Jan. 6 Panel Weighs Subpoena of Trump’s Personal Phone Records
Billy House - Yesterday 5:57 PM
(Bloomberg) -- The chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol said the panel is considering subpoenaing former President Donald Trump’s personal phone records to help fill-in a more than seven-hour gap in White House telephone logs on the day of the riot.
“All that’s up for discussion,” Representative Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrats, said. He said there are “some other options” as well that he refused to detail.
White House logs showing no calls to or from Trump from a little after 11 a.m. until almost 7 p.m. “are not consistent based on other information the committee has” on communications he had with lawmakers and others, Thompson said.
The select committee is focusing on whether Trump or any of his aides and advisers had a role in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election or organizing the events that preceded the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters as Congress was certifying the Electoral College results. A subpoena of Trump’s phone records likely would trigger a protracted legal battle with the former president.
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