They prosecuted the Capitol rioters. Now the rioters and the DOJ are after them.

Reuters ^ | December 17, 2025 11:00 AM UTC | Mike Spector, M.B. Pell, Benjamin Lesser, Ned Parker and Isaac Vargas

[E. Pluribus Unum]

After Trump’s mass pardons of the U.S. Capitol rioters, some have gained influence inside the Justice Department, meeting with officials to push for prosecutions of the federal lawyers who once helped convict them, Reuters found. The January 6 prosecutors describe mounting threats, harassment and fear of lasting damage to the U.S. justice system.

The Capitol riot of January 2021 set off the largest criminal investigation in the Justice Department’s history. For federal prosecutor Ashley Akers, it was a defining moment in a seven-year career spent untangling complex cases, from wire fraud to domestic terrorism. She helped put away dozens of rioters – including some who swung bats and beat police officers.

Then the tables turned. On his first day back in office, U.S. President Donald Trump granted clemency to every criminally charged January 6 rioter. Akers resigned. And as rioters celebrated their freedom, a chilling threat arrived. One so grotesque it still lingers, said Akers: an online message invoking Seven, the 1995 thriller, imagining her decapitated head in a box.

Now, Akers and other prosecutors who handled Capitol riot cases face a new threat. Reuters has learned that pardoned January 6 rioters have been advising Justice Department officials how to pursue – and perhaps prosecute – the very prosecutors who helped put them behind bars.

Inside the Justice Department, a “Weaponization Working Group,” led by Ed Martin, a former defense lawyer for January 6 rioters, is drafting a previously undisclosed report that is re-examining the Capitol attack, according to four January 6 prosecutors and a review of government documents. When presented with Reuters’ findings, a department spokesperson confirmed the report is being drafted.

Martin and other Justice Department officials have held talks individually with at least three people charged in the Capitol attack since Trump’s inauguration, the three pardoned defendants...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The January 6 prosecutors describe mounting threats, harassment and fear of lasting damage to the U.S. justice system.

What goes around, comes around.

[teeman8r]

never forget the reason for the left’s treason, a peaceful protest to protect election integrity.

https://rumble.com/v181401-january-6th-rally-2021.html?mref=1htl22&mrefc=2

J6 rally footage

[Midwesterner53]

Excellent. Democrats hate us even more when we use their own tactics. Push hard on these retributions.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They misspelled “persecuted” and “protesters”.

[AnAmericanMother]

Or as Mr. Justice Codd said in “Uncommon Law,” “You should have thought of that before.”