This may be just the break the January 6th Committee needed
The January 6th Committee has obtained cooperating testimony from Mike Pence’s senior staff, brief but crucial cooperation from Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and documents from the likes of Kayleigh McEnany. This is on top of whatever cooperating witnesses they have that we don’t know about. This alone can be enough to break the case wide open against Donald Trump – you don’t need the cooperation of everyone – but you always want more.
That’s why it’s a big deal that the official White House call logs from January 6th don’t contain most of the phone calls that Donald Trump is known to have made that day. The New York Times is inexplicably characterizing this as bad news for the January 6th Committee. But in reality it could be what blows the whole thing open.
Investigators look for inconsistencies in places like call logs and phone records. Those kinds of inconsistencies are often a sign of an attempted coverup, which tells investigators precisely where to spend their time digging deeper.
Why aren’t Trump’s January 6th phone calls in the White House logs? Did he use his personal cellphone? If so, this gives the committee legal grounds to obtain his cellphone records (if it doesn’t already have them; the committee keeps periodically revealing that it’s several steps ahead of us). And as some legal experts have pointed out, if Trump had previously been using the official White House phone to call certain people, but on January 6th he switched over to using his personal cellphone to call those people, that could form the legal basis for consciousness of guilt when it comes to the committee’s inevitable criminal referral against Trump to the Justice Department.
