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Committee finds gaps in former U.S. president's call records from 11:17 a.m. to 6:54 p.m., when lawmakers were urgently trying to get him to quell the mob.

Jordan has not said precisely when that call, or calls, occurred. Article content The logs, which were turned over to the Jan. 6 committee earlier this year, do show calls before and after that period. Article content Article content Article content

Former President Donald Trump said Russian leader Vladimir Putin should “release” information on an alleged business deal involving Hunter Biden, ...

“I wasn’t then, nor am I now, articulating a policy change,” Biden said. “I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer.”

Former President Trump speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at The Rosen Shingle Creek, on Feb. 26, 2022, in Orlando, Florida. Joe ...

Trump has repeatedly refused to condemn Putin throughout the invasion. It’s also not the first time Trump has called on a foreign power to dig up dirt on the Bidens. Trump in 2018 attempted to extort Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into releasing damaging information on the family. The quid-pro-quo led to Trump’s first impeachment that December. The Senate report to which Trump is referring is a partisan report Republicans released in 2020. The soon-to-be president in a July 2016 news conference called on Russia, “if you’re listening,” to “find the 30,000 emails that are missing” from Clinton’s email server. Donald Trump famously called on Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s emails ahead of the 2016 election.

The committee investigating the Capitol riots had sought to obtain the presidential records.

"The Department of Justice has a duty to act on this referral and others that we have sent," Congressman Adam Schiff, a member of the committee, said. On Monday night, the committee voted to hold two more close Trump associates, communications aide Dan Scavino and trade advisor Peter Navarro, in contempt. The gap may raise concerns that records of presidential contacts during key moments - as US Capitol police were in a melee with Trump supporters and Secret Service officers were evacuating Mr Pence from the Senate chamber - have been withheld or destroyed. The committee is now considering whether to call her to testify. Members of the congressional committee also called on the justice department to prosecute witnesses who were not co-operating with the investigation. Only Mr Bannon has faced criminal charges so far, however.

The White House records submitted to the House show a gap in phone logs of calls placed to or by Trump from 11:17 a.m. to 6:54 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021.

The committee is also scrutinizing whether it received the full log from that day. And we just have to find them." He said the committee would see "if we can piece it together." The gap also stands in stark contrast to the extensive public reporting about phone conversations he had with allies during the attack. Thompson also said that the committee does not yet have any evidence that there were calls the president had made or received in that time period, but "if the Capitol of the United States is being overrun, somebody made some calls. "Obviously, there is not a second in the day that the president of the United States is not on record somewhere," Thompson told CBS News on Tuesday after a White House bill signing event.

Former President Donald Trump in a new interview called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release information regarding alleged dealings between ...

Hunter Biden revealed in 2020 that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Delaware was investigating his tax affairs. “She gave him $3.5 million so now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. A White House spokesperson declined to comment on Trump’s remarks.

In a new interview published Tuesday, former President Donald Trump called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release any damaging information he has ...

Hunter Biden has denied wrongdoing and says he'll be cleared when the criminal probe is over. It's not clear that any material exists, or if the Kremlin has access to it. I think we should know that answer."

The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol has identified a roughly 8-hour gap in official White House records of then-President ...

The White House log does show calls Trump made before that time period, as he was preparing to speak at the rally. Tuberville has said he spoke to the president while the Senate was being evacuated. He spoke to Vice President Mike Pence between 11 a.m. and 11:30, according to a person familiar with that conversation, as he had been lobbying Pence publicly and privately to object while presiding over the certification. Trump responded that the rioters must be "more upset about the election than you are," according to Herrera Beutler. He also spoke with several GOP members of the House and Senate as his allies in Congress were preparing to challenge the official vote count. While hundreds of people have cooperated with the probe, in some cases the panel has been hampered by Trump's assertions of executive privilege over material and interviews. The panel issued a broad records preservation order in August to almost three dozen telecommunications and social media companies, demanding that the companies save communications for several hundred people in case Congress decided to issue subpoenas for them. The gap extends from a little after 11 a.m. to about 7 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021, and involves White House phone calls, according to one of the people. The missing records raise questions of whether Trump purposefully circumvented official channels to avoid records. He often bypassed the White House switchboard, placing calls directly, according to a former aide who requested anonymity to discuss the private calls. But it does not mean the panel is in the dark about what Trump was doing during that time. Trump was known to use other people’s cell phones to make calls, as well as his own.

The former president's Republican supporters are not content to let the past stay in the past, Edward Keenan writes.

Carter says that the Jan. 6 crisis was caused by an attempted coup that could have forever ended the tradition of a democratic and peaceful transfer of power in the U.S. “If the country does not commit to investigating and pursuing accountability for those responsible, the court fears Jan. 6 will repeat itself.” Judge David O. Carter ruled Monday that emails from legal scholar John Eastman — a Trump adviser who provided the legal strategy to attempt to block the election certification in Congress on Jan. 6 — should be turned over to the committee. “The illegality of the plan was obvious,” he wrote. “America must not allow what happened on that day to be minimized and cannot accept as normal these threats to our democracy,” they wrote. Then came the revelation Tuesday that the White House call logs turned over to the Jan. 6 committee have a seven-hour gap during the period the Capitol was under assault — a period when, from prior reporting, we know Trump was active in phone conversations. The Jan. 6 committee has conducted most of its business behind closed doors. In the messages, Thomas repeated extreme and bizarre conspiracy theories, indicated she was working to overturn the election results and urged Trump’s team to fight. The congressional committee that’s charged with investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection attempt and seeking a measure of accountability for it. “Let’s just get back to normal” is by now a familiar approach to the pandemic. Last week, Trump withdrew his endorsement of Mo Brooks, a longtime supporter who is seeking the Republican nomination in his state’s upcoming Senate election, because Brooks acknowledged that Joe Biden was the elected president. But more than a year after the insurrectionist riot, he’s still trying to overturn the 2020 election the way he attempted to back then.

Former President Trump called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release dirt on President Biden's son Hunter Biden during an interview published ...

We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. During the 2016 election, he called for Russia to release emails from former Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s private email server. That’s a lot of money,” Trump told John Solomon and Amanda Head on the “Just the News” show on Real America’s Voice network.

What's worse than inciting a violent coup? Donald Trump apparently doesn't want us to know.

So it would be nice to know exactly who he was talking to while the Capitol was under siege, and what he was advocating for. Trump also spoke to Rudy Giuliani that morning, as well as senior adviser Stephen Miller, from 9:52 a.m. to 10:18 a.m. That night, according to The Post, the president again talked to Bannon, adviser Jason Miller, and White House counsel Pat Cipollone. Two days after the riot, CNN reported that Trump had tried to call Senator Tommy Tuberville to urge him, amid the chaos, to delay the certification of the Electoral votes, but accidentally called Senator Mike Lee, who passed Tuberville the phone. Kushner formed that take on the law after his own father, Charles Kushner, went to prison for retaliating against his brother-in-law for cooperating with the feds against him, by setting the guy up with a sex worker, filming the encounter, and then sending the tape to his own sister.) Are there other, even worse things the then president did or said that haven’t even come out yet and that he and his allies really, really don’t want people to find out about? (Let’s also not forget the recent news of Trump’s extensive shredding habit.) According to reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, the House select panel “is now investigating whether Trump communicated that day through backchannels, phones of aides or personal disposable phones, known as ‘burner phones,’ according to two people with knowledge of the probe.” (On Monday, Trump claimed in a statement, “I have no idea what a burner phone is, to the best of my knowledge I have never even heard the term,” and while we believe he doesn’t know what a burner phone is, just like he doesn’t know how to pronounce the words chasm, peninsula, or internet, that doesn’t mean he’s never used one.) One lawmaker told The Post the panel is probing a “possible cover-up” of the official records, and we don’t want to alarm anyone, but given everything we know about Donald Trump and the people he surrounds himself with, a cover-up does not seem out of character. As the riot was unfolding, Trump, then the president of the United States, refused numerous pleas to stop the violence, including ones from his own flesh and blood.

Over the weekend, a photo of Donald Trump after he purportedly shot a hole-in-one circulated around the Internet. On Monday night, the former President put ...

It's an innocent form of exaggeration—and a very effective form of promotion." ," a history of presidents and golf. "It took place at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on the 7th hole, which was playing 181-yards into a slight wind," he added.

Former President Trump said he was not interested in becoming the Speaker if Republicans retake the House in the 2022 midterm elections.

We invite you to join the discussion on Facebook and Twitter. Trump has been pitched on running for the Speakership before. “No, I think that it’s not something I wanted.

The judge made the claim in civil case and it does not have any direct legal implications for the former president.

The Fulton County district attorney in Georgia is investigating efforts by Trump and his allies to overturn the election results there. Criminal cases in the US are decided on “proof beyond a reasonable doubt”, a higher standard. “If the country does not commit to investigating and pursuing accountability for those responsible, the Court fears January 6 will repeat itself.”

Trump said he has "no idea what a burner phone is" after report of 7-hour gap in White House call logs on Jan. 6, 2021.

UN: Over 4 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russian invasion began The Jan. 6 select committee is investigating whether a disposable "burner phone" was used, per the outlets. - UN: Over 4 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russian invasion began

One critical factor in proving Trump guilty of seditious conspiracy to overthrow the election is demonstrating his motivations for using force to disrupt the ...

Federal District Court Judge David O. Carter explains this well in his ruling this week that documents from Trump lawyer John Eastman were not protected by attorney-client privilege because Trump and Eastman likely conspired to commit a crime in their ludicrous plan to have the vice president upend the certification process. Trump’s willingness to use force as a last-ditch attempt to remain in power is evident in his own call to arms. As Carter writes, “Disagreeing with the law entitled President Trump to seek a remedy in court, not to disrupt a constitutionally-mandated process. A president does not let a mob rampage at the U.S. Capitol if he believes he is on constitutional footing to challenge an election and have actual evidence of voter fraud; he uses a mob when he is desperate to achieve his ends despite the law and the facts. One critical factor in proving Trump guilty of seditious conspiracy to overthrow the election is demonstrating his motivations for using force to disrupt the joint session of Congress tabulating the election results. Consider the significance of that finding.

Revelation from former national security adviser raises pressure on Trump as lawmakers investigate gaps in January 6 call logs.

Not true, according to Bolton. In an interview with the Post/CBS News, the former national security adviser said that he recalled Trump “using the term ‘burner phones’ in several discussions and that Trump was aware of its meaning”. Documents originally held by the National Archives and turned over to the committee earlier this year showed a gap in Trump’s phone calls spanning precisely the period when hundreds of his supporters stormed the Capitol building. Bolton’s intervention compounds Trump’s difficulties amid a billowing controversy relating to seven hours and 37 minutes that are missing in official call logs.

The former president also complained that Tiffany & Co. couldn't get "product" due to supply chain issues.

"I'm the best thing that ever happened to NATO, because I made them pay. They don't have things," he said. High, low — they don't have product." "She gave him $3.5 million so now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. "You go to a store, they don't have bread. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press."

The former president spoke in a television interview that raised unsubstantiated questions about Hunter Biden's dealings in Russia.

It’s also not the first time Trump has called for help from Russia to attack his political opponents. I think he should release it.” “There is only one, and it’s Donald Trump.”

Trump's call to Republican senator should have been reflected in presidential call log on day of Capitol attack but wasn't.

Trump, for instance, also connected with House minority leader Kevin McCarthy as the Capitol attack unfolded. The only instance where a call might not be reflected on the unclassified presidential call log, the officials said, would be if the call was classified, which would seem to be unlikely in the case of the call to Lee. The absence of Trump’s call to Lee suggests a serious breach in protocol and possible manipulation, the officials said. That could lead to a situation where records are vulnerable to tampering, since the presidential daily diary and call log needs approval by a senior White House official before they can be sent to the White House office of records management, the officials said. The fact that Trump’s call to Lee was routed through an official White House phone with a 202-395 prefix – either through a landline in the West Wing, the White House residence or a “work” cellphone – means details of that call should have been on the call log. But Trump’s call to Lee was not recorded in either the presidential daily diary or the presidential call log – a problem because even though entries in the daily diary are discretionary, according to several current and former White House officials, the call log is not. The number corresponds to an official White House phone and the call was placed by Donald Trump himself, which means the call should have been recorded in the internal presidential call log that was turned over to the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack.

Déjà en janvier 2020, j'évoquais une comparaison entre Richard Nixon et le 45e président.

David Carter, qui ne dispose pas de l’autorité nécessaire sur la question, a affirmé que le président Trump avait probablement fait obstruction illégalement à la session conjointe du congrès le 6 janvier 2021. Après avoir survécu à deux procédures de destitution, une procédure essentiellement politique, Donald Trump pourrait-il aussi échapper à la justice? Ce ne serait pas la première fois que Donald Trump aurait utilisé un «burner phone», un téléphone jetable, pour que certains de ses appels ne se retrouvent pas aux Archives nationales.

Donald Trump gave an interview to John Solomon in which he asked, “As long as Putin is not exactly a fan of our country,” can he release information that ...

That scandal was not exactly the same thing — Trump was abusing his power as president to smear a rival. Trump is not merely saying Putin is not a fan of President Biden, he is saying he is not a fan of the United States (no doubt because it is arming and training the country Putin is invading). And Trump just casually presents this as a reason Putin would want to help him. During his first campaign for president, Trump was secretly negotiating a deal to build towers in Moscow. Robert Mueller concluded that this sweetheart deal offered to hand Trump hundreds of millions of dollars at no risk. One irony of his request is that Trump is claiming Putin has secret info that would reveal a sweetheart deal for an American politician, which is exactly the position Trump was in. Trump is claiming that the wife of a former Moscow mayor gave the Bidens $3.5 million. Because Trump broke precedent by refusing to release his tax returns, we have grown accustomed to speculating about the sources of politicians’ income.

Political opponents derided Trump for seeking dirt on Hunter and Joe Biden from Putin, who is accused of war crimes over the invasion of Ukraine.

Political opponents derided Trump for seeking dirt on Biden from Putin, especially after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has included sustained attacks on civilians. "I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press." They called it the latest example of Trump toadying up to Putin, whom he he has described as "smart' and "savvy" after Putin authorized an invasion of neighboring Ukraine. "I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer." Amid criticism of his high regard for the Russian president and accused war criminal, former president Trump used an interview this week to ask Putin to release any information he has on reports a Russian oligarch gave money a decade ago to a company co-founded by President Joe Biden's son Hunter.

Washington — Former President Donald Trump pushed Russian President Vladimir Putin to release information about Hunter Biden, President Biden's son and his ...

Most notably, ahead of the 2020 presidential election, Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to open an investigation into Mr. Biden and his son in exchange for critical military aid. She gave them $3.5 million," Trump said in the interview from his South Florida property, Mar-a-Lago. "So, now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think we should know that answer." The former president's actions regarding the withholding of the assistance led to his impeachment by the House on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Trump was acquitted by the Senate on both impeachment charges. I think he should release it. Trump made the remark in an interview with the "Just the News" television show on Real America's Voice, during which he cited a 2020 report from Republicans on two Senate panels that investigated allegations of corruption against Mr. Biden and Hunter Biden's business dealings in Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Russian state TV is currently talking about how to replace Biden with Trump before 2024.

So now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. In July 2016, the Republican nominee famously called on Russia to release Hillary Clinton’s emails, which he said at the time could be used to blackmail her. When Trump first started making this allegation in September 2020, i.e., when he probably saw the writing on the wall re: his dwindling chances of being reelected, he stuck to only accusing Joe Biden’s son of benefiting from the supposed deal in question. So it was clearly with this thought in mind—to the extent that he has thoughts in his mind—that Trump publicly appealed for Vladimir Putin, the guy currently waging a horrific war in Ukraine, to help him smear the president of the United States and his son. In an interview with outlet Just the News that aired on the right-wing Real America’s Voice network on Tuesday, Trump pushed an unproven claim—one he’s been pushing for more than a year and a half now—that Hunter Biden was paid $3.5 million by the then wife of Moscow’s former mayor. Attempting to extort a foreign country for his own political gain?

Norman Eisen and Fred Wertheimer write that Judge David Carter's opinion sets out a road map for finally imposing consequences on former President Donald ...

The judge has made all that easier for her, and the committee should also keep her investigation in mind as they build on his work in their hearings and in their report. But his efforts are unlikely to be successful owing to the judge's very searching review of the record. By recognizing that Eastman's theories weren't just legal musings but the action plan for "a coup in search of a legal theory," Carter knocks down one of the key phony arguments on which Eastman and Trump have relied. In addition, neither we nor the committee should neglect the importance of all this to state prosecutors like Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in Georgia, who is investigating Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the election in that state. Because there is likely more evidence than what has already been disclosed, the committee should build on the judge's opinion, and then it is for the Justice Department to evaluate and determine whether the cases can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. It is an email chain that forwarded to Eastman a draft memo written for Giuliani. Carter notes that "this may have been the first time members of President Trump's team transformed a legal interpretation ... into a day-by-day plan of action." This is strong evidence of a "corrupt mindset," and it leads Carter to an eminently simple conclusion: "(t)he illegality of the plan was obvious." The possible implications for the rest of Trump's enablers are obvious. By marshaling both private conversations and public writings about the plan to overturn the election's lack of evidentiary basis, Carter shows that prosecutors have at their disposal a wide array of forms of evidence probative of the former President's intent. . He did so as to Eastman and Trump, but in terms that by implication could apply broadly to many others in their circle. Perhaps no one on earth has developed a lengthier evidentiary record than Trump -- and prosecutors can unlock that record to hold him accountable. The judge's analysis does not stop only at tackling the knotty issue of intent.

There's long been a tendency to roll your eyes whenever Donald Trump breaks a rule of politics. After all, he spent four years doing it as president -- and ...

(And let's not forget this important context: We know Russia actively meddled in the 2016 election to help Trump and hurt Clinton.) Trump remains the single most powerful figure in the Republican Party and is widely seen as a heavy favorite for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination if he decides to run. That attitude, I should note, is totally understandable as a mental health coping tactic.

The White House on Wednesday fired back at former President Donald Trump after he called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release dirt on Hunter Biden ...

The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that a federal tax investigation was gaining steam as prosecutors gather information about the sources of his foreign income, and The Washington Post on Wednesday published a detailed report about Hunter Biden’s interactions with a Chinese energy company and its executives. “She gave him $3.5 million, so now I would think Putin would know the answer to that. His latest request for Putin sparked more backlash this week, as Trump leaned into dubious claims about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, alleging that he received millions of dollars from the wife of Moscow’s late mayor Yury Luzhkov, and that Putin could confirm this information.