Jan. 6 Committee Probes Long Gap in Trump Phone Logs
Summary from the AllSides News Team
The House's January 6 Committee probing the Capitol riot is investigating a 7-hour, 37-minute phone gap in the White House call logs from that day.
Phone records that were turned over to the Committee are missing the hours between 11:17am ET and 6:54pm ET from Jan. 6, 2021, which includes the time that the Capitol riot took place. The committee is considering the possibility that former President Donald Trump was using a different phone, or that someone is suppressing the release of the full call logs. Trump has said that he is not familiar with "burner phones", and that he assumed any and all of his calls were recorded and preserved. Meanwhile, the committee has recommended that the House cite former Trump aides Daniel Scavino Jr. and Peter Navarro for criminal contempt of Congress. The House created the January 6 committee last year almost entirely along party lines.
The news was covered more prominently by left- and center-rated sources, some of which implied that the missing records suggest that Trump committed a crime.
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Jan. 6 Committee Probes Trump Phone-Logs Gap
The House select committee investigating the events surrounding Jan. 6, 2021, is trying to fill in an hourslong gap in White House call logs on the day a pro-Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol, lawmakers said.
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Jan. 6 committee probing 7.5 hour gap in White House phone logs
The House Jan. 6 committee is investigating more than seven-and-a-half hours of missing White House phone logs during the Capitol riot last year.
Fox News confirmed Tuesday that the Jan. 6 committee is probing a gap of seven hours and 37 minutes in White House phone logs of President Trump’s phone calls on Jan. 6, 2021.
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