The Trump administration that moves the FBI agents of the fire involved in Trump’s investigations, AP sources say

Washington (AP) – Trump administration officials are moving to say at least some of the FBI agents involved Investigations involving President Donald TrumpTwo people familiar with the plans said Friday.

It was not clear how many agents could be affected, although dozens of researchers were involved in several consultations that played Trump. The officials who act in the management of the Administration have been working to identify individual employees who participated in politically sensitive investigations for the possible termination, said the people who insisted on the anonymity to discuss private conversations.

A third person familiar with the situation said that US prosecutors received instructions from a call this week to provide the names of prosecutors and agents who had any participation in the hundreds of cases against protesters in the Capitol on January 6, 2021. It wasn’t. He made clear the call why the names were needed, said the person who also spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal issues.

Any mass shot would be a great blow to the historical independence of the White House of the main federal agency for the application of the Law of the Nation and reflect the persistent Trump resolution to bend the community of application of the law and intelligence to its will. It would be part of a surprising pattern of federal government employees, after the forced ouulters of a group of high -ranking executives of the FBI earlier this week, as well as a massive dismissal of the Department of the Prosecutor’s Office on Justice on Jack Smith’s special lawyer team investigated Trump.

The FBI agents association described the planned shots “The scandalous actions of endless officials are fundamentally disagreeing with the objectives of application of the law described by President Trump and his support for FBI agents.”

“Potentially discarding hundreds of agents would severely weaken the capacity of the office to protect the country from national security and criminal threats and, ultimately, will risk establishing the office and its new leadership for failure,” said the association in a release.

It was not clear immediately which resource could take any fired agent, but the office has a well -defined process for the endings and any abrupt action that overlooks the protocol presumably could open the door to a legal challenge.

When he was pressed during his confirmation hearing on Thursday, Trump’s choice for FBI director, Kash Patel, said he was not aware of any plan to finish or punish FBI employees who were involved in Trump’s investigations . Patel said that it was confirmed that it would follow the FBI internal review processes to take action against employees.

Asked by Democratic Senator Cory Booker if he would reverse any decision before his confirmation that this standard process did not follow, Patel said: “I do not know what is happening right now, but I am committed to you, senator and your colleagues, which I will honor the due FBI process “.

Before being nominated for the director’s position, Patel had commented at least one podcast appearance about the existence of what he called “conspirators” Anti-Trump in the government and the media.

Trump has expressed for years the department of the FBI and the justice for investigations that shaded his presidency, including an investigation into the ties between Russia and his 2016 campaign, and continued in the last four years. Shot an FBI director, James Comey, in the midst of Russia’s investigation and then replaced his second, Christopher Wray, A few weeks after winning the elections last November.

When asked at the White House on Friday if it had something to do with the scrutiny of the agents, he said: “No, but we have some very bad people there. He was armed at a level that no one had ever seen before. They came after Many people, like me, but came after many people. “

He added: “If they shot some people there, that’s good, because they were very bad.”

The FBI and Smith team investigated Trump about their efforts to cancel the presidential elections of 2020 and his Appreciation of documents classified in its Mar-a-Lago farm in Florida. Both cases resulted in accusations that were withdrawn after Trump’s presidential victory due to the long policy of the Department of Justice that prohibits the federal prosecution of a acting president.

The Department of Justice also presented charges against more than 1,500 Trump supporters In relation to the Capitol Riot, Although Trump on his first day in office granted clemency For all of them, including those convicted of violent crimes, through pardons, commutations of sentences and accusations.

This week, the Department of Justice triggered more than a dozen prosecutors who worked in Smith investigations, and a group of FBI’s high rank executives, including several directors and executive leaders of the field offices of the big cities, which They will resign or retire or be fired Monday.

FBI spokesmen and the Department of Justice declined to comment.

The shots would be made by the will of the interim director of the FBI Brian Driscoll, who has indicated that he opposes the idea, people said.

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Associated Press Zeke Miller and Jim Mustian writers contributed to this report.