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Star Member Nevilledog (34,947 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216552831Elie Mystal: Why Does the Media Care More About "the Slap" Than Trump's Missing Call Logs?https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-missing-call-log/Earlier this week, The Washington Post broke the news that there is a 457-minute gap in the presidential phone logs for January 6, 2021, the day of the Trump-inspired attack on the Capitol. The White House keeps a record of every person the president talks to (remember, the president is supposed to be a public employee, not the king of white supremacists). The January 6 records show that Trump took eight calls in the morning and 11 in the evening, but from 11:17 AM until 6:54 PM, there is a big, stinking gap. We know Trump took phone calls during this time: It’s already been reported that he called Senator Mike Lee and spoke to Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy. But the full extent of Trump’s activities are missing from the official record during arguably the most important time of his failed presidency.Unnamed sources now claim that a giant hole in Trump’s call records is not “unusual” because the former president used the White House switchboard while in the residence, but not when he was in the Oval Office. I find it amazing that Trump’s spin on this is that there are four years of unlogged phone calls (Russia, if you’re listening) instead of seven hours. But even if that’s the case, the seven hours on the day of the coup seem appropriate for heightened scrutiny. Pinning down the president’s timeline on the day his forces attacked the Capitol would seem to me to be job No. 1 of federal investigators, and investigative journalists.But nobody cares. There are still a lot of people who can remember when this country ground to a halt over an 18-minute gap in Richard Nixon’s recordings of his taped conversations. Here, we have 457 minutes, about seven-and-a-half hours, during which the very existence of phone calls have been wiped from the record. But for some reason this was a one-day story for mainstream American media. To put this in context: There have been more articles, news segments, think pieces, and investigative freaking reports on the details of a movie star hitting a comedian at the Academy Awards than there have been about whom the president of the United States was talking to during an attempted coup against our government.Reading mainstream US newspapers this week has been a case study in why America is failing. In addition to reams of coverage on “the Slap,” there have been multiple stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop—an entire “controversy” generated by the same media weakness that produced endless coverage of “her e-mails.” There has been breathless coverage of Madison Cawthorn’s titillating allegations of cocaine and sex orgies that he claims to have been invited to. There’s even been coverage of the Republican rebuke of Cawthorn’s claims, which is interesting because there’s been almost no follow-up on how Republicans are reacting to the seven-hour gap in White House phone logs. Among Republicans, only John Bolton took a break from (I assume) lathering himself in oils as an aide reads him the projected death tolls in a World War III scenario to say that he thinks Trump is lying about his knowledge of burner phones.*snip*
Bonx (1,807 posts) 1. Official review of Trump phone logs from January 6 finds record is complete"According to multiple sources familiar with Trump's phone behavior and the White House switchboard records, the January 6 log reflects Trump's 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."
Star Member Nevilledog (34,947 posts) 3. I feel confident we'll find out that's a lie.CNN was wrong to post Trump propaganda as truth.
Star Member brooklynite (77,001 posts) 2. Why do people here care more?Compare the number of threads.....As for me, I'd guess that there's less discussion of Trump's phone logs because there hasn't been some new revelation about Trump's phone log.
Star Member Kid Berwyn (8,229 posts) 4. I care.Treasonous turd got help from Russia to get elected. When tossed by voters, not only does he refuse to concede, he leads a conspiracy to overthrow the government.Corporate McPravda, go **** yourselves.
Sadly for those still desperately trying to see Trump locked up for something (or at least stop him from coming back and retaking the White House), the explanation for this “mystery” won’t require any meetings with Deep Throat in a parking garage. The call logs for the President are generated based on calls that go through the White House switchboard. It’s a system that was established back in the 1960s, long before the era of cellphones and other modern communications technology or social media. So the record only reflects calls that go through the main switchboard.On a typical day for Trump, there were records of calls beginning shortly after he got up early in the morning. Those were calls that he made in the residence on a landline and the landline is tied into the switchboard. But once he moved from the residence to the Oval Office, as with many presidents before him, Trump rarely used the landline and he generally didn’t even place his own calls. He would ask someone else to place a call for him and then be patched in when the person was on the line. He also asked aides to place calls via cellphone, either his or their own, taking the phone from them when the other party was on the line.To their credit, CNN spoke to a former staffer who worked in the Oval Office with Barack Obama. He reported that Obama did the exact same thing, having others place his calls and then being patched in. So if you examined Obama’s call logs during similar periods of time you would see a similar gap on most days.
These people are absolutely obsessed with Donald Trump. I so hope he can be reelected in 2024 just to watch the Liberals cry.
Because the black on black violence of "the slap" actually happened. ...
Star Member Nevilledog (34,947 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216552831Elie Mystal: Why Does the Media Care More About "the Slap" Than Trump's Missing Call Logs?https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-missing-call-log/
