Less than three hours after a right-wing influencer revealed a blog post critical of Donald Trump, the DOJ fired U.S. Attorney Will Rosenzweig. He received an emailed letter signed by Pam Bondi, then the attorney general, dismissing him from his position as the U.S. attorney for Miami, effective immediately. No reason was provided, reported The New York Times.
Mr. Rosenzweig has now sued the Justice Department
along with Todd Blanche, who now runs the department, and Jason A. Reding
Quiñones, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, asking for
financial damages and his job back. In doing so, he joined a growing list of
former prosecutors and federal agents who have gone to court in an effort to
fight back against the widespread purge of law enforcement officials deemed to
be disloyal to the president.
During Mr. Trump’s second term, agents and prosecutors
have been fired for any number of reasons. Some were
seasoned veterans who lost their jobs while trying to protect
subordinates from being dismissed. Others were accused, sometimes incorrectly,
of having worked
on criminal cases involving the president. Many worked
on cases stemming from the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Mr. Rosenzweig’s firing was one of several that shared
a different twist: right-wing commentators claimed to be behind them. On the
morning after he was terminated, Ms. Winters reposted a message from another
far-right influencer, Laura Loomer, announcing the news. Ms. Winters’s message,
punctuated by a smiley-face emoji, declared: “Got this guy fired.”
Many of Ms. Winters’s posts have since been deleted,
but lawyers for Mr. Rosenzweig included screenshots of them in their lawsuit.
In the posts, she said that Mr. Rosenzweig had “smeared” Mr. Trump in his
writings by calling him “mentally unfit” and a “white supremacist.”
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