The Trump administration is reportedly planning a sweeping purge of FBI agents linked to Jan. 6 investigations, with estimates suggesting nearly 75% of the bureau may be dismissed. Officials say even agents handling minor charges risk termination, igniting growing alarm over the agency's capacity to manage crucial federal cases.

President Donald Trump is conducting a purge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), but it is possible that the number of law enforcement agents who will be terminated is greater than was previously believed.

Trump's inner circle intends to fire any FBI official with knowledge of what happened on January 6, according to NBC News correspondent Ryan Reilly. With three-quarters of the FBI assigned to such cases-which was necessary due to the large number of defendants-just a quarter of the agency's personnel would remain to manage investigations with federal law enforcement.

A former official, according to Reilly, told MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace on Friday that several individuals were involved in handling those cases, even though they were low-level misdemeanors.

The most prevalent, according to Reilly, were the allegations of assaulting a federal officer. On his first day in office, Trump granted a pardon to those charges.

"And even people who were skeptical of the Justice Department's handling of those overall were behind those cases. And I think most of the American public would be, too. When you have a cop getting beat by a rioter, that's something that most people say that should be prosecuted by the federal government."

According to him, the specifics of the instances and the actions taken by the agents will be important.

"Ryan Reilly, I want to make sure I got this down as you said: three-fourths of the Bureau touched these cases in one way or another?" Wallace inquired.

Per The Raw Story, Reilly stated that the information was a rough estimate received from a former official and corroborated the specifics.

During the majority of the two election cycles that have just passed, Trump and Republicans have spent a significant amount of time arguing that Democrats want to "defund the police" and accusing them of neglecting to "back the blue."

A new nonprofit has arisen to aid Justice Department workers who are facing termination or possible continued employment in Trump's administration and are grappling with ethical dilemmas. In all of the federal agencies that have been affected by Trump's purge, the organization intends to emulate its efforts.