In response to the Trump administration firing prosecutors and FBI agents in the Biden administration who came after Donald Trump and others concerned about election fraud in 2020, Attorney General Kris Mayes posted on X that she would hire them. Mayes is prosecuting several of Trump’s allies over their work regarding the botched 2020 election, including Trump’s former attorneys Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, with Donald Trump himself an unindicted co-conspirator. While other prosecutors across the country have backed off on targeting Trump and those around him since he won the 2024 presidential election, Mayes is doubling down on her antagonism.
“My message to all FBI agents and federal prosecutors who are being wrongfully fired by Trump: come see me about a job,” Mayes said. “We are hiring at the AZ Attorney General’s office and we actually support law enforcement.” She linked to a CBS news article about the terminations of the employees involved in the prosecutions of Trump and the J6 protesters. There were hundreds of comments after her post, almost all very critical of her.
State Senator Jake Hoffman (R-Queen Creek), founding chair of the Arizona Freedom Caucus and chair of the Senate Committee on Director Nominations, posted his disagreement on X. “Imagine being so moronically tone deaf … While America has just overwhelmingly re-elected @realDonaldTrump for the near sole purpose of draining the swamp … Lunatic Leftist AG Kristin Mayes is essentially begging the corrupt, fired DOJ staff to join her team … @KrisMayes is a clown,” he said.
Anticipating the firings, the Biden administration attempted to secure the ongoing employment of employees operating under the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington, D.C. who were hired temporarily to work on the J6 prosecution, by converting them into permanent employees immediately prior to the presidential administration transition.
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