Trump DOJ hired lawyer who compared Jan. 6 prosecutions to the Holocaust
Update: 2025-08-26
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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." NPR's Tom Dreisbach reports.
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