The boundless hypocrisy of MAGA stooges: Trump's #2 man in DOJ purges those who did what he did.
By Curt_Anderson February 15, 2025 10:57 am Category: Law (0.0 from 0 votes)
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After a mob of Donald Trump's supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Emil Bove led efforts by federal prosecutors in Manhattan to help the FBI aggressively investigate, identify and arrest rioters from the New York region.
Four years later, Bove is now the acting No. 2 official in President Trump's Justice Department. He has used that perch to denounce the Capitol riot investigation and spearhead a purge of prosecutors — and potentially of FBI agents — who worked on Jan. 6 cases.
The disconnect between Bove's aggressive stance to hold rioters accountable for the Jan. 6 assault and his current hostility around the investigation has troubled some former colleagues.
"At no point did I ever hear him or anybody else express concern about these investigations and these arrests that we were making," said Christopher O'Leary, who was a top counterterrorism official in the FBI's New York field office at the time. "We never heard any pushback from him or anybody in his office."
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After a mob of Donald Trump's supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Emil Bove led efforts by federal prosecutors in Manhattan to help the FBI aggressively investigate, identify and arrest rioters from the New York region.