Multiple senior FBI officials have been told they must resign from the bureau or be fired or demoted, sources familiar with the matter confirm to ABC News, a move further

Iowa, on Wednesday described several FBI internal emails that appeared to discuss the early stages of the bureau's investigation into President Donald Trump and his use of fake electors to overturn the 2020 election.

President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.

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

The DOJ official argued that the firings are in line with the Trump administration’s “mission of ending the weaponization of government.”

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump ’s pick for FBI director, Kash Patel, is facing a contentious confirmation hearing Thursday, with Democrats focused on his plans to overhaul the bureau and whether he'll seek legal retribution against Trump's political opponents.

Two senior Republican lawmakers released protected whistleblower disclosures Thursday revealing how an anti-Trump FBI agent went outside established agency protocols for opening probes to help launch the federal election interference case against the president.

The department’s motion to drop the case was signed by Hayden O’Byrne, who was appointed as the “interim” U.S. Attorney in Miami on Monday at the same time as the firings. O’Byrne, a member of the conservative Federalist Society, was hired as a prosecutor by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 2019.

Trump vowed to rid the Justice Department of what he says is partisan bias. Ex-officials say he's using retaliation and intimidation to thwart potential investigations of his second term.