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White House records obtained so far by January 6 committee show no record of calls to and from Trump during riot

posted 3 years ago by robocat893 (16257)
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White House call records now in possession of congressional investigators do not reflect calls made to or from then-President Donald Trump as the violence unfolded on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, leaving them with gaps so far in their understanding of what transpired that day, three sources familiar with the House investigation into the insurrection tell CNN.

The records the House select committee has obtained do not contain entries of phone calls between the President and lawmakers that have been widely reported in the press. Trump was known to make calls using personal cell phones, which could account for those.

Two of the sources, who have also reviewed the presidential diary from that day, say it contains scant information and no record of phone calls for several hours after Trump returned to the Oval Office after giving a speech to his supporters at the Ellipse until he emerged to address the nation in a video from the Rose Garden.

More troubles for Trump..

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/10/politics/trump-white-house-records/index.html

[–] ultravioletx (10237) 3 years ago

Weird huh.

[–] JoWilli (21649) 3 years ago

ya'll need a new hobby...

maybe support your president?

[–] robocat893 (16257) 3 years ago

I just like poking fun at Trump because he's a source of nonstop hilarity. Biden is boring.

[–] joej2923 (3149) 3 years ago

Trump usually gets others to do his dirty work. Trump also won't put anything in writing since he doesn't want a trail that leads to him. He will tell someone working for him to make it happen and pitch a fit until it happens. I wouldn't be surprised if Trump used someone else's phone or a burner if he even directly communicated with the senators. The investigators probably have to rely on snitches/rats to confirm that Trump was aware of the plan to overturn the election. Trump was also putting immense pressure on Mike Pence to do his dirty work.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/28/politics/donald-trump-michael-cohen-world/index.html ** Trump's mob boss MO **

Preet Bharara, a former US attorney for the Southern District of New York who’s a CNN senior legal analyst, said the accounts of Trump’s apparently veiled instructions to Cohen were “the kind of thing you see in mob cases.”

“It’s the kind of thing you see in environments in which people do bad things but they don’t want to be on the hook and on the record as asking someone to do a bad thing. It happens all the time,” Bharara said on CNN’s “The Situation Room.”