The hours of witness testimony, reams of documents, immersive graphic displays and sheer astonishment of the revelations from the House select committee hearings investigating the riot that unfolded at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, may be one of the most compelling stories to come out of the U.S. Congress — but perhaps more compelling has been all the information erased, wiped, deleted and otherwise obscured by members of former President Donald Trump's administration in the days, weeks and months after the failed insurrection.
involved in responding to the attack had their government-issued phones"wiped" as part of what the Pentagon called a standard process for departing employees.
The House committee is continuing to probe for more evidence related to the Jan. 6 insurrection, including seeking deleted texts. Staff for the panel declined to comment for this story.But the seeming obfuscation has been impossible to ignore. When the Jan. 6 committee hosted its"season finale" last month, it— the more than three hours between when Trump finished his speech to supporters on the Ellipse near the White House to when he finally called off the rioters.
White House call logs and the president’s daily diary for much of that stretch of time were empty, and Trump’s photographer at the White House was told “no photographs” during that period as he sat glued to Fox News watching the riot unfold. But, as the committee detailed, Trump was on the phone extensively with Rudy Giuliani, one of his lawyers at the time, and was even lobbying senators, as they were being evacuated, to try and overturn his election loss.
Investigators have been able to use documents from various court cases and even public interviews to fill in gaps in the timeline of that day. But breakthroughs sometimes seem to have been almost accidental. One of the greatest treasure troves of information came from former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows before he
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