Shortly after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, the political right spent a lot of time parsing whether the word “insurrection” was an apt description of the day’s events.
Today, President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is apparently sanctioning its own prosecutors for calling January 6 a mere “mob of rioters.”
It’s difficult to fully convey just how brazen Trump’s efforts to rewrite the history of the day have become. He’s spent years trying to turn people who launched the worst attack on the US Capitol in two centuries into sympathetic figures. He even pardoned a bunch of people who assaulted police that day, despite more than 8 in 10 Americans opposing that.
But sometimes something comes along that completely drives the whole thing home.
That’s what happened this week, in the case of Taylor Taranto.
To recap: Taranto was among those pardoned by Trump for his actions on January 6. But before that pardon, he committed an unrelated crime.
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