Trump Says He’ll Fire ‘Some’ FBI Agents Who Handled Jan. 6 Cases

Feb. 7, 2025, 8:57 PM UTC

President Donald Trump said he planned to fire “some” but not all of the FBI employees who were involved in the criminal prosecutions of his supporters in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

“I’ll fire some of them because some of them were corrupt,” Trump said during a White House press conference Friday, a day after the Federal Bureau of Investigation provided the US Justice Department with a list of the employees who worked on the cases.

“I got to know a lot about that world, that we had some corrupt agents, and those people ...

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