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The
Department
of
Justice
placed
two
federal
prosecutors
on
administrative
leave
after
filing
a
sentencing
memorandum
that
described
the
January
6
riot
as
a,
well,
riot.
The
Party
told
you
to
reject
the
evidence
of
your
eyes
and
ears.
It
was
their
final,
most
essential
command.
Continuing
to
moonlight
as
a
witness
protection
program
for
violent
insurrectionists,
Pam
Bondi’s
DOJ
came
down
on
Carlos
Valdivia
and
Samuel
White
of
the
D.C.
U.S.
Attorney’s
Office,
following
a
sentencing
memo
proposing
27
months
for
January
6
alumnus
Taylor
Taranto.
Outside
of
his
January
6
resume,
which
earned
him
a
pardon
from
Trump,
Taranto
was
arrested
after
bringing
“two
guns,
a
machete
and
hundreds
of
rounds
of
ammunition”
to
Barack
Obama’s
house
—
after
Donald
Trump
posted
the
former
president’s
address
—
and
posting
a
picture
of
himself
with
the
caption
“We
got
these
losers
surrounded!”
Taranto
was
found
guilty
of
illegal
gun
possession
and
false
information
stemming
from
another
public
claim
suggesting
he
was
going
to
blow
up
the
National
Institute
of
Standards
and
Technology.
But
then
Valdivia
and
White
prepared
a
sentencing
memo
seeking
27
years
and
citing
Taranto’s
participation
in
the
January
6
“mob
of
rioters”
while
describing
his
criminal
history.
This
description
has
the
benefit
of
being,
you
know,
entirely
accurate.
It
also
has
the
detriment
of
being
entirely
not
how
Donald
Trump
likes
to
hear
his
beloved
thugs
described.
Savvy
readers
may
be
wondering
if,
given
that
this
is
a
D.C.
prosecution,
the
memo
earned
a
sign
off
from
boss
Jeanine
Pirro.
As
it
happens,
Pirro
did
approve
the
memo
meaning
she
either
saw
nothing
wrong
with
it
or
found
herself
too
distracted
by
the
bottled
water
situation
in
the
office
to
read
it.
Which
explains
the
NBC
report
that
the
decision
to
derail
the
careers
of
a
couple
rank-and-file
prosecutors
came
directly
from
the
White
House.
I
wonder
why
the
White
House
is
so
sensitive
about
describing
January
6
as
a
riot.
I
thought
it
was
all
an
Antifa
hoax
run
by
the
deep
state
FBI?
It’s
just
so
hard
to
keep
up.
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