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White House logs show over 7-hr gap in Trump calls on Jan. 6 -report -Breaking

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO. A crowd of Trump supporters climbed through the window to storm Washington’s U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photograph

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – White House records reveal a more than seven-hour gap in ex-President Donald Trump’s phone calls on Jan. 6, 2021. This was Tuesday, CBS and The Washington Post reported.

According to news sources, logs handed to the House panel to investigate the attack did not show any calls made to Trump or his associates between 11:17 and 6:54. Trump’s supporters violently protested at Capitol during the time that lawmakers were about to declare Trump’s defeat in 2020.

The Post and CBS reported that Trump had spoken to at most eight phone numbers before and after the gap, according to the 11-page records.

Trump and representatives of the committee could not immediately be reached to comment on the report.

A lot of public reporting also mentions numerous conversations Trump had Jan. 6, with allies, and legislators. This led lawmakers to inquire whether Trump used unofficial back channels that day, according to the report, which cited two sources familiar with congressional investigations.

Kevin McCarthy, House leader last year, described talking with his Republican counterpart during the rioting. He said he encouraged the president to summon his supporters and admit defeat.

“I was very clear with the president when I called him,” McCarthy told CBS at the time. McCarthy said that the president must stop doing this and should go before the American people to tell them.

The New York Times reported that on Tuesday, congressional investigators and federal prosecutors focused on Trump’s Dec. 19, 2020 Tweet. In it, he asked supporters to travel to Washington to witness his “wild” speech.

Monday’s House panel unanimously voted in favor of “contempt” of Congress charges against Peter Navarro and Daniel Scavino. Scavino was a Trump deputy chief staff officer.

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