The Justice Department is firing "over a dozen" officials who were part of former special counsel Jack Smith's teams that prosecuted President Donald Trump, officials confirmed to ABC News Monday.

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

The report calls Trump's claims that the special counsel was influenced by Biden for political reasons "laughable."

Mr. Trump has declared on Truth Social that Mr. Smith “should be prosecuted for election interference & prosecutorial misconduct.” The president has also called him a “career criminal.” He also reposted the radio host Mark Levin’s view that “Jack Smith must go to prison.”

The Trump Justice Department says it has fired more than a dozen employees who worked on criminal investigations into President Donald Trump.

Trump fires DOJ officials who worked with Jack Smith as probe launched into Jan 6 prosecutions: Live - Justice Department officials who prosecuted Trump removed because they cannot be ‘trusted’ to ‘faithfully’ implement president’s agenda.

The Justice Department employees had been involved in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that led to Trump's classified documents and Jan. 6 cases.

The Justice Department fired officials who worked on the special counsel team that investigated Donald Trump in two separate criminal cases, a spokesman said.

The termination of more than a dozen lawyers who worked with the special counsel, Jack Smith, came hours after the department’s most senior career official was reassigned.

Acting Attorney General James McHenry on Monday fired more than a dozen prosecutors who worked on the two criminal investigations into Donald J. Trump for the special counsel Jack Smith, saying they could not be trusted to “faithfully implement” the president’s agenda, a Justice Department spokesman said.

The first volume of special counsel Jack Smith's report on the 2020 election case against President Trump was released last week.