7 Hour Gap In Trump Phone Records During Jan 6 Invasion

Official White House records released to the House select committee investigating the violent January 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol Building show a 7 hour gap in Donald Trump’s phone logs.

Forget Nixon’s 18 minute gap. The Jan. 6 White House logs given to the House show a 7-HOUR gap in Trump’s phone calls. https://t.co/A9H1qeR5Vd

— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) March 29, 2022

From the Washington Post:

The lack of an official White House notation of any calls placed to or by Trump for 457 minutes on Jan. 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 seven-hour gap also stands in stark contrast to the extensive public reporting about phone conversations he had with allies during the attack, such as a call Trump made to Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) — seeking to talk to Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) — and a phone conversation he had with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).

Read the full article here. As many have noted, a 7 hour gap makes Nixon’s 18 minutes of missing tape in the Watergate scandal look like nothing. Related: Trump Calls Jan 6 Invasion “Beautiful Time” With “Loving People” One member of the House select committee told the Post the panel is now looking into whether Trump communicated through the use of disposable phones or “burner phones” to cover his tracks. In response to the report, Trump said Monday night, “I have no idea what a burner phone is, to the best of my knowledge I have never even heard the term.”

BREAKING: CBS News and the Washington Post have obtained White House records turned over to the House, which show a gap in President Donald Trump’s phone logs of seven hours and 37 minutes on January 6. https://t.co/52MSlvy5f9

— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 29, 2022

BREAKING: The records turned over to the January 6th committee show a 7-hour gap on Donald Trump’s phone, which covers the time of the insurrection.

So Trump’s BEST CASE SCENARIO is that the Capitol was under attack and no one bothered to call him while it was happening. — Steve Hofstetter (@SteveHofstetter) March 29, 2022