Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) stated lawmakers on the Jan. 6 Home choose committee are deeply within the 7-hour hole in former President Donald Trump’s White Home cellphone 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, told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that lawmakers had been in a position to piece collectively some particulars about who Trump spoke with that day, however have been nonetheless lacking key info.
“It’s a really uncommon factor for us to seek out, that all of the sudden all the things goes darkish for a 7-hour interval by way of monitoring the actions and the conversations of the president,” Raskin stated.
“We’re conscious of different cellphone 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 data may very well be linked to broader incompetence throughout the White Home throughout Trump’s tenure, Raskin stated the committee was taking that into consideration.
“It does look like the gaps are suspiciously tailor-made to the guts of the occasions,” Raskin stated, “however we’re checking that out.”
Final week, Axios reported that Trump’s govt assistant Molly Michael was absent for most of Jan. 6, 2021. Her duties included preserving notes on Trump’s scheduled conferences and calls.
Though Trump tried to claim govt privilege with a purpose 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 Post and CBS News first reported final month that the data 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.
