{"id":3710,"date":"2022-04-02T12:26:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T12:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/trump-told-people-to-hang-up-and-call-him-on-his-cell-in-the-white-house-report-business-insider\/"},"modified":"2022-04-02T12:26:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T12:26:54","slug":"trump-told-people-to-hang-up-and-call-him-on-his-cell-in-the-white-house-report-business-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/02\/trump-told-people-to-hang-up-and-call-him-on-his-cell-in-the-white-house-report-business-insider\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump told people to hang up and call him on his cell in the White House: report &#8211; Business Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid confusion over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/who-trump-spoke-to-on-the-phone-on-day-of-january-6-riots-timeline-2022-3\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\">seven-hour gap<\/a> in the White House phone logs on the day of the January 6 insurrection, a new report from CNN sheds light on how President Donald Trump would move calls to his cellphone.<br \/>Although White House officials are supposed to use secure lines of communication, Trump made a habit of rejecting the in-house phone system in favor of his cellphone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/31\/politics\/mystery-call-gap-trump-jan-6-white-house-phone-logs\/index.html\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\">CNN<\/a> reported, citing people familiar with Trump&#8217;s phone behavior.<br \/>John Kelly, Trump&#8217;s chief of staff from July 2017 to January 2019, monitored the White House switchboard as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/348979-5-changes-john-kelly-has-made-in-the-white-house\/\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\">his efforts<\/a> to streamline communication and limit the number of outside voices trying to influence Trump&#8217;s opinion.<br \/>One of Kelly&#8217;s goals was to get Trump to stop using his cell so much, but CNN&#8217;s sources said his switchboard sleuthing had the opposite effect.<br \/>&#8220;Trump hated people knowing who he spoke to, including from the residence at night when they went through the switchboard,&#8221; a former Trump official told CNN. So he would tell those who called him on a White House landline to hang up and call him back on his cellphone, CNN reported.<br \/>In the context of the missing January 6 phone logs, his use of a cellphone may partially explain why calls corroborated by witnesses \u2014 such as one to Vice President Mike Pence from the Oval Office that morning \u2014 didn&#8217;t show up.&nbsp;<br \/>Trump used the switchboard while in the White House residence, but he rarely used it while in the Oval Office, CNN reported, citing people familiar with Trump&#8217;s phone usage. He also had staffers place calls for him on various landlines and mobile phones, rather than going through the switchboard.<br \/>Clashes over Trump&#8217;s cellphone use were a feature of the early stages of his presidency, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/05\/21\/trump-phone-security-risk-hackers-601903\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\">2018 Politico report<\/a> describing how he used a phone without any encryption or security features to hide his calls from foreign intelligence agencies.<br \/>                           Keep reading                         <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/trump-john-kelly-phone-calls-switchboard-log-white-house-2022-4\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid confusion over a seven-hour gap in the White House phone logs on the day of the January 6 insurrection, a new report from CNN sheds light on how President Donald Trump would move calls to his cellphone.Although White House officials are supposed to use secure lines of communication, Trump made a habit of rejecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}