1/6 Insurrection Investigation

[Rick Plant]

Columnist: Bombshell report on missing call logs could make it easier for Jan. 6 committee to get records from Trump allies



Nearly eight hours are missing from White House call logs for the period when Donald Trump's supporters mobbed the U.S. Capitol -- raising new questions about the president and his inner circle.

Documents turned over by the National Archives to the House select committee don't account for the period between just after 11 a.m. to nearly 7 p.m., although the former president reportedly called at least one Republican senator asking to delay the election certification as the violence raged, reported the Washington Post.

“He was using the leverage of the violent insurrection to keep the inside political coup against Pence going,” said Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-MD), a member of the Jan. 6 committee. “Most everyone not cooperating with the committee is helping shield Trump from public disclosure about what happened during that period."

But the select committee might already have records of those missing calls because they have subpoenaed phone records from some key players, and the lengthy gap in White House call logs will strengthen lawmakers' case to obtain phone records from other members of Congress or Trump allies.

"The committee is debating whether to subpoena members of Congress such as [House minority leader Kevin] McCarthy (R-CA) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who also talked to Trump on Jan. 6," wrote Post columnist Greg Sargent. "The source close to the committee tells me the missing phone logs might strengthen the case internally for subpoenaing them, because there should be more pressure on those lawmakers to testify about these calls with Trump."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/29/trump-missing-phone-logs-key-takeaways/

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/politics/jim-jordan-trump-january-6/index.html


Handwritten notes may reveal 'unknown person' in last Trump call before mysterious seven-hour gap



Handwritten notes in a previously released document from the National Archives may reveal the identity of the "unknown person" who was the last reported call made by Donald Trump before the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The National Archives turned over White call logs to the House select committee, which the Washington Post obtained and found a seven-hour, 37-minute gap in calls between 11:17 a.m., when the call was made to the unidentified individual, and 6:54 p.m., when Trump instructed the operator to call aide Dan Scavino.

However, handwritten notes on another White House document shows Trump called then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) at 11:17 a.m. -- three minutes before his final call to then-vice president Mike Pence, which has been previously reported but was not recorded in the call logs turned over to the committee.

Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheney

But the omissions are the key, as they point out. Calls we know occurred that are not on this list:

-Final call with Pence (11:20am)
-Later call with Jordan
-Heated with McCarthy
-Call with Lee/Tuberville

NOTE: The 11:17am call to an “unidentified” person appears to be Kelly LOEFFLER, based on this previously released document from the National Archives.https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.841840/gov.uscourts.cacd.841840.164.13.pdf



The logs obtained by the Post show Trump also spoke with then-Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) on Jan. 6, a day after each Georgia Republican lost runoff elections to Democratic challengers.

Loeffler had promised Trump two days earlier at a campaign rally that she would object to certification of Joe Biden's election win but changed her mind after the Capitol riot, but through a quirk in Georgia election law Perdue's term ended Jan. 3, 2021, so he was no longer in Congress.

Other previously reported phone calls that did not show up on the White House logs include a phone call with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), a heated exchange with House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and a conversation with Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL).

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/15087699996698992


Bob Woodward: Unlikely that 'telephone addict' Trump didn’t call anyone for 7 hours during Jan. 6 riot

Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, Bob Woodward explained that former President Donald Trump "is a telephone addict," and any idea that he didn't speak to anyone for seven hours is "unlikely."

Paperwork revealed by Woodward and Robert Costa in the Washington Post showed more than 7 hours and 30 minutes in which Trump's phone calls were not logged. It's prompting questions about whether Trump or his allies were using burner phones or other cell phones to keep any communication off the record.

"What's so important what the Jan. 6 committee is doing is very aggressive effort to talk to everyone, get every piece of paper, chase it down like a reporter who has time," Woodward explained. "And I got to know from very well during the 2020 campaign when he would -- I was talking to him and we did 17 interviews, he would call any time. And he is a telephone addict, and the idea that nothing happened in the afternoon on the phone Jan. 6 is as unlikely as the sun not rising, quite frankly."

Host John King cited reports from others explaining that Trump frequently would use other people's phones or randomly ask for someone to hand him a cell phone.

"Yes, but they'll figure it out or they'll get parts of it," said Woodward about the committee. "And it is -- I remember talking to Trump one afternoon. I called him. I had some questions. This is in 2020 before the election. And he said, 'Oh, I can't talk. I have 20 generals waiting downstairs.' And then he talked for 25 minutes. You almost couldn't get him off the phone, and it would appear any time. So, to have seven hours and 37 minutes' void, where, in the morning, he's talking to ten people, in the evening he's talking to 12 people and then there are calls that we don't know about that didn't go through?"

Legal analysts have warned that intentionally hiding calls using other phones could show a "consciousness of guilt."

See the interview below:

[Rick Plant]

Ginni Thomas Pushed To Subvert The 2020 Election

Text exchanges revealed by the Washington Post show Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pushed Mark Meadows to overturn the 2020 election. Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance breaks down the damning messages.

Watch:

[Rick Plant]

Biden’s DOJ is finally expanding criminal investigation into Jan. 6 insurrection

After fierce public criticism that the Department of Justice has not done enough to hold former President Donald Trump and his supporters accountable for their efforts to overturn the election, The Washington Post on Wednesday published a major new report on Attorney General Merrick Garland's investigations.

"The criminal investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol has expanded to examine the preparations for the rally that preceded the riot, as the Justice Department aims to determine the full extent of any conspiracy to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election victory, according to people familiar with the matter. In the past two months, a federal grand jury in Washington has issued subpoena requests to some officials in former president Donald Trump’s orbit who assisted in planning, funding and executing the Jan. 6 rally," the newspaper reported, citing "people familiar with the matter" who were granted anonymity to speak candidly.

The report came after Judge David O. Carter of the Central District of California ruled Trump likely committed felony misconduct.

"The development shows the degree to which the Justice Department investigation — which already involves more defendants than any other criminal prosecution in the nation’s history — has moved further beyond the storming of the Capitol to examine events preceding the attack," the newspaper reported. "Grand jury subpoenas are a legal mechanism used by prosecutors to gather information for a criminal investigation, and a subpoena in and of itself doesn’t mean any particular recipient is under investigation or likely to face charges. But the subpoena demands issued in recent weeks do indicate that the aperture of the investigation has widened, after Attorney General Merrick Garland pledged in a speech this Jan. 5, the day before the first anniversary of the attack on the Capitol, to follow the evidence wherever it leads."

Read the full report:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/30/jan-6-fbi-subpoena-justice/

[Rick Plant]

Feds charge Missouri MAGA rioter who told cops he was there because 'your president told us to be'



On Thursday, CBS News' Scott MacFarlane, the key authority covering the January 6 Capitol insurrection prosecutions, reported that the Justice Department has unsealed a new case against Cale Clayton, who was caught on video yelling at and taunting police as they tried to defend the Capitol from the incoming mob.

"You guys realize your President told us to be here. Your President!" shouted Clayton at one point. "Hey, how does that make you feel? You’re defying your own f***ng country. Your own country you’re defying."

At another point, he also shouted at police, “We are going to win. You don’t have enough for all of us. You might hit me once or twice. You might spray me with pepper spray. I don’t give a f**k. There ain’t enough for millions of people here and you know it.”

Cale faces a multitude of charges according to the DOJ charging document, including assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers, civil disorder, theft of government property, entering a restricted area, and disorderly conduct.

At least 800 people have now been charged in connection with the attack on the Capitol, ranging from misdemeanors like trespassing to seditious conspiracy.

Scott MacFarlane:
@MacFarlaneNews

In newly unsealed case vs. Jan 6 defendant Cale Clayton of Missouri, feds say Clayton yelled at police:

"You guys realize your President told us to be here. Your President! Hey, how does that make you feel? You’re defying your own f***ng country. Your own country you’re defying"

Watch: https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1509589340472725515

[Richard Smith]

Columnist: Bombshell report on missing call logs could make it easier for Jan. 6 committee to get records from Trump allies



Nearly eight hours are missing from White House call logs for the period when Donald Trump's supporters mobbed the U.S. Capitol -- raising new questions about the president and his inner circle.

Documents turned over by the National Archives to the House select committee don't account for the period between just after 11 a.m. to nearly 7 p.m., although the former president reportedly called at least one Republican senator asking to delay the election certification as the violence raged, reported the Washington Post.

“He was using the leverage of the violent insurrection to keep the inside political coup against Pence going,” said Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-MD), a member of the Jan. 6 committee. “Most everyone not cooperating with the committee is helping shield Trump from public disclosure about what happened during that period."

But the select committee might already have records of those missing calls because they have subpoenaed phone records from some key players, and the lengthy gap in White House call logs will strengthen lawmakers' case to obtain phone records from other members of Congress or Trump allies.

"The committee is debating whether to subpoena members of Congress such as [House minority leader Kevin] McCarthy (R-CA) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), who also talked to Trump on Jan. 6," wrote Post columnist Greg Sargent. "The source close to the committee tells me the missing phone logs might strengthen the case internally for subpoenaing them, because there should be more pressure on those lawmakers to testify about these calls with Trump."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/29/trump-missing-phone-logs-key-takeaways/

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/politics/jim-jordan-trump-january-6/index.html


Handwritten notes may reveal 'unknown person' in last Trump call before mysterious seven-hour gap



Handwritten notes in a previously released document from the National Archives may reveal the identity of the "unknown person" who was the last reported call made by Donald Trump before the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The National Archives turned over White call logs to the House select committee, which the Washington Post obtained and found a seven-hour, 37-minute gap in calls between 11:17 a.m., when the call was made to the unidentified individual, and 6:54 p.m., when Trump instructed the operator to call aide Dan Scavino.

However, handwritten notes on another White House document shows Trump called then-Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) at 11:17 a.m. -- three minutes before his final call to then-vice president Mike Pence, which has been previously reported but was not recorded in the call logs turned over to the committee.

Kyle Cheney
@kyledcheney

But the omissions are the key, as they point out. Calls we know occurred that are not on this list:

-Final call with Pence (11:20am)
-Later call with Jordan
-Heated with McCarthy
-Call with Lee/Tuberville

NOTE: The 11:17am call to an “unidentified” person appears to be Kelly LOEFFLER, based on this previously released document from the National Archives.https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.841840/gov.uscourts.cacd.841840.164.13.pdf



The logs obtained by the Post show Trump also spoke with then-Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) on Jan. 6, a day after each Georgia Republican lost runoff elections to Democratic challengers.

Loeffler had promised Trump two days earlier at a campaign rally that she would object to certification of Joe Biden's election win but changed her mind after the Capitol riot, but through a quirk in Georgia election law Perdue's term ended Jan. 3, 2021, so he was no longer in Congress.

Other previously reported phone calls that did not show up on the White House logs include a phone call with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), a heated exchange with House minority leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and a conversation with Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL).

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/15087699996698992


Bob Woodward: Unlikely that 'telephone addict' Trump didn’t call anyone for 7 hours during Jan. 6 riot

Speaking to CNN on Tuesday, Bob Woodward explained that former President Donald Trump "is a telephone addict," and any idea that he didn't speak to anyone for seven hours is "unlikely."

Paperwork revealed by Woodward and Robert Costa in the Washington Post showed more than 7 hours and 30 minutes in which Trump's phone calls were not logged. It's prompting questions about whether Trump or his allies were using burner phones or other cell phones to keep any communication off the record.

"What's so important what the Jan. 6 committee is doing is very aggressive effort to talk to everyone, get every piece of paper, chase it down like a reporter who has time," Woodward explained. "And I got to know from very well during the 2020 campaign when he would -- I was talking to him and we did 17 interviews, he would call any time. And he is a telephone addict, and the idea that nothing happened in the afternoon on the phone Jan. 6 is as unlikely as the sun not rising, quite frankly."

Host John King cited reports from others explaining that Trump frequently would use other people's phones or randomly ask for someone to hand him a cell phone.

"Yes, but they'll figure it out or they'll get parts of it," said Woodward about the committee. "And it is -- I remember talking to Trump one afternoon. I called him. I had some questions. This is in 2020 before the election. And he said, 'Oh, I can't talk. I have 20 generals waiting downstairs.' And then he talked for 25 minutes. You almost couldn't get him off the phone, and it would appear any time. So, to have seven hours and 37 minutes' void, where, in the morning, he's talking to ten people, in the evening he's talking to 12 people and then there are calls that we don't know about that didn't go through?"

Legal analysts have warned that intentionally hiding calls using other phones could show a "consciousness of guilt."

See the interview below:

Debunked.  Will you be deleting this disinformation?

CNN (April 1):
Official review of Trump phone logs from January 6 finds record is complete

[Rick Plant]

Debunked.  Will you be deleting this disinformation?

CNN (April 1):
Official review of Trump phone logs from January 6 finds record is complete

 

Not debunked. According to a "Trump source". What a joke. 

[Rick Plant]

‘The President Participated’: Jan. 6 committee publishes damning text about Navarro, Meadows, and Trump



The House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack is demanding former top Trump advisor Peter Navarro speak with them "about his role in the attempt to overturn the election."

Friday afternoon the Committee posted a damning "January 3 text to Mark Meadows," which they say reads: "I have details on the call that Navarro helped convene... to delay certification... including that the president participated..."

The Committee did not reveal who sent the text.

On Monday the Committee had voted to hold Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino in criminal contempt of Congress.

"This seems like a big deal," Citizens for Ethics, a government watchdog, said in response to the text.

January 6th Committee
@January6thCmte

A January 3 text to Mark Meadows: "I have details on the call that Navarro helped convene... to delay certification... including that the president participated..."

Peter Navarro must speak to the Select Committee about his role in the attempt to overturn the election.



https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/04/the-president-participated-jan-6-committee-publishes-damning-text-about-navarro-meadows-and-trump/