The prosecutors reportedly called the Trump supporters who participated in the January 6 attack a ‘mob of rioters’.
The United States Department of Justice has reportedly placed two federal prosecutors, Samuel White and Carlos Valdivia, on administrative leave after they referred to the participants in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, as “a mob of rioters”.
Documents the two prosecutors had filed in advance of a Thursday sentencing hearing were also amended to remove references to the January 6 attack.
The new filings were made on Wednesday, the same day that the prosecutors received their notices and were locked out of their government devices.
Both were members of the US Attorney’s
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