{"id":3998,"date":"2022-04-04T19:08:15","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T19:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/gap-in-trump-call-logs-on-jan-6-suspiciously-tailored-raskin-says-the-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2022-04-04T19:08:15","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T19:08:15","slug":"gap-in-trump-call-logs-on-jan-6-suspiciously-tailored-raskin-says-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/04\/gap-in-trump-call-logs-on-jan-6-suspiciously-tailored-raskin-says-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Gap in Trump call logs on Jan. 6 'suspiciously tailored,' Raskin says – The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

The gap in phone logs in the official White House records on Jan. 6, 2021, is of \u201cintense interest\u201d to the House select committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Jamie B. Raskin said Sunday.
In an interview on CBS News\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation,\u201d Raskin (D-Md.) noted that a 7\u00bd-hour gap in the phone logs for President Donald Trump\u2019s communications that day<\/a> <\/b>covers the period when the Capitol assault was taking place.
Raskin said he and other <\/b>Jan. 6 committee members have been able to piece together some of Trump\u2019s activities during that time frame based on other people\u2019s interviews and depositions, but holes <\/b>remain.
\u201cIt\u2019s a very unusual thing for us to find that suddenly everything goes dark for a seven-hour period in terms of tracking the movements and the conversations of the president,\u201d Raskin said.
When asked if the gap could possibly be due to incompetence rather than conspiracy, Raskin said the committee was taking that into account. He added, however, that \u201cthe gaps are suspiciously tailored to the heart of the events\u201d of Jan. 6, including when several lawmakers later said they were pleading with Trump to intervene.
Raskin noted that the committee was aware that the president took part in calls during that time, \u201cbut we have no comprehensive, fine-grained portrait of what was going on during that period, and that\u2019s obviously of intense interest to us.\u201d
The bipartisan Jan. 6 panel is investigating the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob<\/a> that tried to stop the confirmation of Joe Biden\u2019s electoral college win. The attack led to five deaths and left some 140 members of law enforcement injured.
Trump has tried to assert executive privilege to withhold documents from the committee<\/a>, which last year ordered the former president to provide records of all his actions and activities on Jan. 6. President Biden has rejected Trump\u2019s claims of executive privilege<\/a>.
Earlier this year, the National Archives and Records Administration turned over to the committee 11 pages of White House records from that day, including the president\u2019s official daily diary and the White House switchboard call logs.
As first reported by The Washington Post and CBS News<\/a>, those records did not include any documentation of calls placed to or by Trump from 11:17 a.m. to 6:54 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021.
Raskin added that the committee\u2019s mission is to get \u201ca complete picture\u201d of everything that took place on Jan. 6, as well as what needs to be done \u201cto fortify democratic institutions and processes against future insurrections and coups and attempts to destabilize and overthrow our elections.\u201d
Raskin said he hoped the committee would be able to begin holding long-delayed public hearings in May and was looking for connections between the violent insurrection at the Capitol and what he called the \u201cattempt at an inside coup\u201d orchestrated by Trump against the Constitution.
\u201cI do feel confident we\u2019re going to be able to tell that story,\u201d Raskin said, adding, \u201cObviously, we\u2019re up against a lot of obstruction now.\u201d
Last week, the committee voted to hold two more former Trump aides<\/a> \u2014 former trade and manufacturing director Peter Navarro and former communications chief Daniel Scavino Jr. \u2014 in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with the committee\u2019s subpoenas. Raskin said the <\/b>House probably would vote this week on whether to refer Navarro and Scavino to the Justice Department for prosecution.
Like Trump and a raft of other former aides, Navarro and Scavino have tried to claim they are protected by executive privilege and that the subpoenas were an overreach by the committee. They are among the latest in high-profile Trump White House officials facing repercussions for refusing to comply with the Jan. 6 committee\u2019s subpoenas.
Last year, former Trump adviser Stephen K. Bannon was indicted on charges of contempt of Congress<\/a>, which prompted warnings from some Republicans<\/a> of \u201cpayback\u201d that they could do the same to Democrats if they retake control of the House majority in November.
Mark Meadows, a former chief of staff in the Trump White House, also refused to cooperate with the committee, leading to the House voting to hold him in contempt<\/a> of Congress as well in December.
Separately, a federal judge ruled last week that Trump \u201cmore likely than not\u201d committed federal crimes<\/a> in attempting to stop the confirmation of Biden\u2019s electoral college win.
Asked about the judge\u2019s comments Sunday, Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), who has defended Trump frequently and who voted to acquit Trump during his impeachment trials, was noncommittal.
\u201cWell, federal judges say a lot of things and we\u2019ll see how that comes through the process,\u201d Blunt said on ABC News\u2019s \u201cThis Week.\u201d<\/a> \u201cI think the Justice Department has a job to do and they should do it and people who were involved in the planning or execution of illegal activities on Jan. 6 should be prosecuted.\u201d
Bob Woodward and Robert Costa contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n

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The gap in phone logs in the official White House records on Jan. 6, 2021, is of \u201cintense interest\u201d to the House select committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Jamie B. Raskin said Sunday.In an interview on CBS News\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation,\u201d Raskin (D-Md.) noted that a 7\u00bd-hour gap in the phone […]<\/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\/3998"}],"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=3998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}