I realize that it’s a waste of time to condemn the American right for hypocrisy because they’ve made it one of their primary organizing principles. However, once in a while, even now, the sheer audacity of it just takes your breath away:
Yes, you absolutely cannot have a DOJ employee assaulting cops. It’s an outrage.
Less than five years after urging rioters to “kill” police at the Capitol, a former Jan. 6 defendant is working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice, which has been dramatically remade under the second Trump administration.
NPR has obtained police bodycam footage from multiple angles of the former defendant and current administration official, Jared Wise, berating officers and calling them “Nazi” and “Gestapo.” NPR located the footage, which has not previously been published, in a review of thousands of court exhibits from Jan. 6 criminal cases, obtained through legal action by a coalition of media organizations.
The Department of Justice had introduced the footage as an exhibit in Wise’s trial. NPR also obtained the transcript of Wise’s testimony, in which he acknowledged that he repeatedly yelled “kill ’em” as officers were being attacked and tried to explain his actions. Wise was not convicted of any crimes related to Jan. 6, due to President Trump’s order to end all Capitol riot prosecutions.
Needless to say, Bondi isn’t the only hypocrite:
It boggles the mind how their brains don’t explode. But then I suppose that would require something like a conscience or intellectual consistency which none of them have.