World News / 31 March 2022
Trump’s phones go quiet
After a long legal battle, the congressional committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump on 6 January 2021 has received the official White House phone logs from that day. They reveal that Trump contacted 8 people in the morning and 11 more that evening. But there’s a 7-hour gap in the records – including when the Capitol was under attack. That goes against accounts from several Republican congressmen who said they spoke with the President that afternoon. It’s left questions about whether Trump ‘went dark’ by using other people’s private phones or whether the logs were destroyed altogether. Team Trump disputes those claims, saying his phone records had been appropriately recorded. And in another blast from the past, Trump is continuing to push claims about President Joe Biden’s son Hunter’s business dealings. He’s now calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release the intel he has on the Biden family.
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