Bolton’s intervention intensifies Trump’s difficulties amid a heated controversy over seven hours and 37 minutes missing from official call logs. The gap appears in the records made for January 6 last year – the day of the violent uprising in the US Capitol. The Washington Post and CBS News reported Tuesday that a House committee investigating the uprising is considering a “possible cover-up” of the White House archives. Documents originally held by the National Archives and handed over to the commission earlier this year showed a gap in Trump’s phone calls covering just the time when hundreds of his supporters stormed the Capitol building. News agencies, which received 11 pages of files, including Trump’s official daily diary and a call log for the White House distribution panel, said the House panel had launched an inquiry into whether Trump used “burning phones.” disposable to bypass control. In a statement to the Post / CBS News, Trump said: “I have no idea what a burning phone is, as far as I know I have never even heard the term.” That’s not true, according to Bolton. In an interview with the Post / CBS News, the former national security adviser said he had recalled that Trump “used the term ‘burner phones’ in many discussions and that Trump knew what it meant”. Bolton added that he and Trump had talked about “how people used ‘landline phones’ to avoid controlling their calls,” according to Robert Costa, co-author of the Post / CBS News revelations with Bob. Woodward. The January 6 commission is investigating whether Trump was directly involved in coordinating the breach of security at the Capitol on the day that Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election was to be certified by Congress. What Trump did and who he spoke to as the uprising unfolded is central to the investigation. The call logs obtained by the commission show that Trump spoke with several close associates on the morning of January 6, including his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former senior adviser Steve Bannon. His daily diary shows an entry at 11.17 a.m. for a phone call with an “unknown person”, but after that the files are silent. The next telephone log is at 6.54 p.m. when Trump asked the White House distribution board to send him to Dan Scavino’s communications manager. In the 457 minutes that followed, Trump supporters and white supremacists broke through police barricades, forcing Vice President Mike Pence, who oversaw the certification process, to go into hiding. A bipartisan Senate report linked seven deaths to the attack, with more than 100 law enforcement officers injured.
