A former White House official is lighting up a debate about whether former President Donald Trump used “burner phones” now that the House Jan. 6 committee is looking into the possible use of the disposable devices to hide his communications.
One lawmaker with the panel reviewing the Capitol riot told the Washington Post it is investigating a “possible cover-up” of the White House record on Jan. 6, 2021, as records obtained by the committee from the National Archives show a gap in Trump’s phone logs lasting seven hours and 37 minutes that day.
The report, by Watergate sleuth Bob Woodward and his colleague Robert Costa, lists burner phones, backchannels, and the use of aides’ phones as possible means by which Trump could have communicated with people that day.
John Bolton, a national security adviser under Trump, though not at the time of the Capitol riot, told the reporters he recalls Trump discussing on multiple occasions burner phones as a means of avoiding interested parties scrutinizing calls.
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So far, Trump is claiming ignorance.
“I have no idea what a burner phone is, to the best of my knowledge I have never even heard the term,” he said in a statement Monday night.
