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Saturday, January 11, 2025

Meme Rehashes Old, False Claim That J6 Committee Destroyed Evidence - FactCheck.org

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The House committee that investigated the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, issued a more than 800-page report presenting and analyzing the evidence about what happened that day. It also released videos, transcribed interviews, depositions and other documents. But some high-profile conservatives are now making the false claim that the committee destroyed “all the evidence.”

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The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol issued a more than 800-page report in 2022 that detailed how former President Donald Trump’s false claims undermining the integrity of the 2020 election led to the Capitol riot.

The committee also released more than 140 transcripts of the testimony that went into the report and has made public videos, depositions and documents — including memos, emails and voicemails.

But now, in the final weeks before the 2024 election, some conservative influencers — including Donald Trump Jr. and Jack Posobiec — are spreading a meme making the false claim that the committee destroyed “all the evidence” linking Trump to the attack.

The meme features a picture of Al Pacino in the 1983 film “Scarface” with this text: “If Trump was guilty why did the J6 Select Committee destroy all the evidence they compiled against him?”

The committee did no such thing.

The claim that the committee destroyed evidence appears to be a reprise of a...



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