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Presidential Pardons for Sale! DOJ Whistleblower Reveals All.

October 16, 2026

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The DOJ Whistleblower Who Says the System Didn't Change

Jonathan Gross has an unusual resume: congregational rabbi in Omaha, then law school at 37, then a civil rights lawyer who quit his job to defend January 6 defendants for free or nearly free. Then, improbably, he became senior counsel to Harmeet Dillon, the Trump-appointed head of the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice. He lasted about 11 months. By his account, he left because he discovered that the people running DOJ under Trump were not interested in investigating weaponization—they were the same people who had built the weaponized system in the first place.

The Capitol Siege Unit Was Closed Immediately

Gross went into DOJ with one agenda: get to the bottom of how the government went after January 6 defendants. He wanted to be put in charge of the Capitol Siege Unit, the special task force created to prosecute J6 cases, which he estimates was funded with at least a billion dollars and drew resources from FBI field offices in all 50 states. "They closed the Capitol Siege unit immediately," he says, "and they buried all that stuff." He compares it to the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark—the ark gets put in a warehouse and forgotten.

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (00:32) **Rabbi Turned DOJ Whistleblower** - Tucker introduces Jonathan Gross, a former congregational rabbi who became a senior counsel at the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.
  • 2 (05:12) **The Weaponization Agenda That Died in Days** - Gross explains his single goal upon joining the DOJ and how quickly he realized the new administration wasn't serious about it.
  • 3 (10:20) **The "Trial Penalty" as a Stalinist Tactic** - Gross details how the DOJ uses coercive plea deals to destroy lives, citing specific cases of punishment for speaking out.
  • 4 (18:33) **Lawsuit Against the Attorney General** - Gross details his lawsuit, *J6ers Were Destroyed by Weaponization v. Blanche*, which uses President Trump’s own words against his administration.
  • 5 (21:39) **Todd Blanche: The System Personified** - Gross provides a detailed critique of Attorney General Todd Blanche’s background and why he is the wrong person to lead reform.
  • 6 (30:57) **The Hollow "Weaponization Working Group"** - Gross describes the DOJ’s official weaponization task force as a complete sham that produced no results.
  • 7 (42:55) **The Kirk Moore Case: A Tale of Selective Justice** - Gross uses the case of a doctor who gave placebos during COVID to illustrate how the system works.

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Show Notes

Civil rights lawyer Jonathan Gross took a job at Trump’s DOJ hoping to stop the weaponization of government. What he saw once he got there was shocking.


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