It’s one thing when the Department of Justice declines to make a big deal about something that may not be a big deal. Understandable, even. You don’t want to cause unnecessary panic or put anything in motion that could siphon time or resources from something more important.

Reports about a large mob of people attacking the Capitol shouldn’t have been on the list of things that were no big deal.

That’s exactly how the DOJ treated them, though, according to recent findings by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. CREW found that the DOJ considered briefing Congress on expected “unrest” at the Capitol that week. Somehow, even though it was expected, they decided not to.

CREW made the determination after obtaining records of internal DOJ memos from the time.

Those records show that Trump officials considered issuing statements, giving interviews, and even interagency briefings that would have been made before Congress. They ultimately decided not to do any of those things, despite the fact that they had solid evidence of a coordinated protest at the Capitol, specifically on January 6.

It’s no small wonder they’d have gotten that proof — it was all over the internet. The people setting up the “Stop the Steal” rally couldn’t have been more blatant. It was those loose lips, in fact, that led to the arrests of nearly 800 people in connection with the attack.

It could be that the reasoning behind their decision is somewhere in the blacked-out sections of the memos that were finally surrendered to CREW in their Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.

But it certainly doesn’t look good for Trump or the employees in his Justice Department if it appears to be a case of either being unconcerned or worse yet, siding with the insurrectionists that day.

You can read CREW’s entire report and see the redacted responses they got here.

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