President Donald Trump has spent months chipping away at the barriers that have long protected the Justice Department from political interference. But now federal prosecutors and legal observers are bracing for what comes next as he escalates that effort rapidly.

Veteran lawyers in a Virginia U.S. attorney’s office fear that the ouster of their boss last week - after a White House push to prosecute two of the president’s political foes - could portend even more overt efforts by Trump to dictate the outcome of investigations.

Other federal prosecutors in Maryland, Georgia and western Virginia who are currently handling politically sensitive probes may soon face similar pressure to fall in line.

“I just want people to act. They have to act,” Trump told reporters outside the White House Sa

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