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Hugo Lowell in Washington DC

Revealed: Trump used White House phone for call on January 6 that was not on official log

Donald Trump on a phone call in the Oval Office of the White House on 27 August 2018.
Donald Trump on a phone call in the Oval Office of the White House on 27 August 2018. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP

Donald Trump used an official White House phone to place at least one call during the Capitol attack on January 6 last year that should have been reflected in the internal presidential call log from that day but was not, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

The former president called the phone of a Republican senator, Mike Lee, with a number recorded as 202-395-0000, a placeholder number that shows up when a call is incoming from a number of White House department phones, the sources said.

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