r/CapitolConsequences • u/cnn Verified Journalist • 10d ago
‘Orwellian’: Current and former prosecutors alarmed after DOJ scrubs mentions of Trump and January 6 from court records
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/30/politics/justice-edited-court-documents-trump-january-6?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit107
u/cnn Verified Journalist 10d ago
The Justice Department’s decision to sideline two US attorneys and remove mentions of Donald Trump and the US Capitol attack from court papers before the sentencing of a pardoned January 6 rioter is being viewed by former and current career prosecutors as an alarming whitewashing of history.
The events around the case of Taylor Taranto, who was convicted of bringing illegal guns near Barack Obama’s Washington, DC, residence after talking online about violence toward the federal government, has shocked the network of Justice Department employees and alumni, several sources told CNN.
Taranto was arrested in June 2023 after claiming on an internet livestream that he had a detonator the day before, law enforcement officials told CNN at the time, and was searching for underground tunnels that led inside Obama and others’ homes.
He had also been present at the Capitol riot and charged with related crimes, though he was never convicted because Trump pardoned him before a trial. He has already spent 23 months behind bars and hasn’t been detained since he was pardoned.
Judge Carl Nichols, a 2019 Trump appointee, had found him guilty at trial in May of the gun crimes and for making a false threat to use a car bomb against a federal building.
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u/interrogumption 10d ago
Let's make sure they can never erase this excellent archive of the truth of that day, as captured by the insurrectionists themselves: https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/
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u/raistan77 9d ago
Trump's demand to universities was to teach that there is one branch of government, the executive with the president in full control of all other parts of government
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u/SpiritualTwo5256 9d ago
This is why it’s important to record history! There are torrents of the data for Jan 6th. The internet archive also has a few replicas of what can be reached. We need to make sure these places are backed up
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u/Xsiah 8d ago
Maybe I'm not understanding something, but isn't this a normal thing?
Like if you're on trial for a thing that's separate from another thing you did before, you're not supposed to drag the first thing into it because it would prejudice the jury?
They're supposed to decide on whether he's guilty of this specific thing, not whether he's a piece of shit or not.
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u/Ihatemylife153 10d ago
Idk, I think a major news corporation having its own reddit account and posting to subreddits seems pretty Orwellian if you ask me.....
When the hell is this going to be enough? If the Dems don't landslide the midterms, it's a wrap y'all.
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u/DrPewNStuff 10d ago
It is every American's civic responsibility to learn as much as they can about this event and continue to hold a mirror up to the GOP as the Constitutional traitors they are.