'Nixon had an 18.5-minute gap in his White House tapes,' noted CREWcrew. 'Trump has a 7.5-hour gap in phone logs from January 6th.'
Tuesday that"the lack of an official White House notation of any calls placed to or by Trump for 457 minutes on January 6, 2021—from 11:17 a.m. to 6:54 p.m.—means the committee has no record of his phone conversations as his supporters descended on the Capitol, battled overwhelmed police, and forcibly entered the building, prompting lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence to flee for safety.
"The 11 pages of records, which consist of the president's official daily diary and the White House switchboard call logs, were turned over by the National Archives earlier this year to the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack," noted the news outlets, which obtained the documents.The records show that Trump was active on the phone for part of the day, documenting conversations that he had with at least eight people in the morning and 11 people that evening.
The House panel is now investigating whether Trump communicated that day through backchannels, phones of aides or personal disposable phones, known as 'burner phones,' according to two people with knowledge of the probe. One unnamed lawmaker on the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack, which is working to discern Trump's activities during the assault that he helped provoke, told thethat the panel is probing a"possible coverup" of official White House phone records from that day.
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