Trump DOJ hired lawyer who compared Jan. 6 prosecutions to the Holocaust [View all]

(NPR) A lawyer who represented violent rioters charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and compared their prosecutions to the Nazi genocide has been hired by the Department of Justice, where he is now working with the Trump administration's "Weaponization Working Group."

"These prosecutors are evil people," said attorney Jonathan Gross during a January YouTube livestream prior to joining the administration. "They will put you on a cattle car to Auschwitz without batting an eye."

Former Justice Department officials expressed concern about the hiring, particularly regarding the direction of the administration's probe into the alleged "weaponization" of law enforcement, given Gross' scant experience in criminal law and history of inflammatory rhetoric.

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