Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) mentioned lawmakers on the Jan. 6 Home choose committee are deeply within the 7-hour hole in former President Donald Trump’s White Home telephone logs on the day of the Capitol riot, saying it appears to be “suspiciously tailor-made” to the interval when the unprecedented assault came about.
Raskin, who’s a member of the panel, informed CBS Information’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that lawmakers had been capable of piece collectively some particulars about who Trump spoke with that day, however had been nonetheless lacking key data.
“It’s a really uncommon factor for us to search out, that abruptly the whole lot goes darkish for a 7-hour interval by way of monitoring the actions and the conversations of the president,” Raskin mentioned.
“We're conscious of different telephone calls that came about throughout that point that included the president. However we've got no complete, fine-grained, the portrait of what was happening throughout that interval,” he added. “And that’s, clearly, of intense curiosity to us.”
When “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan requested if the shortage of information may very well be linked to broader incompetence throughout the White Home throughout Trump’s tenure, Raskin mentioned the committee was taking that into consideration.
“It does appear to be the gaps are suspiciously tailor-made to the guts of the occasions,” Raskin mentioned, “however we’re checking that out.”
Final week, Axios reported that Trump’s government assistant Molly Michael was absent for many of Jan. 6, 2021. Her duties included maintaining notes on Trump’s scheduled conferences and calls.
Though Trump tried to claim government privilege in an effort to withhold official paperwork from Jan. 6 panel, President Joe Biden rejected these efforts and the Nationwide Archives turned over the information earlier this yr.
The Washington Publish and CBS Information first reported final month that the information despatched to the choose committee confirmed the 7 hour and 37 minute hole on Jan. 6, 2021, which spanned from 11:17 a.m. till 6:54 p.m. Round 1 p.m., a pro-Trump mob, stirred by the president’s claims of a stolen election, stormed the U.S. Capitol.
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