National Public Radio reported that an investigation uncovered President Donald Trump's efforts to eliminate all information and intelligence related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
According to the audio report by Tom Dreisbach and Ayesha Rascoe, they have responded by creating a public archive of all videos, audio files, photos and other information available about the Jan. 6 attack, and they will make it searchable.
Dreisbach explained that the Trump administration is "actively trying to rewrite this history." He recalled that when it all unfolded a few years ago, the public, along with Republicans, agreed that Jan. 6 was illegal and reprehensible.
Even Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called it "an act of domestic terrorism."
Five years later, everyone involved received a blanket pardon, including "great patriots" who attacked police. In a statement played by the reporters, Trump claimed they were not violent.
"The Justice Department has deleted records of those cases. It has scrubbed references to Jan. 6 as a riot. They fired dozens of prosecutors who worked on those cases. They even hired a former Jan. 6 defendant at the Justice Department, a guy who called cops Nazis and loudly yelled that the rioters should kill the cops," said Dreisbach.
Once the details began to disappear, Chief Justice James Boasberg of the D.C. district court ordered the government to stop any and all removal of court records related to Jan. 6. It's unclear whether that order has been followed, however.
"So, with all those actions to rewrite this history, we thought it was really important to just ground people in the facts," he continued.
The 1,500 court cases included photos, videos and information that Dreisbach said most Americans haven't seen. So, they took the "massive trove of evidence" to catalogue and ensure it is publicly available.
The full archive can be found here.
