After Mr. Taranto was arrested in 2023, prosecutors said he had driven through Washington and the surrounding area in his van over the course of two days, livestreaming much of his wanderings and at one point suggesting that he had “outfitted his vehicle with a detonator.”

In the original sentencing papers, Mr. Valdivia and Mr. White had said that Mr. Taranto had apparently discovered Mr. Obama’s address in a social media message posted by Mr. Trump. Mr. Taranto reposted the address, the prosecutors said, and then broadcast footage of himself driving through Mr. Obama’s neighborhood, Kalorama in Northwest Washington, claiming he was searching for “tunnels.”

But the new court papers made no mention of Mr. Trump’s post.

The new memo still noted that when the authorities discovered Mr. Taranto near the house, they found a pistol and a semiautomatic rifle in his van, along with hundreds of rounds of ammunition. But it excised a previous reference that the discovery of the weapons and ammunition should be “viewed with the backdrop of political violence in mind.”

Prosecutors who have worked on Jan. 6-related cases have been targeted for months as part of Mr. Trump’s broader effort to root out people in the Justice Department he believes to be disloyal.

The firings and demotions began in late January, just after Mr. Trump returned to office, when more than a dozen young prosecutors who worked on riot cases were dismissed from the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington.

The next month, several senior prosecutors who had worked on Jan. 6 cases involving far-right groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were demoted from supervisory positions to low-level jobs handling misdemeanors.

And in July, three more career prosecutors who handled the cases were also dismissed.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/politics/justice-edited-court-documents-trump-january-6

On Wednesday, the moves made by the Justice Department had employees reeling within the US Attorney’s Office in DC and the FBI, which had investigated and caught Taranto, believing he was a danger to the public in 2023, people familiar with the office told CNN on Thursday.

One source called the sentencing memo change “Orwellian.”

Valdivia had no indication he may have employment issues — especially given that on Tuesday, the day before his suspension, he helped to secure a guilty verdict from a jury in a fraud case where he was on the trial team, according to two people familiar with the US Attorney’s Office.

Separately, White is a supervisor on Superior Court cases and was a US Marine.

A Justice Department spokesperson told CNN on Wednesday following the suspensions: “While we don’t comment on personnel decisions, we want to make very clear that we take violence and threats of violence against law enforcement, current or former government officials extremely seriously. We have and will continue to vigorously pursue justice against those who commit or threaten violence without regard to the political party of the offender or the target.”

The spokesperson declined to clarify if the comments were about Taranto’s 2023 actions toward Obama, or his participation in the Capitol riot in 2021, in which a mob of Trump supporters injured multiple people, including many police protecting the federal building.

The move by Justice Department officials to place the two attorneys on leave and erase all mention of Trump posting Obama’s address or Taranto’s participation in the events of January 6 comes at a time when administration officials have already worked to fire scores of federal prosecutors and officers they see as potential roadblocks in their efforts to use the DOJ against political opponents.

For someone who had absolutely nothing to do with the completely peaceful protest that was also a violent Antifia false riot on January 6th, Trump sure does have his people spending a lot of time rehashing it.

>>1453734
Wait until you see what he's going to do to Jack Smith.

Too bad he didn't use the term traitors... it would imply that the insurrectionists deserve the death penalty.

Good. Time for those fucking traitors to get a taste of their own medicine. The shitheads who wrongfully imprisoned thousands and trampled their rights deserve to be tried, convicted, and executed but ending their careers is a decent first step.

>>1453877
You saying MAGAts didn't break into the capitol and beat the shit out of police?

>>1453884
No. Don't know why you're still clinging to this debunked bullcrap.

>>1453888
you do know real americans value video footage over the delusions of some shill faggot, right

>>1453889
Yes they do. Like the footage of them being waved in by security for a start. What's next, you gonna claim you saw a video of Brian Sicknik getting beat to death with a fire extinguisher? Or are you going to come up with some other bald faced lie?

>>1453895
instead of engaging in your ancient talking points, i'd rather just make fun of you for having this job more. you're a faggot, shill, and nobody will ever take you seriously unless you go back to facebook

>>1453895
>it was real in my mind

>>1453895
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXnHIJkZZAs
>Pictured: "We're totally not hitting them at all and forcing our way through a police blockade"

>>1453896
>>1453897
>>1453898
Thank you all for admitting your debunked lies are meaningless.

>>1453900
see>>1453889

>>1453900
Oh, you're one of those "straight up deny reality" type of shills

>>1453903
Someone fix this bot, it's stuck in a loop.

>>1453908
you have a job to do shill, i don't think you get paid to call people who prove you wrong bots, do you

>>1453731
Rioters or not Trump still should go to prison for inciting them.

>>1453907
I do not deny that out of the THOUSANDS of innocent people locked up for years, denied their rights, and terrorized into making false confessions only fourteen(14) were found to have actually done something wrong that day. But since their rights were ground to dust under the boot of Biden's DOJ along with the rest their sentences were commuted instead of getting the full pardons the thousands of victims received.

>>1453910
lol. It still thinks make your voices peacefully heard is inciting something. Your Autism is showing.

>>1453914
don't shit on the floor ok esl shill

>>1453916
Yawn.

>>1453917
i know your depravity is commonplace in your eyes but regular people still think you're a savage animal for shitting on government property

>>1453914
>terrorized into making false confessions
So they were lying when they said they were present and part of the crowd?

>>1453921
Neither of those things is a crime. You would think an American would know that.

>>1453923
Actually yes when they involve breaking and entering and assault charges by a crowd. You don't get a bystander excuse when the whole crowd breaks in and assaults cops.

Insurrectionists are traitors, it doesn't matter if they were duped by Herr Fuhrer or not, knowingly ransacked the Capital Building.

>>1453895
>Like the footage of them being waved in by security for a start
I'll give the right this
How they've managed to take treasonous cops working with insurrectionists to try to overthrow an election, couple that with actors working for the Trump DOJ to whip up the crowd to storm the Capitol, and spin all of that into a narrative about a Democrat trap, even though Democrats gained nothing from the Capitol being stormed and weren't even in power at the time, is one of the top three most successful propaganda campaigns I have ever witnessed.

>>1453928
It also requires you to ignore them beating the shit out of other cops when they didn't wave the insurrections through
But MAGA retards still like to pretend that the officer they beat into unconsciousness would have died the next day even if they weren't attacked

>>1453930
They won't even acknowledge they were using weapons.

>>1453821
And they do. It was a terrorist attack plotted by an angry baby who lost an election. This is the most childlike and worthless administration in American history.

Trump is trying to have 500 ready to take over troops in every state now too. I don't know instead of being a tiny handed dictator and sieging a nation to get your friends rich try being a leader?

>>1453895
Hey bro, you need to admit guilt in order to be eligible for a pardon.

>>1453960
Thats not true at all. You dont even need to be convicted to receive a pardon.

>>1453731
To MAGA, right-wingers storming the capital are peaceful protestors, while leftists peacefully protesting are antifa terrorists that hate America.
This is the end stage of post-modern politics. MAGA has fashioned an entire alternate reality where the truth is whatever they say it is. Reality always wins in the end, but holy fuck is there going to be a lot of misery beforehand.

>>1453968
How do you pardon someone that's innocent anon? Tell me.

>>1453971
>right-wingers storming the capital are peaceful protestors, while leftists peacefully protesting are antifa terrorists that hate America
The exact same retardation you are pointing out is true when the shoe is on the other foot though.
In reality the right had one large riot in one spot, and the left had dozens of smaller ones all over the country

But you are probably paid not to admit this or be a reasonable person whatsoever

>>1453974
>the left had dozens of smaller ones all over the country
You mean the Boogaloo Riots? They were hardly 'left wing'.

>>1453974
nice projection there esl shill. have a penny

>>1453976
>>1453975
You radicals like you can never just act like normal, reasonable people, can you?

>>1453974
You fags always try this false equivalence. There’s nothing there.
Yeah, there was some rioting after Floyd. The protesting was mostly peaceful, but “most” doesn’t mean “all,” and the violence that did happen was bad. The problem is that MAGA then takes those relatively few riots and equates them to ALL left-wing protests everywhere. Not even just during the Floyd protests, everywhere, all the time. And thus you have your alternate reality.
And you can’t fucking compare a mob looting a Target with a mob breaking into the capital of the United States to try and overthrow our democracy. That’s absurd.

>But you are probably paid not to admit this or be a reasonable person whatsoever
And there’s your alternate reality at play again. Someone says something that goes against your version of events? They MUST be a paid shill, there’s no other explanation.

>>1453977
>you radicals like you
you'll never beat those esl charges, will you

>>1453977
Normal reasonable sane people don't behave the way you do on 4chan, shill
Hypocrisy as well as projection

>>1453981
>>1453980
When were you first radicalized online?

>>1453898
You give credits to your opponent. You give Trump all rights to use army against your own protests. Both sides are so gullible.

>>1453982
when will you stop spamming and learn english

>>1453979
>The problem is that MAGA then takes those relatively few riots and equates them to ALL left-wing protests everywhere.
That's not why they were bad anon.
They 1) had institutional support, 2) were the worst race riots in US history, 3) were covered up by the media and professional dogwalkers, 4) killed more people than all of the police shootings in the previous year. Lefty AG's turn prison into a revolving door. Citizens who defended themselves were crucified.
No serious person believes that J6 was worse than FedEx employees being dragged out of their cars and beaten to death in the streets of Minneapolis.

>>1453985
Your mom's life must be awful having to live around you

>>1453977
You are so far right you think normal reasonable people can't have brown skin.

>>1453981
>Normal reasonable sane people don't behave the way you do on 4chan, shill
>>1453982
>When were you first radicalized online?
QED

>>1453977
>You radicals like you
>normal sane Americans would say 'Radicals like you' and not use 'you' twice & at the beginning
Still not beating those non-American allegations, shill.

>>1453990
Tell us again how you hate "browns" but ironically think Democrats are the racist party.

>>1453983
>against your own protests
They did this already.

>>1453981
>Normal reasonable sane people don't behave the way you do on 4chan, shill
>>1453996
>Tell us again how you hate "browns" but ironically think Democrats are the racist party
QED
>also reduced to projection
>us
Not only proving to not be normal and sane, but schizophrenic too.

>>1453982
Iryna Zarutska

>>1454001
literally who?

>>1454001
>I was radicalized because one schizo killed one person
But when a schizo shoots up a school and kills a few kids *yawn*.

>>1453996
Democrats are the KKK party.
Prove me wrong. Or shoot me in the neck.

>>1454074
i think you're taking your s&m fantasies a little too far

>>1454058
99% of mass shootings are done by non whites

>>1454077
100% of your posts are laughed at because you're the resident esl shill with no original thoughts

Your truly a fcking idiot for thinking the democrats are racist when trump have the most racist opinion on earth

>>1454058
The funniest part about it is they suddenly care very deeply about Ukrainian whores.

>>1454079
ESL
>>1454078
ESL

>>1454077
Facts

>>1454079
Democrats are the most racist pigs in your lifetime so far and its not even close

Biden stole the election, of course people are going to riot and storm the Capitol. That's what good people are supposed to do. Heck it would have been justified just for forcing people to take the vax. In reality jan 6th was a 100 percent sanctioned event, orchestrated exactly to produce a show trial. Trump is just pulling back the curtains for everyone.

>>1454081
>ESL
Says that which is projecting so hard, the shill has to repeat it when saying it once would be enough
>>1454077
>>1454084
Farts

>>1454085
If that was true you would vote Democrat every single time.

>>1454087
shitty bait

>>1453924
so every rioter in portland right now should get 15 years in prison or the rope?
glad you agree

>>1453927
>>1453971
so everyone in the CHOP movement, antifa and the current chicago protests should be executed according to you huh

>>1453973
a pardon means they're cleared of all charges anon including ones that might be bought up in the future that aren't existing, did you read the wording on hunter's pardon
https://www.justice.gov/d9/2024-12/biden_warrant.pdf

"for those offenses against the united states which he has commited or may have committed or taken part in" you don't need to be guilty to receive a pardon, its not just him biden preemptively pardoned people like doctor fauci from potential political prosecution.

>>1454145
>CHOP movement
lmao ffs it was just a homeless camp

>>1454157
that took over a city where people died. everyone involved should've been executed for treason

>>1454158
no they didn't, they took over 1 city block and the person who died was part of it

>>1454158
>>1454176
Was it even a whole block or just part of a couple streets?

>>1454180
It is so crazy to watch these conservative trolls “it’s fine that we beat cops with trump flags and broke windows with cops riot shields we stole to ransac the capital building and wipe our shit on the walls and destroy democratic offices…. Because I saw a video where they weren’t beating cops with Trump flags in the building… also what about any other time anyone else gathered in a group? I can think of another time someone dies in a group of people. Why wasnt everyone within 10 miles of that crime arrested? They were liberal!”

>>1454180
Six blocks including a police precinct.
The mayor also forbade EMS and police from entering. There was a point where some guy got shot from the constant street fighting and EMS were begging Antifa to bring the guy to them to render aid.
It was only after two black kids got shot that the mayor let them go back into the zone. The optics were too bad to ignore.

>>1454158
Rittenhouse was more based than he could possible imagine.

>>1454213
Who gives a shit? It lasted 2 weeks.

>>1454249
>it's only a little revolution bro

>>1454252
It was a homeless camp.

A Narcissist's Prayer
That didn't happen.
And if it did, it wasn't that bad.>>1454176
And if it was, that's not a big deal.>>1454249
And if it is, that's not my fault.
And if it was, I didn't mean it.
And if I did...
You deserved it.>>1454210

>>1454256
You're trying to make a mountain out of a molehill again.

>>1453731
The least those traitors deserve.

>>1454145
Nope, just the maga patriot order serving emperor Trump