Trump administration removes Jan 6 defendant news releases from DOJ website
The Justice Department has removed news releases about January 6 defendants, deeming the information 'partisan propaganda.' This action is seen as an effort to rewrite the history of the Capitol attack.
The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the January 6, 2021, riot, 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 Capitol, when hundreds of supporters of Republican Donald Trump stormed the building in an.....