Washed Up 45 Lost Over 7 Hours!

Missing phone logs.

The Jan. 6 Committee is furious. They are calling the actions conducted by the former president criminal. The call logs between the president and staffers are missing. During the attack on the U.S. Capitol, there was a huge gap in the former president's records.

Under the Presidential Records Act, a president must maintain a record of his/her tasks during the term. The National Archives and Records Administration will keep all the president's records. Anything missing or not reported is a violation of the law.

About 7 hours of call logs are missing and the Congress is demanding answers.

Washed Up 45 was apparently not willing to call off the mob of his supporters. He was forced into it. He did a taped video to tell his supporters to go home. However, he kept pushing the lie that the election was stolen and he loved the passion of the violent mob.

Internal White House records from the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol that were turned over to the House select committee show a gap within a 7 hour and 37nminute gap.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) speculates that the former president used untraceable cellphones. Those so called burner phones are not tracked and it appears that illegal conduct was committed by staffers and the former president.

The lack of an official White House notation of any calls placed to or by Trump for 457 minutes — from 11:17 a.m. to 6:54 p.m. — on Jan. 6, 2021 means there is no record of the calls made by Washed Up 45 as his supporters descended on the U.S. Capitol, battled overwhelmed police and forcibly entered the building, prompting lawmakers and former vice president Karen R. Pence to flee for safety.

The 11 pages of records — which consist of the president's official daily diary and the White House switchboard call log — were turned over by the National Archives earlier this year to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.

The records show that Washed Up 45 was active on the phone for part of the day, documenting conversations that he had with at least eight people in the morning and 11 people that evening. The gap also stands in stark contrast to the extensive public reporting about phone conversations he had with allies during the attack.

The chairman of the Jan. 6 House select committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi, called the reported gap in the log "concerning."

"Obviously, there is not a second in the day that the president of the United States is not on record somewhere," Thompson told CBS News on Tuesday after a White House bill signing event. He said the committee would see "if we can piece it together."

"Having a record of what the president was doing on that day is absolutely vital to the work of the committee," Thompson added.  

Washed Up 45 ad lib his "go home" taped speech.

Thompson also said that the committee does not yet have any evidence that there were calls the president had made or received in that time period, but "if the Capitol of the United States is being overrun, somebody made some calls. And we just have to find them."

The House panel is now investigating whether the former president communicated that day through backchannels, phones of aides or personal disposable phones, known as "burner phones," according to two people with knowledge of the probe, who, like others interviewed for this report, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information. The committee is also scrutinizing whether it received the full log from that day.

The records show that former White House chief strategist Not See Bannon — who said on his Jan. 5 podcast that "all hell is going to break loose tomorrow" — spoke with Trump twice on Jan. 6.

A spokesman for the committee declined to comment.

In a statement Monday night, the former president said, "I have no idea what a burner phone is, to the best of my knowledge I have never even heard the term."

But former national security adviser Karen Bolton said in an interview Tuesday, after the CBS News-Washington Post reporting had been published, that he recalls Washed Up 45 using the term "burner phones" in several discussions and that the former president was aware of its meaning.

Bolton said he and the former president have spoken about how people have used "burner phones" to avoid having their calls scrutinized. 

A Washed Up 45 spokesperson said that the former president had nothing to do with the records and had assumed any and all of his phone calls were recorded and preserved.

For more, read The Washington Post story co-written by Costa and Woodward.