Weekend Report: DOJ purges all news releases about Jan 6th criminals from website

Plus: Devastating Fox poll may tell the story behind Senate GOP pushback on Trump. And: Eight House Democrats voted for ugly “don’t say trans” bill that promotes outing trans students to parents.

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The Department of Justice deleted news releases about criminal cases related to January 6th from government websites and is boasting about it in the wake of the promotion of the $1.8 billion slush fund, which is getting pushback from the GOP. The DOJ called the online records of that terrible day in history and the information about the prosecutions of criminals “partisan propaganda,” all as the Trump administration is intent on rewriting history.

That pushback on the slush fund, which caused the GOP in the Senate to collapse, going home without voting on ICE funding, fearful of Democratic amendments on the slush fund, may be tied to a stunning Fox poll. Fox has been reporting on the poll, described as the most devastating of his presidency, in which Fox reported Trump is underwater with working-class white men and rural voters and has a majority disapproving even on border security.

As Republicans tore themselves apart this weekend, eight Democrats in the House did something disappointing, wrong-headed, unnecessary, and harmful, voting with the GOP on a “don’t say trans” bill that would require schools nationwide to out trans students to their parents and others, even if doing so would put them in physical danger. The group included some surprising House members. This comes as we’ve seen some calls among Democratic centrists to pull back on trans rights when in fact all the data shows that Democratic voters, and most Americans, support equality for trans people.

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