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It’s becoming an even more real episode of Trump’s hit reality TV show, The Apprentice. The Washington Post ran an article yesterday headlined, “DOJ fires officials who worked on Jack Smith’s Trump investigations.” Which is exactly what Trump promised he would do. Of course, just because Trump said he’d do it about a million times, that didn’t stop the outrage machine.

You’re fired. Acting interim attorney general James McHenry informed a large group of DOJ lawyers they were fired, effective immediately, and explained that the Department “does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda.” No doubt. McHenry’s memo added, “This action is consistent with the mission of ending the weaponization of government.”

All the fired lawyers worked on the team prosecuting President Trump. The fog of war is thick. WaPo said, “It was unclear how many people on the special counsel team were terminated Monday.”

It’s not complicated. You try to sue your boss to get him fired, but the lawsuit gets thrown out and your boss gets a promotion. What do you think happens next?

Unlike career bureaucrats, DOJ officials serve at the pleasure of the president.

It wasn’t just the fired lawyers. Many more DOJ officials involved in or related to the investigations have been transferred to, shall we say, less desirable posts. In other words, they are effectively demoted without actually being demoted. Some are even being forced to work directly on the Trump agenda, having already been “transferred to a newly created division focused on sanctuary cities and immigration enforcement.”

In case you were wondering how they were reacting to these transfers, they don’t like it. High-profile, 23-year DOJ veteran Corey Amundson, who until yesterday was head of the Department’s public-integrity section, immediately resigned after being reassigned to the immigration group.

It’s not just the DOJ either. “The shake-up,” WaPo reported, “has hit nearly every major department.”

As with everything else we described today, the DOJ shakeup was historic. Stephen A. Saltzburg, a former Justice Department official who now teaches at George Washington University’s law school, said “We have never had a situation like this before.”

The media and Democrats are completely blindsided—they expected some firings, not an inconceivably radical, whole-of-government-wide restructuring.

“Jack Smith, the special counsel who brought two criminal cases against President Donald Trump, received $140,000 in pro bono legal services from a prominent Washington law firm before he resigned last month,” Politico reports.