“It is often said that Nixon’s cover-up was worse than his underlying crime. The opposite is potentially true for Trump,” Jill Wayne Banks wrote in an April 2 NBC article. “Trump’s record gap is 25 times larger than Nixon’s, but his alleged crime could be incalculably worse,” he added. Trump is currently in custody for a seven-hour, 37-minute break in the White House’s call log on the day of the Capitol uprising. The absence of these call records also prompted the January 6th Parliamentary Committee to investigate a “possible cover-up”. “A lot can be said in 457 minutes,” Wine-Banks wrote. “Comparisons with the 18.5-minute gap in a critical recording by President Richard Nixon were immediately apparent to me,” he added. Wine-Banks, which examined Nixon’s secretary in 1973 over the gap, also noted that “she was not the only one who made that connection” between Trump and Nixon. “First of all, Nixon’s gap seems – in my experience and that of other experts – to have been a deliberate deletion. Is it Trump? We do not have enough evidence to say with certainty yet, but the missing piece certainly seems intentional,” he wrote. . According to Wine-Banks, the omission of vital data in the Trump case was “suspicious” and provoked a “series of urgent follow-up questions.” The story goes on “It is unlikely, even unbelievable, that anyone called the president for 457 minutes during a crisis while he was in the White House. Even calls that go unanswered in the White House should be recorded in the official logs,” he wrote. Wine-Banks added that while the gap in Nixon’s conversation was “about covering a third-degree burglary”, Trump’s calls most likely concerned the uprising and plans to overthrow free and fair elections in the United States. Watergate was a major political scandal that focused on the Nixon administration’s efforts to cover up its involvement in a 1972 burglary at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, DC. The scandal led to Nixon’s resignation in August 1974. Parallels have also been drawn between Watergate and the numerous scandals that plagued the White House during Trump’s presidency. Read the original article in Business Insider