FBI agents, prosecutors fear remuneration of January 6, forgiven by Trump

Forgiven on January 6 and his followers have been whipping in line with increasing Violent attack on the United States Capitol.

“All your prosecutors deserve a rope!” Read a publication in X.

“These two creatures of the viscous swamp will face justice,” reads another publication.

“You are the next,” says another.

Since President Trump gave the general clemency of January 6, regardless of whether they were convicted of assaulting the police, or if they had previous convictions for crimes, including forced violation, homicide and domestic violence, the threatening messages have proliferated against the officials of the law.

Police officers defended the Capitol on January 6as well as the FBI agents and federal prosecutors who investigated the attack say they are increasingly concerned about violent compensation against them and their families by the defendants, who have been emboldened by Trump’s forgives.

“I have spent my career processing violent criminals, organized transnational crimes, violent crimes, crimes of firearms, trafficking crimes,” said a federal prosecutor, who spent years prosecuting January 6. “I have never felt less certain than with these defendants.”

“I am worried about my own security. I am worried about the safety of my colleagues,” said this prosecutor, who requested anonymity due to the fear of the reprisals of the Trump administration, as well as the protesters of January 6 who processed . “I am worried about the safety of the victims.”

Morality among prosecutors and investigators who worked in the cases of January 6 was already low. The Trump administration He has fired More than two dozen prosecutors who worked in the cases of January 6. Trump officials have also launched a Great scope consultation In the roles of FBI employees in the investigations of January 6, which leads to fear of a political purge of thousands of agents.

These movements have given the officials responsible for enforcing the law that investigated the attack of the Capitol Little or no faith that the Trump administration investigated the threats they currently face.

“Many of us no longer report these threats, because we do not believe that they care, unless one of us is killed,” said an official who worked on January 6 and also requested anonymity for fear of retaliation.

The victims in the case of January 6 include the approximately 140 police officers who were injured in the violent attack.

The former officer of the Metropolitan Police Department, Michael Fanone, was attacked with an electric gun and suffered a heart attack during the riots. Trump’s forgiveness released the man who led the stunned gun to Fanone’s neck, Daniel Rodríguez, who had declared himself guilty and was fulfilling a 12 -year prison sentence. From the forgives, Fanone said he was requesting protection orders against Rodríguez and the other men who attacked him on January 6.

“The fact that I have to do this, to try to pay my family some degree of protection, is outrageous,” Fanone told NBC Washington. “But we are in an era of the illegality of the government.”

FBI employees who sued the Department of Justice for a questionnaire that asked about their participation in the investigations of January 6, alleged that “his personal information has already been published on January 6 criminals convicted in ‘Dark Websites’ (also known as ‘Dark Web’)”.

“Publications on social networks are circulating that they are asking for violence against FBI staff,” said Natalie Bara, president of the FBI Association of FBI without profit, in a press conference Announcing another demand that seeks to block the dissemination of agents’ identities. “This rhetoric is not only irresponsible, it is dangerous.”

Some defendants of January 6 have called FBI agents and prosecutors by their name online.

The former leader of proud children, Enrique Tarrio, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison for sedicious conspiracy, and forgiven by President Trump. Since then he has asked for remuneration and the arrest and prosecution of an FBI agent who investigated his case.

Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the proud of the extreme right, was sentenced for sedicious conspiracy and sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the attack of January 6.

Since he received a complete and unconditional forgiveness from Trump, he has asked for remuneration and the arrest and prosecution of an FBI agent, who investigated his case.

“People who did this need to feel the heat, need to be placed behind bars and should be prosecuted,” Tarrio said in an interview with the extreme right -wing program Infowars shortly after their forgiveness.

“Success,” added Tarrio, “will be a remuneration.”

Tarrio’s rhetoric echoes the new leaders of the Department of Justice, as well as Trump himself.

Ed Martin is the interim prosecutor of the United States of the Columbia district, and a conservative activist who has been a supporter for a long time of the defendants of January 6.

The interim lawyer of the United States of the Columbia district, conservative activist Ed Martin, recently served at the Board of the Patriot Freedom Project, a controversial non -profit organization that advocates the defendants of January 6. In 2024, Martin He gave prizes As of January 6, the defendants, including a protester with a history of racist and anti -Semitic extreme comments, which was described by prosecutors as a “Nazi sympathizer.”

Martin was in the multitude of protesters outside the Capitol on January 6 and published on social networks after the building had been raped, “noisy crowd but nothing out of control. Ignore the #fakenews.” He was not accused of any crime related to January 6.

Martin has also suggested that violence against the police that day may have been justified.

“The more we discovered how staged and managed this was, the more we have to have less trial for someone who hits a policeman,” Martin said in a Podcast interview In 2024.

Martin and the Department of Justice did not respond to requests for NPR comments.

Meanwhile, Martin has asked Chuck Schumer, the main Democrat in the United States Senate, to cooperate with an investigation into the comments that Schumer made almost five years ago. Schumer said the conservative judges of the Brett Kavanaugh and Neal Gorsuch Supreme Court would pay the price “if they vote to maintain abortion restrictions. Schumer soon returned that comment and said: “I was no way making a threat.” The Washington Post First reported Martin letter to Schumer.

During the presidential campaign, Trump himself published a message on social networks that “police should be accused and that protesters should be released.”

The current and previous officials of the Department of Justice said that the public support of the Trump administration for the rioters seems to have inflamed the threats against the police, the agents of the FBI and the prosecutors.

“This level of enmity and animosity directed towards prosecutors, not to say that it has never happened before, but I have never experienced it so consistently and at such a high level,” said the federal prosecutor that NPR spoke.

This prosecutor said that before they felt that their heads of the Department of Justice would take measures to protect them from these threats. Not anymore.

“I felt that things were taken very seriously at any level they could, and people were doing everything possible,” this prosecutor told NPR. “I don’t feel that way now.”

“I don’t feel any support from the department,” said the official of the Department of Justice who spoke with NPR. “We do not exist in their minds at this time, beyond considerations about saying goodbye.”