So it turns out that there is a seven and a half hour gap in the White House phone records on the day of the insurrection.
I was a Watergate fan. The summer the hearings were taking place I was lifeguarding at Indian Well State Park in Shelton, and when the hearings were taking place I’d use my break time in our sleeping quarters to watch as much of the hearings as I could. Believe it or not, there were honest Republicans on the committee who actually were interested in uncovering the truth!
Those were the days.
Anyway, I do recall that when the 18½ minute gap in the White House tapes came to light, the press couldn’t get enough of it. It wasn’t proof of guilt, as there could actually have been an innocent explanation, but no one quite believed that to be the case. After all, Nixon had already been found guilty by most of the American public. That was back in the day when we lacked a propaganda network and social media that prefer dollars to democracy.
Trump’s gap far exceeds Nixon’s, and is far more convincing evidence of guilt. There is no innocent explanation. Either a conscious decision was made not to keep records of Trump’s criminal behavior (for all of us non-Q folks know he was engaging in criminal behavior) or a conscious decision was made later to destroy the evidence. This is all very convenient for both Trump and his multiple co-conspirators.
Now’s the time for an easy prediction: the press will spend more time obsessing about Biden’s “gaffe!”, which wasn’t particularly gaffy (just made up that word) than it will on Trump’s 7½ hour gap, which will be quickly forgotten. At least by the media. The January 6th committee may have something to say about it, and here’s hoping the DOJ is on the case, since it’s possible the American people will deliver the House into the hands of the insurrectionists in November. Yet another thing that would not have happened in Watergate days.
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