John Bolton, the previous nationwide safety adviser within the Trump administration, informed CBS Information on Tuesday that he had heard former President Donald Trump use the phrase "burner telephones" in a number of discussions and the previous president knew what it meant.
White Home data obtained by CBS Information and The Washington Submit present Trump didn't use his cellphone for over seven hours on January 6, 2021 through the assault on the U.S. Capitol, and the Home choose committee investigating the assault is wanting into whether or not he used a "burner cellphone," or a private disposable cellphone whose contacts couldn't be traced.
In response, the previous president stated he had by no means heard of the phrase "burner cellphone."
"I do not know what a burner cellphone is, to the most effective of my information I've by no means even heard the time period," Trump stated.
However Bolton stated he and Trump have spoken about how individuals have used "burner telephones" to keep away from having their calls scrutinized.
The White Home paperwork present no calls positioned to or by Trump for seven hours and 37 minutes — from 11:17 a.m. to six:54 p.m. — on the day when hundreds of his supporters descended on the U.S. Capitol, battled police and forcibly entered the constructing, prompting lawmakers and Vice President Mike Pence to flee for security.
The 11 pages of data — which include the president's official every day diary and the White Home switchboard name log — had been turned over by the Nationwide Archives earlier this yr to the Home choose committee investigating the January 6 assault.
The data present that Trump was energetic on the cellphone for a part of the day, documenting conversations that he had with at the least eight individuals within the morning and 11 folks that night. The hole additionally stands in stark distinction to the intensive public reporting about cellphone conversations he had with allies through the interval when the assault was underway.
A Trump spokesperson stated that Trump had nothing to do with the data and had assumed any and all of his cellphone calls had been recorded and preserved.
Caroline Linton contributed to this report.