The Trump administration has hired a convicted January 6 rioter who joined the mob that stormed the US Capitol to a sensitive Pentagon post, alarming insiders.
Before the appointment, Elias Irizarry pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of entering and remaining inside a restricted building during the insurrection. Prosecutors accused Irizarry, a 19-year-old freshman at South Carolina’s Citadel military college at the time of the riot, of entering the Capitol through a broken window while holding a metal pole.
