The Trump administration is standing by a Department of Justice official who was seen berating police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol.

Jared Wise, a DOJ senior adviser, can be seen on bodycam footage from the attack repeatedly yelling “kill ’em” at police officers during the attack, NPR reported Thursday.

“The Trump DOJ official, Jared Wise, admitted in his testimony to urging people to kill police, but suggested he didn’t mean it literally,” CNN’s Aaron Blake wrote Thursday morning on X.

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