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Trump DOJ deletes Jan. 6 prosecution press releases from website

newsMay 27, 202677

The Trump Department of Justice removed government news releases about Jan. 6 prosecutions from the DOJ website, including releases that described violent assaults on Capitol police officers. NPR found the deletions included announcements of charges, plea agreements, convictions and sentencing for rioters WHO stormed the U.S. Capitol. Removing those official releases shrinks the public record of how federal prosecutors documented and punished the attack, making it harder for journalists, historians and the public to cite primary DOJ materials.

The Big G
@wrgerlach.bsky.social

Trump DOJ mass-deletes info on Jan. 6 riot cases, including violent assaults on cops - NPR “While the government continues to remove information on the attack, NPR’s database and visual archive of the attack remains accessible.” This is horrible and so wrong to have the government rewrite history!

213d ago
Mark
@njdoc.bsky.social

The Trump Department of Justice purged government news releases with information about prosecutions of rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol and assaulted law enforcement on Jan. 6, 2021. n.pr/4fIahhF

113d ago
RawLawDog
@rawlawdog.bsky.social

This should not only backfire on the mod-cons but it should cement their legacy as the infantile anti-democratic insurrectionists they are. Mass-deleting truth only puts the truth in everyone’s faces. I can’t wait until these brazen criminals pay for their perfidy.

313d ago
Neil Turkewitz
@neilturkewitz.bsky.social

Is this fascism yet? This is quietly perhaps the most terrifying act of the Trump Administration yet—the literal erasure of history. Optimistically, we are on the precipice of complete darkness. There are other, less cheery, possibilities.

113d ago
Siriusly Star-Crossed
@starry-eyedfool.bsky.social

Trump DOJ mass-deletes info on Jan. 6 riot cases, including violent assaults on cops - NPR -That’s bad. But, um thousands of us have photos, home made videos, etc, saved of 1/6 onto flash drives, hard drives or transferred to film! Because we do not TRUST the government! apple.news/AmcCY87ZlSi-...

13d ago
EZTempo
@eztempo.bsky.social

Isn’t this what the Soviets did with their historic documents viz Trotsky and other “not Stalin” Bolsheviks? Erase the record? apple.news/AmcCY87ZlSi-...

13d ago
lynmarshphd.bsky.social
@lynmarshphd.bsky.social

It’s really insane when NPR has to become a truth sayer because our govt destroys and insults truth apple.news/AmcCY87ZlSi-...

13d ago
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