Article 5XS7P What is Trump hiding? The Capitol riot-sized hole in White House call log

What is Trump hiding? The Capitol riot-sized hole in White House call log

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Ed Pilkington
from US news | The Guardian on (#5XS7P)

A mysterious gap of 7 hours 37 minutes in phone records for 6 January 2021 coincides with the insurrection in Washington DC

At 2.26pm on 6 January last year, Donald Trump picked up a White House phone and placed a call to Mike Lee, the Republican senator from Utah. The communication came at a very significant moment.

Thirty-seven minutes earlier, a riot had been declared by Washington DC police. Minutes after that the then vice-president, Mike Pence, was rushed out of the Senate chamber, where he had been presiding over Congress's certification of Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 election, and put into hiding.

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