'Puts Nixon’s 18 minute gap to shame': Journalists react to bombshell 7-hour Trump call log gap
Donald Trump speaking at a MAGA rally at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix, Arizona in February 2020, Gage Skidmore
March 29, 2022 | 08:20AM ETBankOn Tuesday morning, March 29, Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa reported that “internal White House records from the day of the” January 6, 2021 “attack on the U.S. Capitol that were turned over to the House select committee show a gap in President Donald Trump’s phone logs of seven hours and 37 minutes, including the period when the building was being violently assaulted.” After this news broke, it didn’t take long for social media to be inundated with reactions.
White House logs from Jan. 6 turned over to House show gap in Trump calls of seven hours and 37 minuteshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/29/trump-white-house-logs/\u00a0\u2026— The Washington Post (@The Washington Post) 1648551687
Politico's Zack Stanton posted:
Still wrapping my brain around a former president even needing to say something like this:\n\n"In a statement Monday night, Trump said, 'I have no idea what a burner phone is, to the best of my knowledge I have never even heard the term.'"— Zack Stanton (@Zack Stanton) 1648552649
Kyle Cheney of Politico noted some of the prominent Republicans Trump was in touch with during that period:
Costa and Woodward get their hands on Trump\u2019s official call log from Jan. 6 which includes contacts with, among others: Bannon, Giuliani, Kurt Olsen, Cleta Mitchell, Josh Hawley, Dan Scavino and Jim Jordan.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/29/trump-white-house-logs/\u00a0\u2026— Kyle Cheney (@Kyle Cheney) 1648553651
Costa and Woodward get their hands on Trump\u2019s official call log from Jan. 6 which includes contacts with, among others: Bannon, Giuliani, Kurt Olsen, Cleta Mitchell, Josh Hawley, Dan Scavino and Jim Jordan.https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/29/trump-white-house-logs/\u00a0\u2026— Kyle Cheney (@Kyle Cheney) 1648553651
NOTE: The 11:17am call to an \u201cunidentified\u201d 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\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/iBoDyEv5Bw— Kyle Cheney (@Kyle Cheney) 1648553944
The New Yorker's Susan Glasser commented:
Puts Nixon\u2019s 18 minute gap to shame\u2026https://twitter.com/costareports/status/1508763790648741888\u00a0\u2026— Susan Glasser (@Susan Glasser) 1648552595
Here are some more reactions:
The same people who believe that there is a massive coverup around Hillary\u2019s emails will be totally fine with 8 hours of missing calls on the day of coup that Trump *totally* didn\u2019t have anything to do with.— Jay Black (@Jay Black) 1648551824
Surprise surprise. The bigger question is how did 70 million plus Americans ever believe this criminal was anything but a criminal?— Bret Ware (@Bret Ware) 1648552009
Watergate missing information: the sequel.— Barry Katz (@Barry Katz) 1648552514
Due to the late,slow,disastrous approach to pandemia by Trump, USA is a huge graveyard with more than 1000000 coronavirus patient\u2019s deaths.Trump destroyed the economy, cannot respond to racial crisis properly & incited violence against Capitol on January 6 & Defunded NATO! Enough— Alfonso Pino (@Alfonso Pino) 1648552793
A 7-hour gap in phone calls? Nixon had an 18 1/2 minute gap. Would that make Trump the Grateful Dead to Nixon's Pink Floyd?— David M. Stewart (@David M. Stewart) 1648552796
He certainly crushed the Watergate record of 18 1/2 minutes.— Robert O'Mara (@Robert O'Mara) 1648552830
What does continuously uncovering any of this "evidence" matter if the Dems, the DOJ or whomever else isn't going to prosecute him, his kids and the rest of his co-conspirators?\n\nConvene a grand jury and let's get on with this already.— C.K. Dexter Haven (@C.K. Dexter Haven) 1648552516
The idea some folks want TFG back in 2024 is scarier than the war in Ukraine. Losing our democracy to a sociopath who has already done unknown & reprehensible damage to our country & democracy. He & Jared stole billions. It\u2019s unimaginable people want more.https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-election-results-supporters-twitter-fox-news-b1723791.html?amp\u00a0\u2026— Empress Rule (@Empress Rule) 1648552481
