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Abramson details what federal prosecutors Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White had filed in that case:
They made reference to Taranto’s January 6 case, which was essential to explain his motive... and to establishing the unique sort of danger he posed... and they referenced that Taranto’s June 2023 crime was committed in response to a Trump tweet, which was essential to explain that Taranto was the sort of man who... was willing to commit violent, politically committed crimes inspired by the violent and suggestively vile rhetoric of Donald Trump...
These honest documents created a formal “public record.” They were a paper trail that, according to Abramson, officially linked Trump’s incitement to Taranto’s act of attempted political violence.
‘Consciousness of Guilt’
Trump and Bondi’s response to this public record was immediate and, according to the report, illegal.
Abramson alleges they acted with a clear “consciousness of guilt:”
[They] suspended Valdivia and White from their jobs, doctored the federal record in Taranto’s case by ripping up the prior filings that mentioned January 6... as well as Trump’s June 2023 tweet inciting an Attempted Assassination of Obama, and did not maintain the ardent push for a 27-month federal prison sentence for Taranto, which resulted in him being immediately released from custody....
This act was not a simple “political comms decision,” Abramson writes. The report frames it as a premeditated criminal cover-up, designed to destroy federal evidence and obscure the president’s role in the plot.
Abramson concludes this is Trump’s “near-daily scheme.” He pardons a criminal for one crime (Jan 6) and then covers up his own involvement in soliciting the next crime (the Obama plot).
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