Media’s ‘7-hour Gap’ Story in White House Logs Turns Out to be Hoax: CNN

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Media’s ‘7-hour Gap’ Story in White House Logs Turns Out to be Hoax: CNN

Joel B. Pollak 1 Apr 2022

The establishment media were abuzz this week with stories about a “seven-hour gap” 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.

Documents turned over to the United 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.

“A 7-hour gap in Trump’s calls evokes a missing spot on Nixon’s tapes,” the Washington Post reported breathlessly, recalling the 18-minute gap in President Richard Nixon’s White House tapes that ultimately led him to resign his presidency in 1974.

The Post‘s left-wing opinion columnist Greg Sergeant suggested the absent Trump phone logs were “worse than Watergate”:

    In another bid for the “Worse than Watergate” files, it turns out there is a seven-hour gap in Donald Trump’s 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’s calls on Jan. 6, 2021, from just after 11 a.m. to shortly before 7 p.m.

    That means there’s a big black hole in the record when it comes to Trump’s conversations throughout the period during which the mob assaulted the U.S. Capitol and violence raged over several hours.

    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.

Sargent speculated that the reluctance of Trump aides to cooperate with the one-sided January 6 probe added fuel to the story.

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.

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[Wingnut]

CNN reported this?  They must be scared of what their new boss will do when he is installed.

[Right_in_Virginia]

CNN reported this?  They must be scared of what their new boss will do when he is installed.

No worries, the damage is done.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald

Bob Woodward spent 8 minutes hyping it on CNN. Slate called it "THE CLEAREST EVIDENCE YET OF TRUMP'S CRIMINAL INTENT." Every blue-check liberal journalist account you'd expect hyped it for days. Was on the cover of the Post, on top of Twitter for days, with millions believing it.



10:02 AM · Apr 1, 2022   Twitter Web App

[Right_in_Virginia]

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald

The NEW WATERGATE!! -- there's a 7-hour gap in Trump's WH phone records on January 6 -- trended for days and was declared by liberals outlets from CNN to Slate to be the worst crime yet. It was "broken" by CBS and the WashPost.

You'll be shocked to know it was a total hoax.

9:59 AM · Apr 1, 2022   Twitter Web App

[catfish1957]

Glenn Greenwald
@ggreenwald

Bob Woodward spent 8 minutes hyping it on CNN. Slate called it "THE CLEAREST EVIDENCE YET OF TRUMP'S CRIMINAL INTENT." Every blue-check liberal journalist account you'd expect hyped it for days. Was on the cover of the Post, on top of Twitter for days, with millions believing it.

Woodward?  For someone who has ridden his Watergate fame for 50 years now, and nothing else, he sure has made Nixon look like a piker when it comes to corruption, and lack of honor and honesty.

When the SHTF, I hope he is in the first wave that the pitchforkers go after.

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23 January 6 / Re: White House records reportedly show seven-hour gap in Trump's phone logs
« on: March 29, 2022, 13:35:38 »
Two unidentified sources told the Post ...

yeah right ... sure they did
You cannot fool all of the people all of the time.

[Kamaji]

Just like everything else.