{"id":1414826,"date":"2022-04-01T12:29:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414826"},"modified":"2022-04-01T12:29:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:29:36","slug":"always-wrong-media-bombshell-on-missing-trump-white-house-call-logs-turns-out-to-be-complete-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/always-wrong-media-bombshell-on-missing-trump-white-house-call-logs-turns-out-to-be-complete-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Wrong: Media \u201cBombshell\u201d on Missing Trump White House Call Logs Turns Out to Be Complete Nonsense\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falways-wrong-media-bombshell-on-missing-trump-white-house-call-logs-turns-out-to-be-complete-nonsense%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414826&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The establishment media were abuzz this week with stories about a \u201cseven-hour gap\u201d in White House switchboard logs on January 6, but on Thursday night it emerged that the gap was likely the result of using ordinary landlines and cell phones.<\/p>\n<p>Documents turned over to the\u00a0United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, and then leaked to the media, suggested that there was a gap that could have been caused by President Donald Trump or his aides suppressing information.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cA 7-hour gap in Trump\u2019s calls evokes a missing spot on Nixon\u2019s tapes,\u201d the\u00a0<em>Washington Post<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2022\/03\/30\/trump-calls-nixon-tapes\/\">reported<\/a> breathlessly, recalling the 18-minute gap in President Richard Nixon\u2019s White House tapes that ultimately led him to resign his presidency in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Post<\/em>\u2018s left-wing opinion columnist Greg Sergeant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2022\/03\/29\/trump-missing-phone-logs-key-takeaways\/\">suggested<\/a>\u00a0the absent Trump phone logs were \u201cworse than Watergate\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In another bid for the \u201cWorse than Watergate\u201d files, it turns out there is a seven-hour gap in Donald Trump\u2019s phone logs on the day of the insurrection attempt. According to documents obtained by The Post and CBS News, there is no record of then-President Trump\u2019s calls on Jan. 6, 2021, from just after 11 a.m. to shortly before 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>That means there\u2019s a big black hole in the record when it comes to Trump\u2019s conversations throughout the period during which the mob assaulted the U.S. Capitol and violence raged over several hours.<\/p>\n<p>The documents, which were turned over to the House select committee examining Jan. 6, do show that Trump had many calls before 11 a.m. and after 6 p.m. that were apparently related to the coup effort. That suggests Trump held many calls related to the insurrection between those two times that are not officially accounted for.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sargent speculated that the reluctance of Trump aides to cooperate with the one-sided January 6 probe added fuel to the story.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>But it turns out to have been something of a hoax. As CNN reported on Thursday evening, citing a source inside the January 6 investigation, there were no missing pages in the switchboard logs and that there was a more likely, innocent explanation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN Breaking: The 6 pages of WH switchboard logs for 1\/6 are complete based on an official review of White House records, according to a source familiar with the matter.\u00a0There are no missing pages &#038; the 7 hour gap is likely explained by use of WH landlines &#038; cell phones link\ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffb<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamie Gangel (@jamiegangel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamiegangel\/status\/1509717629631619073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">More here \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F8605bzODe\">https:\/\/t.co\/F8605bzODe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ryanobles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ryanobles<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZcohenCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ZcohenCNN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kpolantz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kpolantz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnnieGrayerCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AnnieGrayerCNN<\/a> and me<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamie Gangel (@jamiegangel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamiegangel\/status\/1509718070016761857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">That said, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/January6thCmte?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@January6thCmte<\/a> still wants to know who Trump was talking to and what he was doing and not doing during the attack. There are other phone logs and records they can check and ask for. This simply speaks to Trump not using the WH switchboard to place calls.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jamie Gangel (@jamiegangel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamiegangel\/status\/1509841009982726165?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 1, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/31\/politics\/mystery-call-gap-trump-jan-6-white-house-phone-logs\/index.html\">story<\/a> on the phone logs, CNN \u2014 using six reporters \u2014 reported that the so-called gap was not, in fact, unusual:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The mystery of the seven-hour gap has fueled furious speculation as to why calls are missing. That includes allegations that Trump was using \u201cburner phones\u201d (which he has denied) or that the logs were purposely suppressed.<\/p>\n<p>But the gap might have a less mysterious explanation.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple sources familiar with Trump\u2019s phone behavior and the White House switchboard records, the January 6 log reflects Trump\u2019s typical phone habits. He mainly placed calls through the switchboard when he was in the residence but rarely used it when he was in the Oval Office. The fact the log does not show calls on January 6, 2021, from the Oval Office is not unusual, said the sources, because Trump typically had staff either place calls directly for him on landlines or cell phones. Those calls would not be noted on the switchboard log.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>CNN also noted, citing a former aide to President Barack Obama, that Obama\u2019s calls were also frequently not in the record.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, despite the\u00a0<em>Post<\/em>\u2018s suggestion that the \u201cgap\u201d was \u201cworse than Watergate,\u201d the story seems to have ended the same way other \u201cworst than Watergate\u201d hoaxes about Trump, like the \u201cRussia collusion\u201d conspiracy theory, have ended: by being debunked.<\/p>\n<p>Despite puncturing the bubble about the seven-hour gap, CNN still began its article by reminding readers that Trump phoned Vice President Mike Pence that day, noting that the call is not in the records \u2014 perhaps because it was made by cell phone.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of <\/em>Breitbart News Sunday<em> on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Neither-Free-nor-Fair-Presidential-ebook\/dp\/B08PNN54BB\">Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election<\/a>. His recent book, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.centerstreet.com\/titles\/joel-b-pollak\/red-november\/9781546099840\/\">RED NOVEMBER<\/a><em>, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joelpollak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@joelpollak<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The establishment media were abuzz this week with stories about a \u201cseven-hour gap\u201d in White House switchboard logs on January 6, but on Thursday night it emerged that the gap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}