The Trump administration has mass-deleted Department of Justice news releases tied to nearly 1,600 January 6 criminal cases — including some of the most violent assaults on law enforcement that day.
Justice Department news releases detailing guilty pleas, jury verdicts, and prison sentences related to the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot abruptly disappeared from government websites last week. The removals included cases involving defendants who were convicted of assaulting police officers and sentenced to years in federal prison. Clicking on previously accessible DOJ links now returns a “Page not found” error.
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WHAT HAPPENED
The DOJ defended the mass deletion on social media, stating it was “proud to reverse the DOJ’s weaponization under the Biden administration” and that the removals represent stripping the website of “partisan propaganda.” However, a review found that deleted material included some of the most significant convictions from that day. Christopher Alberts, convicted by a jury of assaulting police officers with a wooden pallet and carrying a loaded handgun on Capitol grounds, had his seven-year prison sentence wiped from the public record. Peter Schwartz, convicted of assaulting police with pepper spray and hurling a metal chair at law enforcement, had his 14-year sentence similarly erased.
These weren’t contested cases. These were jury verdicts — convictions handed down by American citizens in a court of law. President Trump had already granted full pardons to all January 6 defendants, including those convicted of violent assaults and seditious conspiracy. But now the administration has gone further, removing the documented public record of those prosecutions from government websites entirely.
Separately, federal courts and 14 media organizations have been fighting to preserve video exhibits tied to January 6 trials. A filing in federal court this week alleged that video evidence for at least one defendant had disappeared from the court’s secure portal, USAfx — a portal that exists specifically under a 2021 standing court order requiring the DOJ to preserve such records. The Press Coalition is seeking a court order to compel the DOJ to restore and explain the missing material.
The broader erasure follows a pattern: Trump previously settled a wrongful death lawsuit from the estate of Ashli Babbitt for nearly $5 million, and the White House published a fifth-anniversary website that described January 6 rioters as “patriots.”
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WHY THIS MATTERS
Patriots can — and do — disagree about how January 6 prosecutions were handled. Many conservatives, including this page, have long argued that the Biden DOJ went too far, targeting non-violent protesters with excessive charges while ignoring the left’s own history of political violence. Those concerns were legitimate. But erasing the documented record of jury verdicts and violent convictions is a different thing entirely. Public court records exist so that citizens can hold their government accountable — including a DOJ that they believe acted unfairly. Deleting those records doesn’t fix past weaponization. It just creates new opacity.
The officers who were assaulted on January 6 are still alive. They still remember what happened to them. BACK THE BLUE means backing them too — even when it’s politically inconvenient. The men and women of law enforcement deserve a government that doesn’t erase what was done to them, regardless of who did it or why.
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THE BIGGER PICTURE
The administration’s $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” — which may compensate even violent rioters — combined with the mass deletion of prosecution records raises a legitimate question: where does accountability end and whitewashing begin? America First conservatives built their movement on law and order, on Back the Blue, on the idea that no one is above the law — including the political class. That principle has to apply consistently. While working Americans are focused on the border, taxes, and the economy, they should also be watching how their government handles the historical record. Erasing inconvenient facts is what the Left does. It shouldn’t become what we do.
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OUR TAKE
America Learing Center stands for the truth — all of it. We’ve called out Democrat overreach on January 6 prosecutions for years. And we’ll call this out too: a government that mass-deletes court records is a government that doesn’t trust its own citizens with the facts. Patriots don’t need a sanitized history. They need an honest one. The officers who bled on those steps deserve better than having their attackers’ records quietly erased from the public domain.
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