trump special agent with going outside his purview to initiate a federal investigation.

President Donald Trump's administration launched a sweeping round of cuts at the Justice Department yesterday that appeared to