Justice Department pulls all January 6 info offline

You're watching the Legal Breakdown, Glenn. The DOJ has just been caught. pulling a sneaky move. Can you explain. what they just did? >> Yeah, Brian, you know, I woke up this. morning and I went to DOJ's website and. it turns out, at least based on the. website, January 6th, 2021 never. happened. There was no capital attack. I. don't know, maybe we had a collective. fever dream as the American people, but. no, January 6th did happen and DOJ did. investigate and prosecute more than.

1,600. of the rioters, the attackers, the. insurrectionists, but DOJ, under the. sort of dark of night, took everything. off of its website. All of the press. releases talking about the indictments. and the convictions of the January 6th. attackers that prosecutors, you know, by. the hundreds won, secured, that juries, by the hundreds, grand juries indicted, trial juries convicted. All poof, gone.

from DOJ's website. as if they can just erase it from. American history, erase it from the. history books that will be written. Let's remember, it still exists in all. of the court files, in the docket. entries of literally thousands of cases. So, you know, this is just more of the. Trump administration's propaganda. I. mean, George Orwell in 1984 would blush.

at what the Trump administration is. trying to get away with, just. misdirecting the American people and. trying to fool them into thinking, well, maybe January 6th didn't happen at all. >> Do you presume that there's a reason. that they're doing this now? Does this. kind of signal or suggest that something. is coming down the pike as it relates to. January 6th? >> Oh, no doubt, Brian. So, we all have. seen this horrific 1.8 nearly 1.8. billion dollars slush fund for.

insurrectionists. and other friends and associates and. maybe family members of Donald Trump and. it is being challenged in court by. multiple parties and people and. ultimately I think it will be dismantled. by the courts. It will be struck down. Um, but it's it's pretty clear to me. I'm going to draw some reasonable. inferences here. You have the information on DOJ's. website documenting why these January. 6th attackers are not entitled to be.

paid as victims from the 1.7 1.8 billion. dollar slush fund. There is the evidence. that would undercut their attempt to get. paid from that slush fund by our tax. dollars, mind you. And so DOJ's approach. to that, let's call it an incongruity, an inconsistency, when DOJ has on its. website, here's the horrible things. these January 6th insurrectionists did. right on our website and now they're.

asking to be paid because they're. victims. I know what we'll do. We'll. just take down the truthful accurate. information from our website. You know. what this looks like to me, Brian? Now, yes, when you're a hammer, everything. looks like a nail. When you're a. prosecutor, maybe everything looks like. a crime, but that doesn't mean it's not. This to me looks like Todd Blanche and. Donald Trump's other dirty DOJ officials. in a conspiracy, at least practically.

speaking, with the January 6th rioters, attackers, insurrectionists in a. conspiracy to get them paid with our tax. dollars. Because what they're doing is. taking from public view the evidence. that would make clear they're not. entitled to be paid with our tax. dollars. Somebody would need to explain. to me why that is not Todd Blanche in at. least a practical, if not legal, conspiracy.

to steal taxpayer dollars and give it to. insurrectionists, rioters, people who. attacked the police. You know, and at. its core, I've said many times over, this entire sad chapter in our nation's. history makes it clear Donald Trump. doesn't back the blue. He backs those. who beat the blue. And now, the same can. be said of acting attorney general Todd. Blanche. >> Now, you used the word conspiracy as it.

relates to Todd Blanche. I'm assuming. that you did so advisedly. And so, recognizing that Todd Blanche may be in. a legal conspiracy to basically steal. our tax dollars to get insurrectionists. paid, is this something that the bar. council where Todd Blanche is barred. could look at and say that you're. abusing your position, you're abusing uh. your law license, and it might be. grounds for an investigation or. suspension? >> You know, there's going to be an entire. buffet of misconduct to choose from when. ultimately Donald Trump falls from.

power, Todd Blanche falls from power, and Todd Blanche gets investigated by. his bar council. I believe he holds his. law license in New York. This will be. one of many uh unethical acts by Todd. Blanche that will ultimately, I believe, result in a finding of misconduct. and likely disbarment. That is the most. extreme sanction a bar council can hand. out to somebody who holds a a license to. practice law in their state. Um so,

yeah, I I I have no doubt that all of. this will result in Todd Blanche going. the way of Rudy Giuliani and Kenneth. Chesebro and John Eastman and Jeffrey. Clark. Those are former Trump lawyers or. Trump affiliated lawyers who have been. disbarred because they were serving dear. leader rather than serving the rule of. law, complying with their own ethical. canons, and if they're DOJ officials. serving the American people.

Um and it's it's bewildering to me, Brian, why the Todd Blanche's of, you. know, our present Department of Justice. don't look to those disbarred and. sanctioned lawyers as a cautionary tale. Why, you know, and let me just say this. You know, the. the if we look back to 1974, right? There were a whole host of. co-conspirators with President Richard. Nixon, and what were they doing? They. were involved in a conspiracy. They were.

committing crimes with and for the. benefit of Richard Nixon, and I'll bet. while they were doing it, they were. feeling bulletproof, right? They were. like, "Hey, we're with the president. He's going to have our back. We're. beyond the reach of the law. We're. untouchable." And then once Richard. Nixon fell from power, you know what. happened? 48 of them, 48 of his criminal. associates, his corrupt administration. officials were convicted of crimes in. federal court, and 30 of them went to. prison. So, these days, you know, I'm.

really much more interested in the. number 48 and 30 than I am in the number. 86 and 47. >> Last question here, Glenn. To that end, what needs to happen in the aftermath of. this administration if we're fortunate. enough to have a Democratic president. take control, a Democratic Attorney. General take control? Because we've seen. in the aftermath of the Trump. administration what it looks like when. we have a Merrick Garland type figure. come in and say, "Look, our our our goal. here is to put this behind us and try.

and reconcile our differences and just. move forward um. as opposed to kind of taking this. corruption head-on and offering some. deterrent effect.". >> Yeah, the blueprint is clear. The task. won't necessarily be easy, but deciding. what to do couldn't be simpler because. it's just good law enforcement. What you. do is you fully. fairly, aggressively, and apolitically.

investigate the crimes that were. committed in violation of our federal. laws against the American people during. the Trump administration. And you collect up all of the evidence, you present it to a grand jury, and you. let the grand jury, sitting as the. conscience of the community, decide if. there's enough evidence to indict. If. there is, you then go into federal. court, you impanel 12 citizens uh. sitting in a jury box as the conscience. of the community. Once again, you.

present the evidence to them, and you. let the jury make the decision. That, Brian, is what accountability looks. like. And accountability this time. around is non-negotiable. We dropped the. accountability ball in '74 when Gerald. Ford pardoned Richard Nixon for his. crimes against the American people. We. dropped it again, as you referred to, Merrick Garland did not get off the dime. nearly fast enough, and in some ways he. never got off the dime at all. And.

accountability for Trump and his. criminal associates just kind of slipped. away from us. It timed out because Trump. got Remember, Trump was being prosecuted. in the two criminal cases when he got. reelected, and those criminal cases had. to be shelved, but they can, should, and. must be rebrought. That is the. classified documents case and the. January 6th case. They have to be. rebrought once Donald Trump falls from. power. Again, um we can't just drop the. accountability ball a third time.

Because if we do, I don't think we get. to keep our republic, and it's an. academic question whether we deserve to. keep our republic if we drop the. accountability ball a third time, but. frankly if we drop it again, I don't. think we get to keep our republic. >> I think that's exactly right. So, to. that end, for those who are watching. right now, if you'd like to help elevate. Glenn's voice and and help grow his. footprints in this space, please. subscribe to his channel. I'm going to. put the link to his YouTube channel. right here on the screen and also in the. post description. If you'd like to. support my work, the best way to do that.

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