President Donald Trump appointed a Capitol rioter, who encouraged insurrectionists to "kill" police officers on January 6, as an adviser in the Department of Justice.
Jared L. Wise, a former FBI agent, will serve as the right-hand man to Ed Martin, director of the Weaponization Working Group, a task force Trump launched in February to investigate alleged abuses of the justice system by local and federal law enforcement, according to The New York Times. Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a memo that the group will examine "improper investigative tactics and unethical prosecutions" stemming from the Justice Department's probe of the Capitol attack.
