Opinion by Greg Sargent: In another bid for the “Worse than Watergate” files, it turns out there is a seven-hour gap in Donald Trump’s phone logs on the day of the insurrection attempt.
Here’s why: What’s at issue is how Trump reacted in real time as the violence unfolded. We know hemultiple entreaties to issue a public statement calming the violence.
But it’s also likely Trump came to see the violence as helpful to intimidating his vice president, Mike Pence, and possibly lawmakers as well, into executing the scheme of delaying the electoral count. Trump reportedly“He was using the leverage of the violent insurrection to keep the inside political coup against Pence going,” Rep. Jamie B. Raskin , a member of the Jan. 6 committee, told me.
But either way, the committee might be able to confirm many of Trump’s calls during that period, anyway, and indeed might already have done so., and this includes Meadows. The committee has already started receiving some of this information, per CNN.
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