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.”
Terrorists* not just rioters…Terrorists.
For the record:
According to Trump Justice, this is NOT a mob of rioters:
This is:
I feel like a bit got buried by the headline:
The filing also said Taranto drove to Obama’s neighborhood shortly after Mr. Trump posted the former president’s purported address on Truth Social and Taranto shared the post.
Trump posted Obama’s address online and it wasn’t front page news?? Or did I just miss it?
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
^ Ironically, attributed to Orwell, even though he apparently did not write or say this… :)
Always check the veracity of any online quote
- Albert Einstein
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- Michael Scott
Or...
… possibly Antonio Gramsci
Crazy how the president has means to control the DOJ now…
After four years of Biden insisting he had zero control over the DOJ and couldn’t do anything to hold actual traitors accountable.
I’ll never know if he legitimately didn’t understand what powers he held as a president, or if he was just pretending to be that ignorant and incompetent on purpose to avoid the precedent.
Or trump is using the DOJ illegally.
Obviously trump is abusing the DOJ…
But that doesn’t mean Biden refused to exert all pressure he legally could have to prevent this…
He couldn’t directly fire the Special Counsel he appointed, but he could have told the AG to do it due to the delays. Which would have been valid and legal.
If the AG refused, Biden could have replaced the AG and told the new one the same thing.
Even if Biden kept appointing people who didn’t do what he publicly said he wanted, he could keep replacing them
But Occam’s Razor says Biden and his admin were aware he could do that. And chose not to
And if that was happening, I doubt what he was telling the AG and Special Counsel in private matched what he told us in public.
Like, this is the smallest molehill imaginable, and everyone wants to pretend it was an unsurmountable obstacle.
Is this new information to you?
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If you’re looking for someone to defend Biden, it ain’t me. I’m a pro union civilian and he was very anti union. He was just good at making it look like he was pro…. For that reason, I am not a fan of Biden. Do we really know what the true power of a president has?.. I used to think so, but after trump, I’m not so sure. Unless we are planning on climbing the ladder, this argument seems like a moot point.
Quote where anyone asked you to defend biden.
I wasn’t looking for anyone to defend him…
But making an unsolicited reply defending him, then immediately claiming you’re not defending him and don’t want to discuss…
I gotta say man, I don’t understand why you made either comment.
Biden wanted to make it look like it wasn’t political so he assigned a special counsel that he didn’t control to do those things. Trump doesn’t care about it looking political.
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Agitprop?
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:
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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.
Huh?
Why do you think a president doesn’t control a special counsel?
The regulations restrict the power to fire the special counsel into the hands of the attorney general alone, and they forbid the firing of the special counsel without good cause.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_counsel
Biden could have told Garland that it was taking too long and they need results
Garland could have replaced the Special counsel that was slow walking it.
If Garland refused, Biden could have replaced him. And told the new AG to do it.
The only reason Biden “couldn’t do anything” was he appointed someone that would tell Biden he “couldn’t do anything” and Biden accepted that. Because that’s what he wanted, or he was too ignorant of how the government works to know this was an option…
You’re ignoring not wanting it to look political. He wouldn’t do any of that because of that reason.
You’re ignoring that he got elected on the promise of holding Trump and others accountable…
If he didn’t want it to appear political, why did he make it the central part of his primary and general campaign?
Why did he only suddenly not want it to appear political after getting elected to do it?
Like. You keep saying stuff to defend him, but logically this is starting to feel like talking to a trumpet.
The only consistency in your comments is “Biden did nothing wrong” and I’m struggling to see why you keep trying to change everything but that result
I didn’t say any of those things.
You’re ignoring not wanting it to look political
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.
“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
I didn’t care for 1984 when I read it. I felt it was too over the top and unbelievable. Turns out it was written by a time traveler.
It was written in a time when that exact sort of thing had just happened recently. And here we are again going through the same shit beacuse history rhymes.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
Those who remember history are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it.
They aren’t forgetting they are using it as a play book.
I’m talking about the people who are going to have their faces eaten.
Yeah those are the same people.
The filing — which asked a judge to sentence Taranto to 27 monThat 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.”
We literally watched a farking riot happen. Live. On TV. This is how stupid Trump and the GOP think you are. “You gonna trust US or your lying eyes?”
You need to start looking for sources other than CBS News. It’s being run by someone who should be working for Fox.
Oh? What collective noun would they have preferred? A murder?
Don’t disparage crows.
You’re right. Unlike the Jan. 6’ers, they’re highly intelligent, and I apologize.
CBS is a poor quality source FYI
