By Molly Claire Goddard
4:28am PDT, Jun 4, 2025
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The federal prosecutor who put the January 6 rioters behind bars is leaving the government.
After
Donald Trump issued pardons to all of his supporters who
stormed the Capitol in 2021, Assistant U.S. Attorney
Greg Rosen revealed he's leaving the Justice Department for another job at a private law firm partially due to his outrage over the president's bold actions.
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Greg Rosen served as the chief of the Justice Department's Capitol Siege Section and secured partial or full convictions in all jury trials related to the
attacks on January 6, 2021. However, when Donald Trump returned to the White House, the rioters were set free. Now, he's leaving his government job behind.
"The message that [the pardons] send is that political violence towards a political goal is acceptable in a modern democratic society," Rosen explained in a CBS News interview. "That, from my perspective, is anathema to a constitutional republic."
"It sends a terrible message to the American people," he continued. "Individuals who were duly — and appropriately — convicted of federal crimes ranging in culpability are immediately let loose without any supervision, without any remorse, without any rehabilitation to civil society."
Despite his frustration with the current people in power, Rosen explained of his departure, "I felt like it was time for a change — and a time to take what I've been doing and what I've learned over the course of 15 years in state and federal practice — and bring it to the private sector, where I can benefit clients who are being scrutinized by the government."
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Greg Rosen condemned Donald Trump and the MAGA base for claiming the juries who convicted the rioters were biased in their decision-making when the evidence was well-documented.
"The reason those juries convicted — and the reason those judges convicted individuals — was not because of some bug in the due process," the lawyer explained. "It was because the evidence was overwhelming. It was the most videotaped crime in American history."
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When Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, many employees at the Justice Department who handled the January 6 prosecutions and disbanded the Capitol Siege Section were either let go or demoted.
"To see those talented prosecutors be marginalized or removed from office is an affront to the independence of the department," Greg Rosen noted of the people he's worked with for years.
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Not only did Donald Trump pardon the rioters, but the Republican leader also floated the idea of financial compensation for the people who were charged.
"A lot of the people that are in the government now talk about it because a lot of the people in government really like that group of people," Trump said in an
interview with
Newsmax host
Greg Kelly in March. "I took care of them. I said I was going to and I did."
"These people are incredible people," he claimed. "They were treated so unfairly, so horribly. Some of them didn't even go into the building."
