Friday, January 16, 2026

How Many Jan. 6 Rioters Work for the Federal Government?

There's at least one Jan. 6 participant currently working in the Trump administration, and the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee wants to know how many more may have been hired.

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A new report from Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee outlines crimes committed by Jan. 6 rioters since the 2021 attack on the Capitol.

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-- KCAU 9 News (@kcau9news.bsky.social) Jan 11, 2026 at 7:02 AM

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... In a Monday letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., inquired how many such individuals are employed at their respective departments.

Notably, Jared Wise, a former FBI agent and current Justice Department employee, faced charges of urging rioters to kill law enforcement officers during the 2021 attack on the Capitol. During his criminal trial, he was one of nearly 1,600 individuals associated with Jan. 6 to receive clemency from Trump on his first day back in office. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-16 06:36 PM

@#1

From the "Monday letter" ...
democrats-judiciary.house.gov (PDF)

... We know that several participants in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol have been rewarded with high-ranking positions in the Department of Justice (DOJ).

However, it remains unclear how many more have been invited to join the ranks of this Administration, including among the masked Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents and officers that have dragged, tackled, beaten, tased, shot, and killed citizens and non-citizens alike in communities across the country.

On January 6, 2021, Jared Wise, then a former Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), stormed his way into the Capitol Building. As he did so, he taunted and threated police officers defending the building and the ones inside, screaming: "You guys are disgusting. I'm former -- I'm former law enforcement. You're disgusting. You are the Nazi. You are the Gestapo. You can"t see it. ... Shame on you! Shame on you! Shame on you!" Mr. Wise goaded and cheered on other rioters who were beating police officers, repeatedly chanting: "Yeah, ---- them! Yeah, kill 'em!"1

Mr. Wise has never expressed remorse or contrition for his criminal actions.

When President Trump issued his blanket pardon for January 6th rioters, Mr. Wise escaped accountability for two pending felony charges, civil disorder and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers, as well as four other offenses, including unlawfully entering the Capitol.2

All these charges were dismissed when President Trump pardoned Mr. Wise and nearly 1,600 other rioters, including hundreds of cop beaters, on his first day in office.

Today, Mr. Wise serves as senior adviser in the office of the Deputy Attorney General, alongside another January 6th participant, Ed Martin, the U.S. Pardon Attorney and head of the DOJ Weaponization Working Group.3

A J6 enthusiast and defense counsel, Mr. Martin live-tweeted from the insurrection, likening the bloody mayhem to "Mardi Gras in DC."4

Together, Mr. Wise and Mr. Martin have led this Administration's efforts to fire, demote, and harass the dedicated career prosecutors, FBI agents, and support personnel who did their professional and civic duty holding to account the persons who committed crimes on January 6th. ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-16 06:52 PM

ALL OF THEM

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-01-16 07:03 PM

@#3

Yeah, but this one raised a concern for me ...

@#2 ...

... On January 6, 2021, Jared Wise, then a former Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), stormed his way into the Capitol Building. As he did so, he taunted and threated police officers defending the building and the ones inside, screaming: "You guys are disgusting. I'm former -- I'm former law enforcement. You're disgusting. You are the Nazi. You are the Gestapo. You can"t see it. ... Shame on you! Shame on you! Shame on you!" Mr. Wise goaded and cheered on other rioters who were beating police officers, repeatedly chanting: "Yeah, ---- them! Yeah, kill 'em!"1

Mr. Wise has never expressed remorse or contrition for his criminal actions. ...


And now ...

... Today, Mr. Wise serves as senior adviser in the office of the Deputy Attorney General ...



#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-17 12:51 AM

the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee wants to know how many more may have been hired.

So that they can all be fired and held accountable for their hateful and treasonous actions in two years.

Because that's the game we are playing right now.

Hope they enjoyed their moment. Then it's back under the rocks they go!

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-01-17 07:58 AM

I am not a nuance kind of thinker...after all this time I have come to the place that I see our government as being on the same path as the government under Putin, a path that imprisons and/or kills democratic thinking people. Trump is an enemy to our Constitutional Republic. It is all, or will shortly be, a gangster fascist enterprise. One doubts even one's social security will be protected from being a tool of repression and division.

#6 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-01-17 09:06 AM

The government is headed by a child-raping insurrectionist.

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-01-17 02:03 PM

A couple hundred of them formerly worked for FBI.

#8 | Posted by visitor_ at 2026-01-17 02:52 PM

A couple hundred of them formerly worked for FBI.
#8 | Posted by visitor_

Did we ever figure out why Trump's FBI was undercover at J6?
Any official explanation for their presence?

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-01-17 04:36 PM

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