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Two federal prosecutors in Washington, DC, were placed on leave after describing the January 6, 2021 attack at the US Capitol as stemming from a “mob of rioters” in a sentencing memo Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The two prosecutors, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, were notified of their suspension hours after they submitted a sentencing request for Taylor Taranto, the person said.

Trump pardoned Taranto for charges related to his participation in January 6, but the Washington man still faces gun charges stemming from his arrest in the summer of 2023, when he was detained nearby President Barack Obama’s Washington, DC, home.

When describing Taranto’s history, prosecutors wrote that, “On January 6, 2021, thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters attacked the U.S. Capitol while a joint session of Congress met to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.”

The original sentencing memo, dated Tuesday, was removed from the court docket Wednesday afternoon.

A new sentencing memo was posted by different prosecutors late Wednesday that removed all references to January 6 or the Trump social media post that Taranto reposted, which included an alleged address for President Barack Obama, where Taranto was arrested the next day.

In the original memo, Valdivia and White wrote that “Taranto was accused of participating in the riot in Washington, D.C., by entering the U.S. Capitol Building” and “after the riot, Taranto returned to his home in the State of Washington, where he promoted conspiracy theories about the events of January 6, 2021.”

They asked the judge to sentence him to 27 months behind bars. That same punishment is still being requested by prosecutors in the new memo.

Taranto was arrested in June, 2023 in Obama’s Washington, DC, neighborhood after claiming on an internet livestream that he had a detonator, law enforcement officials told CNN at the time, and was searching for underground tunnels that led inside Obama and other’s homes.

Valdivia and White wrote in Tuesday’s memo that after “then-former President Donald Trump published on a social media platform the purported address of former President Barack Obama,” Taranto had re-posted Trump “and thereafter started livestreaming from his van” as he drove through Obama’s neighborhood.

Taranto was arrested that day and law enforcement officials found guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his van. He was later found guilty by a federal judge of several gun related charges and making false threats that he would drive a car bomb into a federal building.

Prosecutors have said in court documents that Taranto has also made threats against former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin.

The move to place federal prosecutors on leave follows a list of other firings in US Attorney’s offices.

The Trump administration fired the top national security prosecutor in the nearby US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, Michael Ben’Ary, earlier this month after a social media post by a right-wing activist and writer falsely tied him to the case of FBI Director James Comey.

The former US Attorney of the same Eastern District, Erik Siebert, resigned in September after mounting pressure to bring charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James, and was replaced by a White House advisor who lacked prosecutorial experience.

Another prosecutor in the Alexandria, Beth Yusi, was dismissed earlier this month after drafting a memo outlining why prosecutors believed there was not enough evidence to bring charges against James. People familiar with her termination told CNN she was fired after mishandling FBI documents containing James’s personal information.

The Justice Department didn’t immediately respond to a message seeking comment for this story.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/politics/federal-prosecutors-january-6-mob-of-rioters-taranto

Wiping out court records, punishing prosecutors who refuse to do his bidding and punishing his opposition. "But Biden!"



FREE THE HOSTAGES!

Pardoned Capitol rioter arrested for allegedly threatening to kill top Democrat

A man pardoned by US President Donald Trump for his role in the 2021 Capitol riot has been charged with threatening to kill the top Democrat in the House of Representatives.

Christopher Moynihan, 34, was arrested in the town of Clinton, New York, for making a terroristic threat to kill a member of Congress, New York State Police said. He has pleaded not guilty.

Moynihan allegedly planned to target House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries during a speech to the Economic Club of New York scheduled for this week, according to court filings obtained by the BBC's US partner CBS News.

"I cannot allow this terrorist to live," Moynihan allegedly wrote in text messages.

According to court filings, Moynihan also wrote: "Even if I am hated, [Jeffries] must be eliminated, I will kill him for the future."

Jeffries, a lead contender to become Speaker should Democrats take control of the House, said he was grateful to police and federal agents for apprehending "a dangerous individual who made a credible death threat against me with every intention to carry it out".

"Unfortunately, our brave men and women in law enforcement are being forced to spend their time keeping our communities safe from these violent individuals who should never have been pardoned," he added.

Moynihan was sentenced to 21 months in prison in 2023 for breaching the Capitol on 6 January 2021 as part of the mob seeking to stop Congress from certifying that Joe Biden had won the 2020 election and to keep Trump in power.

Prosecutors said he was one of the first rioters to break through police barricades.

After he entered the Senate chamber, they said, he flipped through a notebook on a desk and took pictures with his phone, saying there had to be information in them they could "use against" lawmakers.

On Trump's first day back in office, he pardoned Moynihan and more than 1,000 other riot defendants, calling them "hostages" whose lives had been "detroyed". Several other pardoned rioters have also since been arrested for a variety of charges.

Last month, he posted a doctored video of Jeffries wearing a sombrero when talks on avoiding a government shutdown failed and accused him of favoring people in the country illegally over US citizens.

Political violence has turned deadly in the US this year. A man in June allegedly targeted Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, killing one and her husband and wounding another. Then, in September, a Utah man allegedly shot and killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Moynihan is being held in a facility in Poughkeepsie and is next scheduled to appear in court on Thursday. He has been read his charges and pleaded not guilty, according to the local prosecutor.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2ej7ly369o

Rumor has it that there is now an offshoot organization that was started by The Young Republicans that any trump supporter is welcome to join.

CFT Criminals For Trump. While the membership cost is high at 10k dollars it includes a minimum of one guaranteed pardon as long as the crime you commit is in support of trump.

The Cleaning up of any history that MAGA deems offensive.

They clearly want to rewrite history..