Trump White House phone did not record calls for 7 hours during Capitol raid, press says | World
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White House records show an unexplained gap of more than seven hours in the former president’s phone calls. Donald Trump On the day of the attack on the Capitol weOn January 6, 2021, The Washington Post and CBS reported on Tuesday (29).
Records turned over to the House committee investigating the attack showed no calls from Trump between 11:17 a.m. and 6:54 p.m.
The gap covers the period when the then president’s supporters attacked Capitol Hill as lawmakers gathered to certify Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election.
The Washington Post and CBS reported that 11 pages of records delivered to lawmakers showed Trump spoke to at least eight people by phone before the break and 11 afterward.
The US Capitol raid coincides with one year
A spokesman for the House committee investigating the Capitol invasion declined to comment.
A Trump spokesman said the former president had nothing to do with the records and assumed all phone calls had been recorded and preserved.
Public reports also cited several of Trump’s January 6 conversations with allies and lawmakers.
This prompted investigators to examine whether he communicated that day through informal channels or a disposable phone, the report said, citing two people familiar with the congressional investigation.
“I have no idea what a disposable phone is,” Trump said in a statement.
At least seven deaths have been linked to the attack on the US Congress by thousands of Trump supporters.
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