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The Lead with Jake Tapper

DOJ Scrubs Mention Of Trump & January 6 From Sentencing Memo

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Two assistant United States attorneys are suspended after mentioning facts about President Trump and the January 6th attack in court documents. A federal judge just weighed in. Plus, Britain’s King Charles strips his brother Andrew of his title.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What Trump's Justice Department removed from a court filing has the legal world alarmed.

0:08.0

The lead starts right now.

0:10.0

Two assistant U.S. attorney suspended after mentioning facts about President Trump and the January 6th attack in court documents.

0:20.0

Those key lines now gone. The federal

0:24.3

judge just weighed in on this rather Orwellian move. And breaking news, Britain's Prince Andrew

0:30.0

stripped of his Prince title. I guess we just call him Andrew now. He's also going to move out of the

0:35.7

Royal Lodge. He's the biggest name to fall so far because of the most recent iteration of the Jeffrey Epstein

0:42.3

scandal.

0:43.3

Will he ever face actual justice, though?

0:45.3

And we're just five days out from Election Day, the closing messages before the final votes

0:50.3

and the big key races.

0:59.3

Welcome to the lead. I'm Jake Tapp and we start with our law and justice lead.

1:01.4

The Trump Justice Department just suspended two prosecutors after they described the January

1:06.7

6th insurrection as a, quote, mob of rioters in a sentencing memo, which is, of course, accurate.

1:14.8

The Department of Justice took the memo down and published a new one, whitewashing, key language.

1:22.9

One Justice Department source describes the move as, quote, Orwellian.

1:26.5

Today, pardoned rioter Taylor

1:28.5

Torrento was sentenced in a D.C. federal court for 21 months on gun charges in a separate

1:36.3

case. But first, let's bring you a little refresher of Torento's visit to the Capitol in January

1:41.5

2021 in his own words. Here he is. So we're in the Capitol in January 2021, in his own words. Here he is.

1:45.0

So we're in the Capitol building,

1:49.0

legislative building, and we just stormed it.

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