He said it out loud.
“Kill ‘em,” Jared Wise screamed — not once, not twice, but repeatedly — as Capitol Police officers were trampled, kicked, and crushed on January 6, 2021. He called the officers “Nazis.” He called them “the Gestapo.” He watched fellow rioters slam shields into their faces, knock them to the ground, and drag them through the crowd. And he yelled for more.
“Kill ‘em.”
Now, he works for the Department of Justice.
A BADGE OF LOYALTY
Jared Wise, once a supervisory FBI agent, was indicted in 2023 for his role in the insurrection. By 2024, he was standing trial in a Washington courtroom, charged with inciting violence against officers he once swore to support.
But in January 2025, hours after Donald Trump returned to power, Wise received a presidential pardon — one of over 1,500 handed out like commemorative coins to January 6 rioters. Trump didn’t just forgive them. He elevated them.
Wise is now serving as a counselor to Ed Martin, head of the newly-formed Weaponization Working Group — a task force created by Attorney General Pam Bondi to root out what they call “politicized prosecutions” against Trump and his loyalists.
In plain English: the man who chanted “Kill ‘em” as police bled out on Capitol steps now works inside the DOJ, helping review the very cases that once tried to hold him accountable.
THE SOUND OF SCREAMING
Let’s not pretend this is a fluke.
Wise wasn’t a confused tourist or a misguided voter. He was a former FBI agent who turned on his colleagues. His words weren’t cryptic. He didn’t say “Hold the line” or “Fight for freedom.” He said “Kill ‘em.”
That is not metaphor. That is not political speech. That is an incitement to murder.
And now he’s back inside the fortress, but this time he’s not yelling through a barricade — he’s reviewing case files. He’s sitting behind a DOJ desk. He has an email address that ends in .gov.
If that doesn’t make your stomach turn, read it again.
WHAT THIS MEANS
Wise isn’t just a grotesque symbol — he’s a test case. If the DOJ can absorb a pardoned insurrectionist with violent rhetoric and no remorse, it can absorb anyone. Retribution is no longer whispered. It’s operational.
Pam Bondi’s Weaponization Working Group is not designed to protect justice. It’s designed to destroy it. It exists to hunt prosecutors, chill dissent, and review past prosecutions of Trumpworld. It’s a truth commission in reverse — not to uncover injustice, but to punish those who tried to prevent one.
And now it has a man on staff who once called the Capitol Police “Nazis” and told rioters to kill them.
THE PARDONED AND THE PROMOTED
The phrase “institutional rot” doesn’t even begin to describe what this is.
This is sabotage in a suit. This is blood on the resume. This is how autocracies form — not in one violent moment, but when the violent are welcomed back through the front door and handed a badge.
And you’d better believe others are watching.
The Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, the Telegram channels filled with vengeance fantasies — they’ve seen what happens when you break the law for Trump. Not prison. Not shame.
Promotion.
They will call Jared Wise a hero now. They already do. He appears on stage at CPAC panels. He is admired on MAGA forums not because he’s sorry — but because he’s not. Because he meant what he said.
“Kill ‘em.”
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?
Don’t ask if this is a line-crossing moment. That line vanished years ago. Ask instead:
Who else is next in line for a desk at DOJ?
Which prosecutors are about to be investigated by the people they once convicted?
And what happens when the man who screamed “Kill ‘em” starts helping decide who gets prosecuted next?
We’re not watching the rehabilitation of an extremist. We’re watching the normalization of political violence — not just tolerated, but rewarded.
You cannot chant “Kill ‘em” during an attempted coup and then be handed a role in the Justice Department unless the people in power want to send a message.
And they just did.
Loud and clear.
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