Three big takeaways from Trump's missing Jan. 6 phone logs

[Nevilledog]

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Note: The missing Trump phone logs should prompt the 1/6 committee to pursue phone records of co-conspirators who talked to him that day. A close look at the situation shows the committee may already have some of them. That'll confirm what's been omitted:

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Opinion | Three big takeaways from Trump’s missing Jan. 6 phone logs
New revelations strengthen the case for the Jan. 6 committee to get more aggressive.
7:51 AM · Mar 29, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/29/trump-missing-phone-logs-key-takeaways/

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In another bid for the “Worse than Watergate” files, it turns out there is a seven-hour gap in Donald Trump’s phone logs on the day of the insurrection attempt. According to documents obtained by The Post and CBS News, there is no record of then-President Trump’s calls on Jan. 6, 2021, from just after 11 a.m. to shortly before 7 p.m.

That means there’s a big black hole in the record when it comes to Trump’s conversations throughout the period during which the mob assaulted the U.S. Capitol and violence raged over several hours.

The documents, which were turned over to the House select committee examining Jan. 6, do show that Trump had many calls before 11 a.m. and after 6 p.m. that were apparently related to the coup effort. That suggests Trump held many calls related to the insurrection between those two times that are not officially accounted for.

Here are three big takeaways:

The non-cooperation of Trump’s allies makes this report worse.

We already know Trump spoke to many key players by phone while the violence unfolded, thanks to dogged reporting and the Jan. 6 committee’s investigation thus far.

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[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

1. K & R Nixon's missing minutes times 23.

[grumpyduck]

2. My one takeaway:

He's guilty as hell.

[wnylib]

6. Quite obvious, isn't it?

What President would be off his phone throughout an attack on the Capitol building?

[Stuart G]

10. Your four words say it all, Quote, "He's guilty as hell"

Repeat: "He's guilty as hell"
"He's guilty as hell"
"He's guilty as hell"
"He's guilty as hell"
"He's guilty as hell"
"He's guilty as hell"
"He's guilty as hell"
"He's guilty as hell"
"He's guilty as hell"
"He's guilty as hell"
"He's guilty as hell"

Is 11 enough?.[...Just asking.?...

[FailureToCommunicate]

17. Baker's dozen...

"He's guilty as hell"
"He's guilty as hell"

[Emile]

3. Bet Jim Jordan is relieved!

[Trailrider1951]

12. Kevin McCarthy, too (R-Asshole)

[MyOwnPeace]

4. Time for the DOJ

to act on those that the J6 Committee recommended for contempt of congress charges.
Gotta' keep adding heat - show movement.
Who knows what songbird will step up and present a recital of wrong-doings!

[Achilleaze]

23. Yes. Today is a good day.

[ashredux]

5. This "dumpster" Is beyond just smelling bad, it's a three alarm fire 🔥

[ultralite001]

7. Go, Jamie Raskin...

“He [the RTumpster] was using the leverage of the violent insurrection to keep the inside political coup against Pence going,” Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the Jan. 6 committee, told me.

So the refusal of participation from key players who spoke to Trump during that period — and could illuminate his potential understanding of the violence as a weapon to complete the procedural coup — is the other piece of the coverup. It makes the missing phone logs look even worse.

[L. Coyote]

29. Raskin understands.

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How long does it take for #FailedCoupGuy to fail at a coup?

Seven hours and 37 minutes.

[ultralite001]

31. Thank you, LC...

That is all...

[DallasNE]

8. Shouldn't The Phone Company

Have the meta data on those phone calls during those 7 1/2 hours? Or do they not have the data on secure lines?

Someone ordered those phone logs to be destroyed. Someone delivered those phone logs to a third party that destroyed those phone logs. 3 people right there that heed to head straight to jail. Just following orders is no excuse. Plus, there is security that failed to keep those records secure, so they need to be held accountable as well.

How many of those civil servants are still on the job?

[Evolve Dammit]

11. Yes they should

[calimary]

20. I would hope so

unless some trumper(s) got to them first.

[Joinfortmill]

9. Satan, time to come get your man, Trump.

[2naSalit]

13. NSA should have copies.

Shouldn't they?

[Marthe48]

14. Looks like traitor will have the biggest gap

hunt the traitors down, charge them, present all of this evidence, and let justice take its course.

No one is above the law. No one.

[Thunderbeast]

15. Some of us (of a certain age) have seen this before...

The Rosemary Woods Stretch.


https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alamy.com%2Fstock-photo-rosemary-woods-president-nixons-personal-secretary-demonstrating-the-87520867.html&psig=AOvVaw3pD2wpg9yykDEK9MffbPNz&ust=1648665760338000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAsQjRxqFwoTCOCM0Nv86_YCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD

[BigmanPigman]

16. Finally, something the general public can connect to Nixon

Everyone knows about Nixon's tapes. Maybe this will get people to wake up and say "that's what Nixon did" and realize this is seriously bad for tRump.

[Stuart G]

18. A Thought That Comes & Goes in My Mind: "If You Think You Have Seen It All, There Is Always More."

[L. Coyote]

30. That was every day last week!

The revelations are coming fast now and the shift to "coup" rhetoric is set in stone finally.

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[spanone]

19. Just like those 15 boxes of Classified Records tfg took to Mar a lardo...

another crime awaiting punishment

[Grasswire2]

22. I'm wondering if TFG offered them to Putin today in exchange for Hunter dirt.

He would do that.

[jalan48]

21. It's another in a line of big deals. The question is, what can be done about it?

[MyOwnPeace]

26. I'm sorry, but

the question is not "What can be done?" but rather: What WILL be done?

[jalan48]

27. Yes, a better question to ask.

[Stuart G]

28. ...That is not up to me & you...."Say it ain't so"...Joe ...YES IT IS UP TO JOE..WHAT A WAY TO GO!!!

[mnmoderatedem]

24. wouldn't the WH phone logs include incoming calls?

of course all the outgoing calls would be on burner phones but do the logs not show any incoming calls? There's zero chance no incoming calls came in during the 7.5 hours in question. Wouldn't a lack of incoming calls in the logs indicate the logs were illegally altered?

[Deminpenn]

25. At least some of the gap can be explained by

Trump going and coming for his speech at the rally. 11AM would be about right for Trump leaving for the stage. I doubt there were many calls from then until he returned to the WH. More interesting will be the calls made from when he arrived back at the WH and 6:45 when the next call is logged in.

I think the plotting all happened before Trump left the WH on January 6th, then after he returned to the WH, it was watching it all play out. The only thing to discover is the WH interaction with DoD regarding deployment of the National Guard.