Oh interesting. Another gap. There was that 18 minute gap on the Nixon phone tapes, and now there’s a seven hour gap on the Trump ones. You’ll never guess which seven hours.
Internal White House records from the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol that were turned over to the House select committee show a gap in President Donald Trump’s phone logs of seven hours and 37 minutes, including the period when the building was being violently assaulted, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post and CBS News.
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.
Oh those hours. Pure coincidence I’m sure.
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 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.).
The House panel is now investigating whether Trump communicated that day through backchannels, phones of aides or personal disposable phones, known as “burner phones,”…
Or just flushed the records down the toilet.
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The ghost of Rosemary Woods is said to haunt the Oval Office. Her specter appears to be getting stronger.
Hold on. Presidential phone calls usually are recorded? It’s like all Watergate, all the time?
@GW,
It’s not the conversations themselves, just the logs. It’s helpful to know who he was talking to, even if we don’t know the exact content of the conversation.
“Hello, Vlad? Sorry to call you on such short notice but I really could use some help here right now.”
Sorry, I should have said the Trump logs, not the Trump ones.
Official calls, like to heads of state, are recorded though. Like that call with Zelenskyy which now looks even more sinister than it did at the time.
This makes no sense, like a “log” is the be-all and end-all. Surely there are records of those calls–unless they were using tin cans on the ends of strings.
aaaaiiiieee, yes, “tin cans on strings.” Otherwise known as “burner phones.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-white-house-phone-log-gap_n_6242ec1be4b0d7ac3d519ec7
Now he’s filed suit against Hillary Clinton over the election he won:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/24/trump-sues-hillary-clinton-others-over-2016-election-he-won/
“Look! Over there!! A Hillary witch!!!” Never mind those phone records, get the Hillary witch.
No idea what a burner phone is…
Not to mention John Bolton has said he heard Trump talking about burner phones.