{"id":1411,"date":"2026-05-26T04:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2026-05-26T04:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:34:48","slug":"trumps-justice-department-scrubs-its-website-of-news-releases-about-jan-6-defendants-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=1411","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Justice Department scrubs its website of news releases about Jan. 6 defendants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong> | The Department of Justice is acknowledging it has removed from its website news releases about criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, calling the information about the prosecutions \u201cpartisan propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>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 President Donald Trump stormed the building in an effort to halt the congressional certification of his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>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 crutch.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Justice Department announced the creation of a $1.776 billion fund meant to compensate Trump allies who feel they were unjustly investigated and prosecuted. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has not ruled out that rioters convicted of violence will be eligible for payouts, prompting bipartisan anger in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/denvermovingchronicle.com\/?p=1408\">There\u2019s no longer a risk of a catastrophic explosion at a California plant. Here\u2019s what to know<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>After a journalist on Friday observed on the social media platform X that the Justice Department was \u201cquietly\u201d removing news releases on its website that were related to the Jan. 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 \u201crapid response\u201d account that there was \u201cnothing \u2018quiet\u2019 about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to reverse the DOJ\u2019s weaponization under the Biden administration. We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes,\u201d the post said. \u201cThis includes stripping DOJ\u2019s website of partisan propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the releases removed from the site were those concerning seditious conspiracy cases against members of the Proud Boys and 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 Thursday. 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