President Donald Trump’s project of rewriting the history of his Jan. 6 insurrection continues to chug along nicely. There were the mass pardons of the rioters and then the mass purges of prosecutors who worked on those cases.

Now, it appears it isn’t even permissible to mention a criminal defendant’s past participation on Jan. 6. So, two federal prosecutors in the District of Columbia, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, are on leave for having referenced Taylor Taranto’s violent participation in Jan. 6 in a sentencing memo for an entirely different case.

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The prosecutors were recommending Taranto serve 27 months for a June 2023 incident where he was arrested near former President Barack Obama’s house with two

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