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Trump's justice department scrubs its website of news releases about January 6 defendants

Trump's justice department scrubs its website of news releases about January 6 defendants

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/23/trump-justice-department-scrubs-website-january-6-defendants 

 

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Supporters of Donald Trump scale the west wall of the US Capitol as they try to storm the building on 6 January 2021. Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP

Trump's justice department scrubs its website of news releases about January 6 defendants

Department of Justice acknowledges removal of information about criminal cases related to 2021 US Capitol rioters

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.

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