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(Picture: AP)White House records show an unexplained gap of more than seven hours in the record of former President Donald Trump’s telephone calls on the day of the Capitol Hill riot, it has been reported.
Logs of calls handed over to the House of Representatives who are investigating the attack showed no calls made by Trump from 1.17 am to 6.54pm as his supporters stormed the Capitol on 6 January last year.
The 11 pages of records turned over to lawmakers showed Trump talked to at least eight people by phone before the gap and 11 afterwards, The Washington Post and CBS reported.
A spokesman for the House Select Committee investigating the Capitol riot declined comment.
Representatives for Trump could not be immediately reached for comment on the report.
At least seven deaths have been connected to the assault on the seat of the US government by thousands of Trump supporters.
The riot interrupted the certification of the result of the November 2020 president election which had been won by Republican Joe Biden.
They marched on the Capitol after the ex-president’s fiery speech at a rally repeating his false claim that his loss to Democratic President Biden was the result of fraud.
House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy last year described how he had urged Trump to call off his supporters and accept his defeat.
The House panel on Monday voted unanimously to seek “contempt of Congress” charges against Peter Navarro, a former trade adviser to Trump, and Daniel Scavino, who was a Trump deputy chief of staff.
More than 770 people from across the US have been arrested in connection with the Capitol riot.
