'No better person!' Ex-FBI agent accused of encouraging J6 mob gets new DOJ gig

The Department of Justice's newest employee is someone who helped storm the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.

Jared Wise, a former FBI agent, was assigned to the Weaponization Working Group, a task force that President Donald Trump created in February to go after his political enemies. The task force is led by Ed Martin, who Trump initially nominated to become the next federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C. Martin's name was eventually withdrawn because Martin supported Jan. 6 defendants.

Wise will advise Martin, although the specifics of that arrangement aren't clear, the Times reported. The report cited an anonymous source paraphrasing Martin's response to Wise's assignment, saying there is "no better person to serve on the weaponization task force than someone who had experienced the federal government being weaponized against him."

The DOJ charged Wise in June 2023 with civil disorder and assaulting police officers while at the Capitol. The indictment recounts one episode where Wise called four officers Nazis and Gestapos. When violence against the officers ensued, Wise told the assaulters, “Yeah, f--- them! Yeah, kill ‘em!”

Wise was also one of the 1,600 rioters who accepted a pardon from Trump during his first day in office. The Times reported that Wise was halfway through his criminal trial in Washington when Trump issued the pardons.

After leaving the FBI, Wise joined the conservative group Project Veritas, where he was assigned to "infiltrate teacher unions in Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Kentucky," a former employee told the Times.