Investigators Find Gaps in White House Logs of Trump's Jan. 6 Calls

[L. Coyote]

Source: NY Times

Sparse call records are the latest obstacle facing the House panel, which is trying to document what President Trump was doing during the attack on Congress.

WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has discovered gaps in official White House telephone logs from the day of the riot, finding few records of calls by President Donald J. Trump from critical hours when investigators know that he was making them.

Investigators have not uncovered evidence that any official records were tampered with or deleted, and it is well known that Mr. Trump used his personal cellphone, and those of his aides, routinely to talk with aides, congressional allies and outside confidants.

But the sparse call records are the latest major obstacle to the panel’s central mission: recreating what Mr. Trump was doing behind closed doors during crucial moments of the assault on Congress by a mob of his supporters.

The panel is still awaiting additional material from the National Archives and Records Administration, which keeps the official White House logs

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/10/us/politics/jan-6-trump-calls.html

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It's the cover-up, stupid. Here we go again, so Nixonian.

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[milestogo]

1. Flushed.

[gab13by13]

2. Look for the area code for Moscow in the cloud.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. House Oversight asks Archives for information about Trump's handling of White House records

TFG appears to have doctored or destroyed Presidential records. I note that the House Oversight committee is looking at the destruction of records. We can add this to the list of matters to be investigated.

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The chairwoman of the House Oversight Committee is moving quickly on her promise to investigate Donald Trump’s handling of White House records on the heels of revelations that 15 boxes of materials were recovered from the former president’s Mar-a-Lago residence.

In a letter sent Wednesday to Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero, Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) requested information “to examine the extent and impact” of Trump’s apparent violations of the Presidential Records Act, which requires the preservation of memos, letters, notes, emails, faxes and other written communications related to a president’s official duties.

The letter, provided to The Washington Post, asked for a detailed inventory of the contents of the recovered boxes, a description of records that Trump “destroyed or attempted to destroy” without the approval of the Archives, and whether the contents are undergoing a review to determine if they contain classified information. Maloney also asked whether "the Archivist has notified the Attorney General that former President Trump removed presidential records from the White House.”

“Removing or concealing government records is a criminal offense punishable by up to three years in prison,” Maloney wrote. “Former National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, for example, was prosecuted for taking classified documents from NARA. Former President Trump and his senior advisors must also be held accountable for any violations of the law.”

[pandr32]

4. Gawd! Didn't HC get enormous backlash for using a private phone and server?

IT seems years ago now because of all we've endured since, but I seem to remember people howling about it. Even some on the left claimed she should have known better--she was careless. So...perfection was expected from her.

" it is well known that Mr. Trump used his personal cellphone, and those of his aides, routinely to talk with aides, congressional allies and outside confidants."

Where is the outrage? I don't hear a peep except from those of us who new TFG was a treason weasel.

[efhmc]

12. Good greif. she is a nonpenised human. Her jobs are to kowtow to the other group and

produce more of them.

[pandr32]

21. Not only that, but she was on the level.

Can't have that!

[Marthe48]

5. Really, did we doubt for a minute

traitor wouldn't try to cover his trail of sedition and treason?

Unfortunately, there are way too many people involved in this attempted takeover of the U.S. It is not a secret that traitor tried to marshall the traitorous bastards among people living in this country. it is a shame that so many people hate the country that had given them so much more than they deserve.

I think that everyone who helped in anyway, from believing traitor's lies, to spreading them, to attacking the Capital, to encouraging people to deny the results of the election, to forging documents, to working from within the government to betray us should be deported. I don't care where. Just get them off our land. If that isn't feasible, make every single person who harbored ill-will toward this country sign a loyalty oath. Until they do, they enjoy no rights of American citizenship. I guess putin is exempted from the last.

By the way, does anyone else think flynn looks like mcveigh, only old?

[Miguelito Loveless]

6. Subpoena his personal phone records

since there is more than enough evidence he used his personal phone for presidential business.

[Jilly_in_VA]

7. It's the ghost of Rose Mary Woods, I tell ya!

She still haunts the place.........

[Botany]

8. Not to worry because if any of those calls went to the rioters in and around the Capitol on 1/6/21..

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.... "they" already have much of that information.

[L. Coyote]

28. The Capitol has its own cellular phone system, so they possess all the logs.

Due to the tunnels and other dead zones, they created a cellular system that worked anywhere. Doubtless, they were gathering call info in real time as this happened.

[Botany]

34. I think "they" have the time of the call, the length of the call, and the exact location of where...

... the caller was when he or she made the call. They might also have any texts, videos, emails, and
the phone # of where the call went to and so if that call went to the White House or some burner phone
they the FBI has that information.

[L. Coyote]

35. Yes, phone numbers on both ends. A fair assumption is data collection began as the mob attacked

the barricades, sweeping up every iota of information. Then the laborious process of getting to use that information, seeking the warrants, began.

[Botany]

37. I think they already know who was calling who.

And even if people used burner phones they will have those #s and they can trace
who sold the phone and good chance they will have pictures from video feeds at
the stores that sold the phones for cash.

[L. Coyote]

38. And every phone number will be investigated to see if the person appears in any photos.

The total amount of available evidence is mind numbing.

[Botany]

39. As the attempted violent coup of 1/6/21 was going on TFG's lawyer told him that he should expect ..

... be arrested. (or something like that) After that TFG called off the dogs.

I might be wrong but as Trump was watching the boodshed and violence on TV on 1/6/21 he or his people
were talking to the people inside the US Capitol.

[L. Coyote]

40. #FailedCoupGuy's arerest is now just a matter of time. Drip, drip is now the daily deluge.

Any morning now we should wake up to the largest single DoJ operation in US history.

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[gab13by13]

9. Enough bs that this isn't a crime,

first of all he removed classified documents, secondly, he did this to obstruct justice. Let's get moving DOJ.

[Qutzupalotl]

10. Burner phones?

Just a thought. We know a few key players such as Jr. and Kushner were using them. Suppose TFG was using one too…is that why Jr. couldn't reach his father on Jan. 6, and had to ask that a message be relayed?

[L. Coyote]

11. The insurrection organizers were using burner phones, talking to Trump family.

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[Botany]

13. So Mr. Kremer are you ready to spend 20 years in prison for the Trump family?

[Bengus81]

14. Fat Nixon once again...........

[Emile]

15. The gaps just happens to be on January 6!

[TeamProg]

16. Sandy Berger RETURNED ALL of the documents that he 'took home to study before a hearing on 911'..

Trump will not be able to return destroyed or flushed documents.

LOCK HIM UP !!

[Vinca]

17. Check with the White House plumber and see what was retrieved that day.

[TeamProg]

20. Funny! .. echoes of Watergate__________ n/t

[oldsoftie]

18. Anyone here surprised? Anyone? ANYONE?

[TeamProg]

19. It's obstruction of justice to attempt to hide White House activity.

LOCK HIM UP !!

[nitpicker]

32. He'll probably not get a jail diet behind bars

Not hominy for breakfast, PB&J for lunch, baloney for dinner.

[Mr. Ected]

22. With the evidence mounting, I think DOJ only has one major question left to answer:

Hanging or Firing Squad?

[Emile]

27. +1

[Dan]

29. Now thinking outside the box...

If Trump is charged (federal charges), since as president he was acting as Commander in Chief, then why can’t the military charge him? Let him face a military tribunal - don’t have to worry about MAGA types - and a military court can give him the death penalty.

[nitpicker]

30. Sorry, the most they could charge him with on that is obstructing a potential investigation

https://www.justsecurity.org/73265/destroying-federal-documents-during-a-presidential-transition-is-a-federal-crime/

With a maximum penalty of 20 years.

[Emile]

42. 20 years sounds about right!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. No surprise really.

[onecaliberal]

24. I'm sure there is a great explanation. He didn't mean to do anything wrong.

[Baitball Blogger]

25. There's always a record of phone calls on the main server of the phone co. right?

I so want to know there's a permanent record, somewhere.

[ificandream]

26. Rosemary Woods lives ...

[Emile]

33. From the Nixon era?

[ificandream]

43. Bingo!!

[NHvet]

31. 18 minutes of missing tape

sent some of Nixon's staff to jail. Lets hope history repeats itself.

[L. Coyote]

36. Nixon's Attorney General went to jail. Let's hope that repeats too.

The big mistake of Watergate was allowing Nixon to get away scott free.

[Martin68]

41. I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!

[ck4829]

44. K&R