Continuing to moonlight as a witness protection program for violent insurrectionists, Pam Bondi\u2019s DOJ came down on Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White of the D.C. U.S. Attorney\u2019s 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 \u201ctwo guns, a machete and hundreds of rounds of ammunition<\/a>\u201d to Barack Obama\u2019s house \u2014 after Donald Trump posted the former president\u2019s address \u2014 and posting a picture of himself with the caption \u201cWe got these losers surrounded!\u201d<\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n But then Valdivia and White prepared a sentencing memo seeking 27 years and citing Taranto\u2019s participation in the January 6 \u201cmob of rioters\u201d 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<\/em> how Donald Trump likes to hear his beloved thugs described.<\/p>\n 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<\/em> approve the memo meaning she either saw nothing wrong with it or found herself too distracted by the bottled water situation in the office<\/a> to read it.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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\u2019s just so hard to keep up.<\/p>\n The post Trump DOJ Has HAD It With Prosecutors Who Think Showing Up At Barack Obama\u2019s House With Guns And A Machete Is Some Kind Of \u2018Crime\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears<\/em>. It was their final, most essential command<\/em>.<\/p>\n Continuing to moonlight as a witness protection program for violent insurrectionists, Pam Bondi\u2019s DOJ came down on Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White of the D.C. U.S. Attorney\u2019s 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 \u201ctwo guns, a machete and hundreds of rounds of ammunition<\/a>\u201d to Barack Obama\u2019s house \u2014 after Donald Trump posted the former president\u2019s address \u2014 and posting a picture of himself with the caption \u201cWe got these losers surrounded!\u201d<\/p>\n 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. <\/p>\n But then Valdivia and White prepared a sentencing memo seeking 27 years and citing Taranto\u2019s participation in the January 6 \u201cmob of rioters\u201d 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<\/em> how Donald Trump likes to hear his beloved thugs described.<\/p>\n 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<\/em> approve the memo meaning she either saw nothing wrong with it or found herself too distracted by the bottled water situation in the office<\/a> to read it.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n
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