House Jan. 6 Committee deleted more than 100 encrypted files days before GOP took majority: sources
FOX NewsAUG 2023
Report: House Jan. 6 Committee Deleted Files Days Before GOP Took Majority
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The Spin
Pro-Trump narrative
Given that their goal was never to elucidate what actually happened that day, but to damage Trump's reputation and defeat him, it's no wonder that the Jan. 6 Select Committee encrypted and deleted so many files. Should these documents ever be recovered, they will show that then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and her allies are those responsible for the escalation of the riot, as she rejected an offer Trump made to enhance security.
Anti-Trump narrative
The House GOP is merely reviving an already debunked story to try to discredit the probe into the Jan. 6 riot. Former Chair Bennie Thompson explained in July that the alleged missing material was, in fact, withheld from the archives to protect witnesses as the committee was disbanded before a full review of its sensitivity. As for Trump's claims, there's no indication that any material concerns his professed offer to former Speaker Pelosi.