The Trump Justice Department has deleted hundreds of press releases from its own website that documented charges, guilty pleas, convictions, and sentencings tied to the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack. The deletions, confirmed by the department on Friday, May 23, 2026, are described as part of what DOJ called “stripping DOJ's website of partisan propaganda.”
The DOJ Rapid Response account on X posted: “Nothing 'quiet' about it. We are proud to reverse the DOJ's weaponization under the Biden administration.” Prior to deletion, the releases formed the public-record summary for more than 1,500 federal Jan 6 cases — the largest single-event investigation and prosecution program in DOJ history. They named defendants, recorded the assault on the Capitol, documented police officer injuries, and listed sentences. Their removal does not affect court records, which remain on PACER, but it does erase the department's own public narrative of the prosecutions.
The deletion fits a documented pattern of the administration's Jan 6 revisionism. Trump pardoned almost all Jan 6 defendants on his first day back in office; the White House published a page at whitehouse.gov/j6 reframing the attack as a “peaceful protest turned tragedy” (see White House Website Rewrites January 6 History); and DOJ vacated seditious-conspiracy convictions against Proud Boys and Oath Keepers (see The DOJ Moves to Fully Erase the Seditious Conspiracy Convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers Leaders So They Can Never Be Re-Prosecuted). The press-release scrub is a distinct action by a distinct agency (DOJ, not the White House) targeting different documents.