The Justice Department spent Memorial Day weekend deleting the record of who attacked the Capitol.
Press releases announcing the charges against Jan. 6 rioters disappeared from DOJ’s website. After a Washington Post reporter noticed, DOJ replied on X: “Nothing quiet about it. We are proud,” calling the deleted record “partisan propaganda.”
Police officers, led by the U.S. Capitol Police, defended the Vice President and Congress on January 6. DOJ brought more than a thousand cases against the rioters who attacked them, then erased its own record of that work on the weekend Americans remember the people who died defending the country.
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