Veteran Federal Prosecutor Pens Ominous Trump Warning After Being Abruptly Fired

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before departing the White House, Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Michael Ben’Ary, a veteran federal prosecutor fired abruptly this week, left an ominous warning about President Donald Trump’s administration taped to his door after cleaning his office out on Friday.

“The leadership is more concerned with punishing the President’s perceived enemies than they are with protecting our national security,” wrote Ben’Ary in the note, obtained by Politico.

Ben’Ary, who has worked at the Justice Department for more than 20 years, was let go in the middle of his work on the case against Mohammed Sharifullah for his involvement in the ‘Abbey Gate’ Afghanistan airport bombing that left 13 U.S. service members dead in 2021.

“While I have the utmost confidence in my co-counsel,” Ben’Ary wrote, “my abrupt, apparently thoughtless removal with no period of transition will hurt this case.” Notably, Sharifullah is the only co-conspirator facing charges within the U.S..

“Justice for Americans killed and injured by our enemies should not be contingent on what someone in the Department of Justice sees in their social media feed that day,” he continued, referencing his surpise at the news of his termination, which came only hours after a conservative commentator highlighted his past role as senior counsel to Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, one of Trump’s chief adversaries from former President Joe Biden’s administration.

Maya Song, the top deputy in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Eastern District of Virginia and another former aide to Monaco, was fired just last week.

Rounding out his note, Ben’Ary pleaded with his colleagues, asking them to “continue to do the right thing, in the right way, for the right reasons,” because “our country depends on you.”