The Justice Department on Wednesday placed two prosecutors on leave after they filed a legal brief describing the people on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021, as “a mob of rioters,” and connecting President Donald Trump to the 2023 doxxing of former President Barack Obama ‘s house.

Assistant U.S. attorneys Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White were informed they would be placed on leave after writing a memo about sentencing in Taylor Taranto’s case related to his visiting Obama’s house with firearms and ammunition, according to ABC News and other outlets. Taranto was a Jan. 6 rioter who was pardoned.

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