The J. Edgar Hoover Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) building in Washington, on Monday, July 21, 2025. Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images

The FBI has forced out a special agent who previously helped oversee public corruption cases, including an investigation that became part of former special counsel Jack Smith’s probe into President Donald Trump, according to two sources familiar with the matter — another apparent casualty of the Trump administration’s retribution push.

Aaron Tapp, the special agent in charge of the FBI’s San Antonio office, was previously the deputy assistant director of the Criminal Investigative Division at FBI headquarters.

Tapp will be retiring from the bureau later this month, a third person briefed on the matter told CNN.

For a time he had oversight of prob

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