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.”
Apparently calling out the user spouting Russian both sides propaganda as an agitprop bot isn’t civil and my comment was removed. It’s a specific type of propaganda using rage bait to frame discussion. All their talking points boil down to the Democratics are actually worse than the literal nazi republican administration because they followed the rules and procedures and traditions and laws.
Rule 3:
“Be civil, No violations of TOS. It’s OK to say the subject of an article is behaving like a (pejorative, pejorative). It’s NOT OK to say another USER is (pejorative). Strong language is fine, just not directed at other members. Engage in good-faith and with respect! This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban.”
I’ll have to look that up. I’ve never heard that phrase before. Pretty wild that your comment got taken down. The person is clearly just trying to get into arguments with people.
Eh I’m kind of an aggressive asshole so I’m not surprised when I get removed, but lemmy in general has a lot of anti Democratic propaganda, mostly a Russian psy-op.