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Donald J. Trump

45th & 47th President of the United States · Executive Branch

Signed the January 20, 2025 clemency proclamation covering January 6 defendants. His administration later announced an Anti-Weaponization Fund on May 18, 2026, but by June 5 Justice Department lawyers represented in federal court that the fund had not been established and was not going forward. The archive therefore does not describe the fund as open or state that a January 6 claim is currently being submitted to it. Related litigation continued over whether DOJ’s position was sufficiently formal and binding.\n\nCURRENT LITIGATION UPDATE, TRUMP v. BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION: Trump’s pending defamation case, No. 1:25-cv-25894-ALTMAN/LETT, concerns a BBC documentary edit that combined separated portions of his January 6, 2021 speech. The BBC acknowledged that the edit created a mistaken impression while disputing legal liability. Reports based on July 16, 2026 court filings state that Trump dropped the two BBC Studios subsidiaries while continuing the action against the British Broadcasting Corporation. The federal docket confirms a July 21 hearing on disputes involving the Trump trust, forty-seven third-party subpoenas concerning January 6, document requests, interrogatories, and requests for admission. Multiple independent reports state that Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué A. Lett permitted financial production and January 6-related third-party discovery. Those outcomes remain attributed to reporting until the native July 16 filing and July 21 order, minute entry, audio, or transcript are captured. The discovery rulings do not decide the ultimate merits of the case. Jury trial is currently set for February 15, 2027, subject to later court modification.\n\nFOIA TRANSPARENCY LITIGATION, AMERICAN OVERSIGHT v. FBI AND DOJ: An ongoing D.D.C. case, No. 1:26-cv-00020, seeks senior DOJ and FBI communications concerning January 6, election certification, and the January 20, 2025 pardons and commutations. The complaint descriptions remain the plaintiff’s allegations, while the filing date and docket activity are procedural facts. The public docket shows status reports through June 29, 2026, but the native complaint, attachments, and status-report files remain pending archive capture. D.D.C. UNSEALING UPDATE, JULY 22, 2026: Law&Crime and The New Republic report that the BBC filed a reply memorandum asking Chief Judge James E. Boasberg to further unseal executive-privilege decisions from the federal January 6 grand-jury investigation. The BBC argues that those rulings may help resolve current privilege objections in the Florida defamation case. This remains a reported pending request: it does not itself unseal the decisions, decide the Florida lawsuit, or establish any person's conduct on January 6.\n\nARCTIC FROST / JACK SMITH OVERSIGHT, JULY 2026: A Justice Department letter released July 14 states that the Special Counsel investigative team directly accessed National Archives text-message spreadsheets involving 44 current or former members of Congress before the established filter-team review was completed. On July 22, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan referred former Special Counsel Jack Smith to DOJ, alleging false or incomplete December 2025 deposition answers. The referral is an allegation and recommendation, not a charge or judicial finding. Smith's attorneys and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin dispute it and state that Smith answered truthfully about toll-record subpoenas, which were distinct from the National Archives production. JACK SMITH DEPOSITION SOURCE RECORD The archive now includes the complete official December 17, 2025 House Judiciary deposition transcript concerning the federal election-related investigation connected to January 6. The record preserves Smith’s attributed testimony, including his distinctions between non-content toll records and message content, together with later disputed oversight claims based on a separate National Archives text-message production. The deposition is source evidence and not a judicial determination of the later referral. LEE v. TRUMP, JULY 22, 2026 IMMUNITY UPDATE: In the consolidated January 6 civil litigation, Judge Amit P. Mehta declined to reconsider his earlier treatment of Donald J. Trump’s 2:24 p.m. January 6 tweet concerning Mike Pence as an official act for civil-immunity purposes. The court nevertheless certified the narrow immunity question for interlocutory D.C. Circuit review. This procedural ruling does not establish civil liability, decide the consolidated cases on the merits, or resolve every allegation concerning the tweet’s effect. The native July 22 order remains an archive capture priority. LEE v. TRUMP, MARCH 31, 2026 PRIMARY OPINION: The archive now preserves Judge Amit P. Mehta’s 79-page ECF No. 219 memorandum opinion and order. The court largely denied Donald J. Trump’s request for summary judgment based on official-acts immunity, while granting immunity for specified conduct it classified as official, including the 2:24 p.m. and 6:01 p.m. January 6 tweets, the Rose Garden remarks, and the Oval Office meeting with Michigan state legislators. The court also denied reconsideration of its First Amendment ruling but certified that issue for interlocutory review and struck the United States’ Westfall Act certification. These rulings did not establish final civil liability, damages, or the truth of every allegation in the consolidated complaints. PRIMARY SOURCE CAPTURE, JUNE 5, 2026: The archive now preserves two native DOJ filings from *Floyd v. DOJ* and *CREW v. DOJ*. Both state that the announced Anti-Weaponization Fund had not been set up and was not going forward, and that no money, claims process, or appointed members existed. A third-party July 22 guide is preserved as a contradicted source rather than official guidance.

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Official Instructions for Requesting a January 6 Pardon Certificate

The DOJ Office of the Pardon Attorney explains how people covered by the January 20, 2025 January 6 pardon proclamation may request a certificate. The requester should email the office with the specified subject line and provide a full name, prison register number if any, and district court case number. Coverage and person-specific certificate status still require individual verification.

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