{O/C} On the domestic front, the House panel probing into the January 6 insurrection has run into an impediment to progress because of gaps between phone records.
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Members of the House committee connecting the dots in the deadly January 6 attack found themselves in the hot seat following the discovery of gaps in official White House telephone logs that hold the key to what Trump was doing during the critical hours leading up to the Capitol insurrection.
Sources say the gap in the call records spans several hours on the heels of the President's incendiary speech that triggered the unrest.
The phone conservations reportedly include those with House Minority Leader, Kevin McCarthy, and Senator Tommy Tuberville, who has publicly described his conversations with the President during those hours.
Warnings that using his personal cellphone to speak would lead to secret data leaks all fell on deaf ears as the President always used his phone to speak with aides, allies and outside confidants.
But this also means some calls sidestepped the normal channels of presidential communication, resulting in the loss of a number of call logs.
As a matter of fact, Trump was spotted taking boxes of classified documents to his personal resort at Mar-a-Lago.
In another development, reports suggest Trump's memorabilia, perhaps even along with classified documents belonging to the U.S. government, were improperly delivered to Florida right before Biden took the helm. Those documents include letters from North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, as well as a handwritten note from Trump's predecessor, Barack Obama.
What's more embarrassing, staff at the White House said they periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet, which led to the notion that Trump had attempted to flush documents down the toilet. A claim Trump has adamantly refuted.
All this are featured in a forthcoming book written by a New York Times reporter which revolves around Trump's presidency.
Setting the record straight, former Trump aide Chuck Grassley insists the country does not brook any breaches of the Federal Records Act.
{Soundbite} CHUCK GRASSLEY, U.S. Senator (R), Iowa: There's nothing special about him or anybody else. You've got to... The law says you've got to preserve records, so you preserve records.
Meantime, Democrats are calling it a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black as the hypocritical Trump himself did similar things that he accused Hillary Clinton of committing.
This, as the House Committee has also subpoenaed telcommunications companies for personal cellphone records belonging to people in Trump's inner circle.
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