The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It

Monday, June 01, 2026

Last week, the Justice Department deleted thousands of press releases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and other matters. Here they are.

Posted by lamplighter at 09:33 PM | 3 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

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It's no big surprise that Trump's DOJ is deleting all of the January 6th press releases from its website. Here's the thing: I downloaded all of them in Feb. 2025 (that's right, more than a year ago) suspecting that they'd do just that. And we're working to post them all online, as are others.

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... "The Trump admin is quietly deleting info about the Capitol attack from the DOJ website as it prepares to give funds to J6ers," Kornfield posted. "This week, DOJ deleted a press release about one man with an ongoing child solicitation case who came to the Capitol with bear spray."

Then, with typical bombast, the Justice Department responded by taking issue with one particular aspect of Kornfield's characterization. "Nothing quiet' about it," the DOJ Rapid Response account replied. "We are proud to reverse the DOJ's weaponization under the Biden administration. We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes. This includes stripping DOJ's website of partisan propaganda."

We are not erasing history quietly, the Justice Department seemed to suggest. We are erasing history loudly and proudly.

At Lawfare, we have restored the vast bulk of what was deleted[1]. We have also started to preemptively archive a raft of material that has not yet been deleted but probably will be, given its thematic relationship to the material that was 86ed.

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1 - The January 6 Project www.lawfaremedia.org

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-01 02:33 PM | Reply

Kudos to those who are saving history, against Pres Trump's attempts to erase it.

"Who Controls the Past Controls the Future" " The Timeless Warning from George Orwell (2025)
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... History is not just a record of what happened; it's a battlefield of power, memory, and truth. When George Orwell wrote:

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

He exposed one of humanity's most dangerous temptations -- the urge to rewrite reality itself.

In 1984, this idea becomes the foundation of totalitarian control: by changing yesterday's story, rulers shape tomorrow's beliefs.

But Orwell's insight goes far beyond fiction. What happens when the present manipulates history? Can a society that forgets truth still build a free future? ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-01 10:29 PM | Reply

Too bad history rewards the psychopathic bloody bullies who murder and call it leadership, and lead from being the worst of the worst, terrorists with a joy of killing, for in one regard history has to mention Trump, he is a man who, without talent or a vision, stole a political party, the Republican Party, and used it to steal from the people, mercilessly. Just as was done as the Soviet Union fell and the billionaires looted the treasury and everything that wasn't nailed down.

#3 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-06-02 06:39 AM | Reply