Investigators have learned a great deal about the Jan. 6 attack and the events leading up to the insurrectionist violence, but as we’ve discussed, it’s hard not to wonder about the materials that are conveniently unavailable.
For example, Secret Service text messages from Jan. 5 and Jan. 6 have apparently been erased under controversial circumstances that are now the subject of a criminal investigation. There are also questions surrounding gaps in the White House call logs.
At a recent Jan. 6 committee hearing, we learned the Presidential Daily Diary also “contains no information from the period between 1:21 p.m. and 4:03 p.m.” the day of the assault on the Capitol.
One of my personal favorites was the reporting on then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows literally setting fire to papers in his office after a meeting with a Republican congressman who was assisting with Team Trump’s anti-election schemes.
Last week, we learned that text messages from Donald Trump’s top appointees at the Department of Homeland Security — also from the period leading up to Jan. 6 — are also missing. (According to a Washington Post report, the Trump-appointed DHS inspector general “did not press the department leadership at that time to explain why they did not preserve these records, nor seek ways to recover the lost data.” He also failed to notify Congress.)
Yesterday, as CNBC reported, the list got a little longer.








