interrupting democracy and trying to hang the vice president with the riots and protest and unrest in portland, oregon, in the summer of 2020. so now these two trump appointed judges as i understand it, are rejecting that comparison. that s right. so there is, there were two rioters that went to court. they re accused of crimes related to january 6th. one is accused of throwing a lit fire cracker into a line of cop tall police officers during this brutal riot when trump supporters were trying to overtake the capitol. this rioter went to court and tried to make the argument that he was being persecuted politically because the portland rioters were charged with a crime similar to his then they were dropped by the justice department. so he and another rioter went to two different judges. both trump appointees. they were trying to get more information about the justice