Trump Pushes New Rewrite of Riot History as DOJ Deletes Jan. 6 Assault Records 5/27/26

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The episode discusses the Trump administration's efforts to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and the implications of the DOJ's actions.

A new NPR report reveals the Department of Justice, under the Trump administration, systematically removed news releases and public records connected to prosecutions from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. That includes records documenting violent assaults on police. Some records have been preserved by independent trackers and NPR’s Jan. 6 archive. Even so, the effort to wipe away criminal records fits into broader actions by the Trump administration, like mass pardons, personnel changes at DOJ, and public messaging that attempts to reframe the riot. We welcome presidential historian John Rothmann, host of the podcast ‘Around the Political World with John Rothmann,’to examine where we’ve seen this type of dry cleaning of facts before. We continue the conversation with journalist Isaac Saul, from Tangle. https://www.readtangle.com The Mark Thompson Show 5/27/28 Today's Guests Links Isaac Saul from Tangle https://www.readtangle.com/ John Rothmann https://www.spreaker.com/show/around-the-political-world https://www.youtube.com/@aroundthepoliticalworld_ The Rundown- 0:00 Welcome 4:02 RFK Snakes 5:55 Iran and Gas Prices 25:22 J6 30:11 John Rothmann -Trump Corruption -Paxton…

People in this episode

Host: Mark Thompson

Guests: John Rothmann, Isaac Saul

Topics covered

• Trump administration
• Jan. 6 Capitol riot
• Department of Justice
• historical revisionism
• political commentary
• media integrity

Keywords

• Trump
• Jan. 6
• Department of Justice
• historical revisionism
• John Rothmann
• Isaac Saul
• NPR
• political commentary

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Department of Justice, NPR, Tangle

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