Legal expert and MSNBC contributor Joyce Vance penned a searing essay on Thursday, accusing the Department of Justice of becoming completely corrupted by President Donald Trump's attempts to rewrite history.
On Wednesday, the Department of Justice fired two prosecutors who described January 6 as a "riot" in a sentencing memo that also mentioned Trump's name, according to reports. The sentencing memo was filed in a case against Taylor Taranto, a MAGA fan who was arrested outside of President Barack Obama's residence in Washington, D.C., after saying, "I gotta get the shot," reports indicate.
Vance argued in a new essay on her Substack, "Civil Discourse," that firing the prosecutors over their descriptions of January 6 is "utterly appalling."
"It completes the corruption of the Justice Department," she wrote.
"It’s hard to overstate how serious this is," Vance continued. "We’ve now seen revenge prosecutions, like those against former FBI Director Jim Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James...and now we are seeing prosecutors being disciplined for telling the courts the truth—in an era where this administration has increasingly withheld it from the courts."
"Donald Trump is intent on whitewashing history to improve his own position in it," Vance added. "Trump has rebranded January 6 criminals as patriots and attempted to restore them to the American mainstream. It’s a story about a new “lost cause,” transforming disloyal criminals into an idealized version of the story. Trump’s Justice Department is aiding and abetting in that Orwellian task."