Two federal prosecutors were put on leave, and the Department of Justice quickly scrubbed all mention of January 6 and Donald Trump sharing Barack Obama’s address from a key sentencing memo, all in an apparent effort to protect a convicted, gun-toting ‘patriot’ from a 27-month sentence. This feels like they’re tampering with information to influence a court.
The man at the center of this fiasco is Taylor Taranto. He’s a pardoned January 6 rioter who was later found guilty of possessing illegal guns, a machete, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition near former President Barack Obama’s Washington, D.C., house in June 2023. On the other hand, he was also convicted of false information and hoax charges for a video where he claimed he was on a “one-way mission” to blow up a facility in Maryland, per MSNBC.
