Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), who serves on the Jan. 6 Select Committee, on Sunday said the panel views the revelation of former President Trump’s seven-hour gap in his Jan. 6 White House call logs as a development that seems “suspiciously tailored to the heart of the events” surrounding the deadly Capitol insurrection.
…Trump’s seven-hour gap in his Jan. 6 White House call logs as a development that seems “suspiciously tailored to the heart of the events” surrounding the deadly Capitol insurrection.
No shit.
Isn’t this the same argument used by creationists for intelligent design?
Suspicious is being generous. I’d’ve said “damning”.
Well, Donnie is incompetent in many, many ways, but when it comes to corruption, obfuscation, prevarication, diversion, and illegal behavior, he is consistently competent, if one can call it that. Better said, he has no redeeming value.
“Is there a chance here that was sort of large-scale incompetence rather than conspiracy?”
Incompetence, Donnie and his ‘best people’ are inseparable.
Such negligence, however, doesn’t seem to be a trait of the diarist, who appears to be a professional employed by the government and not someone imported by the administration ("…the President’s Diarist–an employee of the National Archives, not the White House–creates the record of his days in office…") https://www.whitehousehistory.org/the-presidents-daily-diary .
This 7 hour gap is painfully nakedly obvious as to its cause. We all know the answer .
But history and the judicial courts and the court of public perception … much like a college essay exam … require the documentation of the proof … show, step by step, how you arrived at your answer …
So every concealed call must be identified and documented… every possible text, every chat , every communication…And then hang the seditionious bastards.
Raskin is being careful obviously, but that’s about as close as you can get to screaming “it’s a coverup!” right now. And, it’s just way too suspicious to be anything else…incompetence would be the entire day’s logs are lost, or it would show the same kinds of gaps on random days they checked. You can bet that they are doing everything they can to construct the day’s events, and the gaps that remain will be the best indication of who was involved and what the conspiracy really looked like.
And, the “they were incompetent” angle comes in that they didn’t fill in something during the gap…if they were smart they would have put in some kind of filler that was reasonable. But, of course, the only reasonable thing would have been calls to the National Guard to get out there and stop it, and to anyone he knew who had influence over the groups sacking the Capitol. It’s better for them, politically, to have nothing at all instead of the few calls we know about and nothing aimed at the government agencies that would have put a stop to the insurrection. The committee really needs to find vulnerable Trump people who know what happened and can speak freely…if they can do that the entire house of cards falls over.
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I think they might be on to something 
Trump’s presidential diarist testified to the Jan. 6 Select Committee last month that the then-President’s White House officials provided scant details of Trump’s calls and visits in the days leading up to the insurrection.
Did the usual flow of information to the presidential diarist resume after January 6th, or did it remain cut off for the rest of his term (ended Jan 20th)?
Wake me up when we get there. 
Put the 7-hour gap together with the Diarist’s testimony that the withholding of information started days earlier, and I think you can draw a pretty firm conclusion that this wasn’t the result of the normal level of Trump incompetence.
The diarist can record only the information he is given. The “incompetence” (or other behaviors one might imagine) would be upstream of him.
I think ‘flagrant’ might be a better word.
In Donnie’s time in government, I don’t think there was much he was part of that didn’t attract inquiries.
Unlike, say, Tricky Dick, who came closer to getting away with it.
No. We have actual proof these events took place.
And have there been other times during the Trump maladministration where there is an unexplained gap in listing phone calls?
That’s an excellent question and it would be extremely useful to know the answer.
I will assume those questions were asked during the diarist’s testimony to the committee.
Well it certainly points very clearly to his foreknowledge of how that riot was going to go.