I was a prosecutor on January 6. The truth cannot be erased.

After the resignation from the Ministry of Justice earlier this month, I plan to return to Massachusetts, where I was born and raised, to the next stage of my career. I write this account in my personal quality.

In the investigation, I watched hundreds of hours of video footage, interviewed the victims of the officer, and passed the evidence of the mountains that testify to the violent intentions of the riots. And I stood in court to hear how many riots they admit their guilt or were found guilty.

But on January 20, President Trump issued Sweeping the blanket forgiveness and switching a sentence of all Almost 1600 people is charged in connection with the rebellion. He ordered the US Prosecutor General to reject all the cases of riots. Then political appointed Presidents released some career prosecutors who worked to achieve justice in these cases, demand several prosecutors and demanded List of FBI agents who participated in the investigation.

This is all part of the agreed effort to promote the false story that on January 6, the rebels were, as Trump claimed when he issued a pardon, “serious national injustice.” But anyone who watched the video from the rebellion knows that serious national injustice was caused by bunters who did not want to accept the results of the democratic elections.

After forgiveness, many have fairly focused on the brutal attacks and victims of officers. More than 140 officers On this day, they attacked a variety of weapons, in the scenes that showed the true barbarism of some riots. These officers sacrifices were represented by the best of the United States when they heroically defended the Capitol. Their heroism lasted when in the following years they regularly responded to the call to testify in an open court against their attackers.

But violence was not spontaneous. The political violence that arises in this country cannot be forgotten that many riots expected, planned and welcomed violence on January 6.

One riot He spent weeks, organizing and calling for political violence, telling others that their plan was to “stifle this city, fill it with patriots”, and send members of Congress that they either return the election results or “these five million people outside the walls. What a bunter brought a hat on the Capitol and transported hats, stunning loaves and other weapons for the employee. On January 6, two men helped to go past the police line and proclaim the day “1776”.

Another riot He said to his group their plan It was “brutally removed the traitors, and if they are in key positions, they quickly replace them with patriots capable.” One of his partnersnight before the attack, proclaimed“There will be blood. Welcome to the revolution. ” The next day he knocked the officer several times. That night he is gloomy that he “nominated (explicit) from blue.”

Another riotAlready a criminal with a long criminal history, promised to show his followers “Symphony of Destruction”. He asked: “If we go to the Civil War, we try to take Washington first if we try to take the capital of the state first.” When he searched the house of this unrest, the FBI found illegal firearms with destroyed serial numbers and thousands of ammunition rounds. In the change of the previous positionRecently, the government has taken this position that, since these crimes were found during a search of January 6, that the Rinter also pardook this criminal behavior.

I finished my appointment to the prosecution group, applying for rejection to the case and sending of the FBI agents to return the seized property – including weapons, hats and a bear spray – arbors that have already been convicted. As a prosecutor who spent years on justice in these cases, I found an order to release the accusation.

But the truth on January 6 cannot be erased. It is available in Exhibits, testimonyAnd reception across Hundreds cases.

There were many patriots on January 6. But they were not bunters who waved Gadsden’s flags and chanted “1776.” The real patriots were officers who valiantly defended our democracy. Although the current administration can try to wash away the reality of this day by giving pardon and rejecting cases and prosecutors, this is true. And the truth cannot be released.