FBI fires more agents who investigated Trump, then reverses course, sources say

Source: Reuters

FBI fires more agents who investigated Trump, then reverses course, sources say

By Sarah N. Lynch and Andrew Goudsward
November 3, 2025 10:04 PM EST Updated 4 hours ago

Summary
* Agents fired amid ongoing personnel actions in Trump-related probes
* Senate subpoenas reveal FBI, DOJ employee names in investigation
* Lawsuit claims White House pressured FBI to fire agents who handled Trump-related cases
* Several of the terminations were later abruptly reversed

WASHINGTON, Nov 3 (Reuters) - The FBI has fired four agents who worked on former Special Counsel Jack Smith's team investigating President Donald Trump, although some of those terminations were later reversed, five people familiar with the matter told Reuters. … The move is the latest in a string of personnel actions targeting employees who worked on probes looking into Trump or his allies.

One of the fired agents, Jeremy Desor, has been targeted in recent days on social media after Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, a Republican, publicly released more than 1,000 pages of subpoenas from Smith's investigation, code-named "Arctic Frost," into attempts to keep Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election to his Democratic rival, Joe Biden. ... The subpoenas did not redact any of the names of the FBI or Justice Department employees who were involved.

Another fired agent, Jamie Garman, was initially placed on administrative leave several weeks ago, shortly after Grassley released other records showing that Smith had sought limited "tolling data" from the cell phones of eight Republican senators and one House of Representatives member in the days before and after the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

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