Remembering the classics
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What would a impeachable Republican presidential scandal be without this?
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.
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 Jan. 6 attack.
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.)
There was once a time when some Republican public officials thought that obstructing justice to prevent discovery of felonious conduct much less serious than trying to steal an election was actually bad, even if a Republican did it. True story! 1973 might as well be 1273.
"The President appears to have used an unsecured burner phone for over seven hours while in the White House in the midst of an attempted insurrection, the goal of which was to unlawfully overturn the result of the democratic election removing him from power."
"But her e-mails."— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) March 29, 2022