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The select committee of the House of Representatives that investigates the assault on the Capitol on January 6 of last year, said to have discovered that there are some gaps in the official White House phone records from that day.
Legislators found few records of calls made by former President Donald Trump, in the critical hours of that day , despite the fact that the investigators determined direct testimonies from related people that the president was making those calls.
Although the investigators have not concluded that there was any type of manipulation or deletion of official records, they stressed that it was public knowledge that Trump used to use his personal cell phone (breaking security regulations) and sometimes the cell phones of his assistants or relatives to communicate with allies in The congress.
This lack of telephone records is one more problem for the panel’s mission to determine what the former president was doing during the rebellion of January 6 by his followers.
Likewise, the select committee asked telecommunications companies for phone records of people in Trump’s inner circle like his son, Eric, and Kimberly Guilfoyle, the fiancée of Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr.
At the beginning of his government, Trump used Keith’s cell phone Schiller, his personal bodyguard turned director of Oval Office operations.
That habit made that under his administration, the call logs of the White House frequently left incomplete , reported The New York Times.
In this regard, on the morning of January 6 Trump spoke by telephone with his Vice President, Mike Pence, and with Republican legislators whom he pressured to annul the results of the Electoral College that gave the current president, Joe Biden, as the winner.
The panel of legislators determined that Trump mistakenly called Senator Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah thinking it was the number of Senator Tommy Tuberville, a Republican from Alabama.
Lee gave the cell phone to Tuberville, who said that spoke to the former president for less than 10 minutes just as Trump supporters were forcing their way into the Capitol.
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