Yesterday, The Washington Post reported that there is a gap of 7 hours and 37 minutes in White House phone logs for January 6, 2021.

So, according to official White House records, Donald Trump neither made nor received a single phone call between 11:17 a.m. and 6:54 p.m. — even as a violent mob stormed the United States Capitol in an attempted coup d’etat to keep him in power.

That, to put it mildly, strains credulity. And, in fact, multiple people — including members of Congress — have said they were on calls with Trump at various times during the January 6 insurrection.

It seems very likely that Trump used personal phones during this gap and kept his calls off the official logs.

One of the reporters on this story was none other than Bob Woodward, who, along with Carl Bernstein, did much of the investigative reporting on the Watergate scandal that led to Richard Nixon resigning in disgrace.

And one of the factors in Nixon’s downfall was an “accidental” gap of 18.5 minutes in his secret Oval Office tapes — which lawmakers, not to mention the American people, found incriminating.

Trump’s gap is 457 minutes.

This all comes the day after a federal judge denied a ploy by one of Trump’s lawyers — ruling that it is “more likely than not” that Trump broke the law and “corruptly attempted to obstruct” Congress in his bid to overturn the 2020 election.

The judge even said “the illegality of the plan was obvious.”

Tell Attorney General Merrick Garland:

You run the DOJ and the FBI. Direct these law enforcement agencies to prosecute Donald Trump to the full extent of the law for any crimes he committed related to the January 6 insurrection, including any attempted cover-up.

Add your name now.

Thank you for taking action.

For justice,

- Robert Weissman, President of Public Citizen

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