The Justice Department placed two D.C.-based federal prosecutors on leave after they filed court papers calling the Jan. 6 Capitol siege a “riot” perpetrated by a “mob,” three sources familiar with the matter told CBS News on Wednesday.
The papers were submitted Tuesday in the case of Taylor Taranto, who was pardoned by Trump on Capitol riot charges earlier this year but was later convicted of livestreaming a bomb threat. He was arrested in 2023 while livestreaming himself driving around former President Barack Obama’s D.C. neighborhood while armed, according to prosecutors.
The filing — which asked a judge to sentence Taranto to 27 months in prison at a hearing Thursday — mentioned Taranto’s Jan. 6 charges and briefly described the events of that day, writing that “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol.”
That unsparing description of the Capitol riot was notable, as Mr. Trump has called Jan. 6 a “day of love” and referred to the rioters as “hostages.”
He ran his entire primary and general campaign on how he was going to hold trump accountable…
He made it a political issue, the main reason people held their noses and voted for him, then as soon as he was elected he said he couldn’t do what he promised he do because that would be political.
I don’t know how much simpler to make it.
If you’re saying it’s ok he didn’t push to hold trump accountable, why are you ok with him campaigning almost exclusively on doing that?
How do you reconcile these contradictory points in your head?
I’m genuinely trying to understand your line of thinking.
You can keep repeating this message. But you’re replying to things I never said.
https://lemmy.world/comment/20224685
That’s not you?
That doesn’t say what you seem to think it does. You’ve added a whole lot of extra context that just does not exist in what I said. You’re really trying to have an argument with some fictitious version of me.