WASHINGTON — FBI Director Kash Patel this week fired two agents who were identified as having worked with Jack Smith, the special counsel who led the federal investigations into Donald Trump, according to two people with knowledge of the situation.

The agents, both bureau veterans with excellent performance records, had been identified as associates of Smith in documents obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, those people said.

Grassley has been working closely with the Trump administration to purge the FBI of officials he has cast as part of a Biden-era weaponization of the agency against Trump and other Republicans. Most of the agents he has targeted had little say over the cases they were assigned to work on.

The two agents dismissed this we

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