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BlueWaveNeverEnd

(15,041 posts)
Sat May 23, 2026, 06:59 AM 7 hrs ago

DOJ deletes press releases on charges against Jan. 6 rioters as "partisan propaganda"

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-department-deletes-press-releases-charges-jan-6-rioters-rcna346613

Justice Department deletes press releases on charges against Jan. 6 rioters
The Justice Department confirmed that it had deleted the press releases as part of “stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.”


The Justice Department has removed press releases detailing the charges against hundreds of individuals who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot from its website, the department confirmed Friday.

“Nothing ‘quiet’ about it,” the DOJ Rapid Response X account said in a post replying to allegations that the Justice Department had deleted press releases related to Jan. 6.

“We are proud to reverse the DOJ’s weaponization under the Biden administration,” the post continued. “We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes. This includes stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.”

A review by NBC News found that the vast majority of press releases pertaining to Jan. 6 defendants have been removed from the DOJ website as of Friday evening.

The move to wipe hundreds of press releases from the official government site is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to reframe the Jan. 6 siege and to paint the rioters who participated in it as victims.
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DOJ deletes press releases on charges against Jan. 6 rioters as "partisan propaganda" (Original Post) BlueWaveNeverEnd 7 hrs ago OP
Attempting to rewrite history malaise 7 hrs ago #1
Unwriting erasing history underpants 6 hrs ago #5
There are court records malaise 4 hrs ago #6
The releases are still "out there" aren't they? mobeau69 7 hrs ago #2
The magnitude... GiqueCee 7 hrs ago #3
We the People in the past was protected by the DOJ............... Lovie777 6 hrs ago #4

mobeau69

(12,466 posts)
2. The releases are still "out there" aren't they?
Sat May 23, 2026, 07:17 AM
7 hrs ago

Surely they’ve been copied by outside organizations/people.

GiqueCee

(4,774 posts)
3. The magnitude...
Sat May 23, 2026, 07:28 AM
7 hrs ago

... of Republican depravity continues to swell like an enormous bubonic pustule.

Lovie777

(23,770 posts)
4. We the People in the past was protected by the DOJ...............
Sat May 23, 2026, 07:37 AM
6 hrs ago

present time We the People are the enemy from the agency that suppose to protect us.

Plus, this current body of taxpayer's agency is using our monies to destroy us.

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