White House Publishes Jan. 6 Website (/j6/) Celebrating Pardons, Calling Prosecutions 'Darkest Wrongs in Modern American History'

On the fifth anniversary of the January 6 Capitol attack, the Trump White House launched an official government website (whitehouse.gov/j6/) that rewrites the history of that day, portraying those who stormed the Capitol as victims of injustice. The site claims Trump's mass pardons on Inauguration Day 2025 corrected 'one of the darkest wrongs in modern American history' and describes the approximately 1,500 pardoned individuals as 'patriotic citizens who had been viciously overcharged, denied due process, and held as political hostages by a vengeful regime.' The website characterizes the violent attack—which injured over 140 police officers—as a miscarriage of justice, contradicting the documented violence and constitutional crisis of that day. Federal judges, including U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, have condemned the pardons as based on 'revisionist myth' that 'cannot whitewash the blood, feces, and terror that the mob left in its wake.' The website remained active as of public...

"President Trump wasted no time righting one of the darkest wrongs in modern American history...issuing sweeping pardons and commutations for the vast majority of January 6 defendants—patriotic citizens who had been viciously overcharged, denied due process, and held as politic..." — From the official White House website commemorating the January 6 pardons