{"id":1415002,"date":"2022-04-01T13:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415002"},"modified":"2022-04-01T13:44:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:44:51","slug":"april-fools-gap-in-trumps-jan-6-phone-records-was-a-big-media-fabricated-nothingburger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/april-fools-gap-in-trumps-jan-6-phone-records-was-a-big-media-fabricated-nothingburger\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fools! Gap In Trump\u2019s Jan. 6 Phone Records Was A Big Media-Fabricated Nothingburger"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Fapril-fools-gap-in-trumps-jan-6-phone-records-was-a-big-media-fabricated-nothingburger%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=1415002&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--><p>It seems the mysterious gap in White House phone records on Jan. 6, 2021, which legacy media insisted was indicative of suspicious conduct within the Trump administration amid the riot at the capitol and which led the news cycle this week, was nothing but an April Fools joke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFifty years ago, the scandalous actions of an American president were shielded from public view, thanks to a suspiciously convenient 18\u00bd-minute gap in the Nixon White House\u2019s call recordings,\u201d The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/29\/inexplicable-gaps-trump-records\/\">reported<\/a> Tuesday. \u201cToday, the actions of another American president remain shielded thanks to another convenient \u2014 and inexplicable \u2014 gap in White House records.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If there is anything to be compared with former President Richard Nixon\u2019s scandals in the one manufactured by the Democrats and the corporate press surrounding former President Donald Trump, however, it\u2019s the House <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/03\/25\/jan-6-committee-claims-its-digital-watergate-is-above-the-law\/\">Jan. 6 Committee\u2019s open execution <\/a>of a modern-day \u201cdigital Watergate\u201d complete with state-sponsored persecution of political dissidents. <\/p>\n<p>Other outlets were quick to jump on the gap in White House records to frame a former president in the shadow of the only commander in chief to resign from office 50 years ago. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCall Logs Underscore Trump\u2019s Efforts to Sway Lawmakers on Jan. 6,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/29\/us\/politics\/trump-jan-6-call-logs.html\">headlined<\/a> The New York Times moments after publication of the story from The Washington Post.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTrump White House phone records show 7-hour gap on Jan. 6,\u201d headlined another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/29\/1089509352\/trump-white-house-phone-records-show-7-hour-gap-on-jan-6\">piece<\/a> in NPR after the taxpayer-funded outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Cam_Cawthorne\/status\/1509260505550053380?s=20&#038;t=fjLLu0VhpYMf7JBOE1IJ0g\">refused to spill ink <\/a>over Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop 18 months ago as not to \u201cwaste\u201d its \u201clisteners\u2019 and readers\u2019 time on stories that are just pure distractions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Late-night comedy shows even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/30\/arts\/television\/late-night-trump-phone-gap.html\">weighed in<\/a> on the new developments in the Jan. 6 investigation just as they <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2019\/12\/13\/schiffs-very-serious-dossier-intel-is-now-just-a-pee-tape-joke-to-him\/\">did the Steele Dossier\u2019s infamous pee tape hoax<\/a> while the Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/03\/30\/trump-burner-phone-incidents\/\">speculated<\/a> about the White House use of burner phones. <\/p>\n<p>Following a complete review of the purportedly missing call logs, however, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/31\/politics\/mystery-call-gap-trump-jan-6-white-house-phone-logs\/index.html\">reported<\/a> overnight in the early hours of Friday morning \u201cthere are no missing pages and the seven-hour gap is likely explained by use of White House landlines, White House cell phones and personal cell phones.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JusticeTristan\/status\/1509887992600559623?s=20&#038;t=fjLLu0VhpYMf7JBOE1IJ0g\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"859\" height=\"835\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CNN-White-House-Call-Logs.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CNN-White-House-Call-Logs.jpg 859w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CNN-White-House-Call-Logs-300x292-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/CNN-White-House-Call-Logs-768x747-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>CNN continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\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<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>The six pages of White House switchboard logs for January 6, 2021, are complete based on an official review of White House records, according to a source familiar with the matter. There are no missing pages and the seven-hour gap is likely explained by use of White House landlines, White House cell phones and personal cell phones that do not go through the switchboard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No small constituency of Twitter\u2019s blue check marks, however, was eager to raise hysteria over the apparent gap in records. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MAGAJew2\/status\/1509746447117426690?s=20&#038;t=fjLLu0VhpYMf7JBOE1IJ0g\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FPOyYzGXsAUnuBq?format=jpg&#038;name=large\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Legacy outlets with an open animus against the former Republican president have been quick to run interference for the Jan. 6 Committee since its inception, legitimizing the Democrats\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/06\/one-year-ago-today-a-new-hoax-was-born\/\">latest hoax<\/a> in the ashes of the Russiagate scandal and allegations of Ukrainian misconduct which fueled Trump\u2019s first impeachment. <\/p>\n<p>The Select Committee on Jan. 6, ostensibly created to probe the Capitol security failures while <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/01\/20\/only-10-percent-of-j6-committee-subpoenas-relate-to-the-capitol-riot\/\">issuing<\/a> less than 10 percent of its subpoenas on those associated with the turmoil, has its own history of fabricating evidence <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/15\/breaking-january-6-committee-admits-it-doctored-text-message-between-meadows-and-jordan\/\">again<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/16\/j6-committee-fabricates-more-evidence-says-trump-waited-187-minutes-to-call-for-peace-it-was-actually-25\/\">again<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/12\/21\/jan-6-committee-cooks-up-another-misleading-text-to-demonize-gop-colleagues\/\">again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems the mysterious gap in White House phone records on Jan. 6, 2021, which legacy media insisted was indicative of suspicious conduct within the Trump administration amid the riot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"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-1415002","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\/1415002","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415002\/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=1415002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}