The FBI has returned boxes of documents and files to President Donald Trump that were seized during the agency’s unprecedented raid on his Mar-a-Lago home during the Biden-Harris administration, reports said on Friday.
“The Department of Justice has just returned the boxes that Deranged Jack Smith made such a big deal about,” the president said on Truth Social, in reference to the former special counsel who charged him with federal crimes related to his storing of classified documents at his Florida home after he was no longer president.
“They are being brought down to Florida and will someday be part of the Trump Presidential Library,” he said. “Justice finally won out.”
“I did absolutely nothing wrong,” he said in his post. “This was merely an attack on a political opponent that, obviously, did not work well. Justice in our Country will now be restored.”
Alina Habba, the president’s counselor, said she personally placed the boxes aboard Air Force One.
“I just personally loaded the infamous “boxes” back onto Air Force 1 to head home where they belong. Justice has been and will continue to be restored in this country under President Trump. TRUTH AND JUSTICE ALWAYS WIN IN THE END. God Bless America,” she wrote on the X platform.
In January, the then-acting head of the Justice Department fired more than a dozen officials and career attorneys who worked with Smith to charge and attempt to prosecute Trump for more than a year leading up to his November election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.
Fox News Digital first reported that Acting Attorney General James McHenry wrote letters to the prosecutors stating that he was letting them go because they could not be trusted to ” faithfully implement the president’s agenda. ”
A DOJ official told Fox that McHenry transmitted a letter via email to each of the individuals.
Regarding the trust issue, one network legal analyst said during a show segment on Tuesday that every prosecutor who works with a special counsel does so on a voluntary basis—no one is assigned the task.
As such, prosecutors working with a special counsel generally have a personal interest in seeing the targeted individual(s) convicted. The implication is that the prosecutors McHenry dismissed were not fans of Trump and, therefore, he did not feel they could not be relied upon to faithfully execute their duties under his executive leadership.
Fox said it’s not clear how many DOJ prosecutors and officials were terminated, as a list of names was not immediately released.
“Today, Acting Attorney General James McHenry terminated the employment of a number of DOJ officials who played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump,” a DOJ official told Fox News. “In light of their actions, the Acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda.”
This action “is consistent with the mission of ending the weaponization of government,” the official told Fox News Digital.
The decision follows the Justice Department’s reassignment of more than a dozen officials during the first week of the Trump administration to a Sanctuary City task force and other initiatives. It also aligns with President Trump’s commitment to ending the perceived weaponization of the federal government.
Former Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Smith, a longtime Justice Department official, as special counsel in November 2022.
Smith, a former assistant U.S. attorney and chief of the DOJ’s public integrity section, led the investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents after leaving the White House and whether he obstructed the federal government’s probe into the matter.
Smith was also assigned to oversee the investigation into whether Trump or other officials and entities attempted to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election, including the certification of the Electoral College vote on January 6, 2021.
