A right-wing conspiracist who joined the Department of Justice to punish Jan. 6 prosecutors is making explosive allegations about its current acting head.
Jonathan Gross, a political appointee who left the DOJ earlier this year after a turbulent tenure in the civil rights division, has gone public with allegations that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche engaged in "sabotage" by purposely holding back high-profile indictments while Pam Bondi was attorney general, waiting until she was gone to unleash them and claim credit, reported NPR.
"Todd Blanche was in charge for over a year and sabotaged Pam Bondi so he could swoop in and take her job," Gross wrote on X. "Nothing stopped Blanche from dropping these indictments while Bondi was there."
Blanche, who had been deputy attorney general until he was elevated after Bondi was fired, has recently overseen a flurry of headline-grabbing actions at DOJ, including the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the criminal charge against former FBI Director James Comey over an Instagram post.
"He's auditioning for AG," Gross posted on X. "Don't be fooled."
Blanche has publicly denied that allegation.
"I don't audition for this job," he told CBS News. "I've been the deputy attorney general for over a year, okay? This is not an audition."
But Gross isn't stopping there – he has also questioned the legal quality of Blanche's splashy new cases, calling the SPLC indictment "a very sloppy job" and predicting the charges will ultimately be thrown out.
Gross, a former rabbi, joined the DOJ's civil rights division last summer after representing Jan. 6 rioters despite having no criminal defense experience, and he won fans among MAGA allies like former congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene after comparing those prosecutions to the Holocaust.
"These prosecutors are evil people," Gross said in January 2025, prior to joining the Trump administration. "They will put you on a cattle car to Auschwitz without batting an eye."
He soon became disillusioned with the working group, which included former FBI agent-turned-Jan. 6 defendant Jared Wise, and Gross has publicly complained the operation had no budget or staff, but now he fears his former colleagues might seek to punish him for speaking out.
"I just think it would be very ironic if they came after me," he said. "But I'm willing to do it."
