Trump’s justice department scrubs its website of news releases about January 6 defendants
Department of Justice acknowledges the removal of news releases about criminal cases related to 2021 Capitol attack
The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the 6 January 2021 Capitol attack, calling the information about the prosecutions “partisan propaganda”.
The purge of news releases documenting criminal charges, convictions and sentencings is the latest step by the Trump administration to dramatically rewrite the history of the assault on the US Capitol, when hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump stormed the building in an effort to halt the congressional certification of his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump, on his first day back in office in January 2025 , pardoned, commuted the prison sentences or vowed to dismiss the cases of all of the 1,500-plus people charged with crimes during the Capitol assault, including those convicted of attacking officers with makeshift weapons such as flagpoles, a hockey stick and a crutch.
On Monday, the justice department announced the creation of a $1.776bn fund meant to compensate Trump allies who feel they were unjustly investigated and prosecuted. The acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, has not ruled out that rioters convicted of violence will be eligible for payouts, prompting bipartisan anger in Congress.
After a journalist on Friday observed on the social media platform X that the justice department was “quietly” removing news releases on its website that were related to the January 6 attack, including about a Texas man who pleaded guilty to assault and also faced separate state charges of soliciting a minor, the department responded through its “rapid response” account that there was “nothing ‘quiet’ about it”.
“We are proud to reverse the [justice department’s] weaponization under the Biden administration. We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes,” the post said. “This includes stripping [the justice department’s] website of partisan propaganda.”
Among the releases removed from the site were those concerning seditious conspiracy cases against members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, far-right extremist groups. The justice department, in an unopposed motion last month, asked a federal appeals court to vacate those seditious conspiracy convictions, a request that was granted on Thursday. The department on Friday moved to dismiss the cases against the group members.
What stands out is department of Justice acknowledges the removal of news releases about criminal cases related to 2021 Capitol. That is the part worth paying attention to.
On one hand department of Justice acknowledges the removal of news releases about criminal cases related to 2021 Capitol. But at the same time on Monday, the justice department announced the creation of a $1.776bn fund meant to compensate Trump allies who feel they were unjustly investigated and prosecuted.
Democrat Joe has been vocal about this, good to see them staying on it.
If department of Justice acknowledges the removal of news releases about criminal cases related to 2021 Capitol, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
Democrat Joe has been pushing this agenda for a while now.
Think about it: on Monday, the justice department announced the creation of a $1.776bn fund meant to compensate Trump allies who feel they were unjustly investigated and prosecuted. That speaks volumes.
If among the releases removed from the site were those concerning seditious conspiracy cases against members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, far-right extremist groups, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
In other words “We are proud to reverse the [justice department’s] weaponization under the Biden administration. Curious to see how this develops.
So the bottom line is department of Justice acknowledges the removal of news releases about criminal cases related to 2021 Capitol. Wonder how this will land.
When you look at on Monday, the justice department announced the creation of a $1.776bn fund meant to compensate Trump allies who feel they were unjustly investigated and prosecuted, the implications are hard to ignore.
The fact that on Monday, the justice department announced the creation of a $1.776bn fund meant to compensate Trump allies who feel they were unjustly investigated and prosecuted really puts things into perspective.
What stands out is on Monday, the justice department announced the creation of a $1.776bn fund meant to compensate Trump allies who feel they were unjustly investigated and prosecuted. That is the part worth paying attention to.
Reading that among the releases removed from the site were those concerning seditious conspiracy cases against members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, far-right extremist groups — hard to argue with the logic there.
In other words on Monday, the justice department announced the creation of a $1.776bn fund meant to compensate Trump allies who feel they were unjustly investigated and prosecuted. Curious to see how this develops.
Considering “We are proud to reverse the [justice department’s] weaponization under the Biden administration, it raises some real questions about what happens next.