This is just an essential element of authoritarianism, where you just create a fantasy world that your believers cultishly follow, and you enforce those beliefs by punishing those who contradict the party line.

I mean, you know, it's Orwellian. It's Orwell.

Hello, everyone, and welcome to George Conway explains it all. To Sarah, I'm Sarah Longwell,

publisher of the bulwark. And because I am very much not a lawyer, I've asked my good friend George Conway from the Society for the rule of law to explain all the illegal news to me and to you.

George, how you doing, buddy?

Good, I'm good. How are you doing?

Good. Although I've got a couple topics here that are a little wonky for me, so I'm excited

to have you explain them. I'm nervous about it, though. But let's start with one that I do understand

pretty clearly. January 6th, January 6th, the day that lives in infamy when I say it now, you know

that I don't mean the future January or just the most recent January.

But here's what happened.

Two D.C. federal prosecutors will put on administrative leave hours after filing a sentencing memo against a January 6th defendant.

Tyler Taranto.

Taranto was among the January 6 defendants pardoned by Trump, but he also faced separate charges from an arrest

near President Obama's house in 2023. In the sentencing memo, Taranto was said to have

participated in the riot at the Capitol. The memo also said that after the riot, Taranto

returned to his home in Washington, where he promoted conspiracy theories about the events of January 6th,

2021. So those are pretty clear-cut factual statements. But a few hours after the prosecutors filed

that sentencing memorandum, they were put on leave. And it's been reported that the move was

initiated by the White House.

So as a reminder to folks earlier this year, dozens of prosecutors were fired for participating

not in January 6th, but in the January 6th prosecutions. So if you were there at the DOJ,

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