'I have no idea what a burner phone is, to the best of my knowledge I have never even heard the term,' Trump said in a statement after the report was published by CBS News and the Washington Post.
Former President Donald Trump issued a statement Monday night in response tothat the Jan. 6 committee is now investigating whether Trump communicated that day through backchannels, phones of aides or disposable phones known as "burner phones" after White House logs that were turned over to the panel show a gap of more than seven hours between his calls.
A spokeswoman for the former president added that Trump had nothing to do with the records and had assumed any and all of his phone calls were recorded and preserved.White House logs that were turned over to the House select committee that is investigating the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol show no record of calls to or from Trump between 11:17 a.m. and 6:54 p.m. — a gap of seven hours and 37 minutes.
The records show that Trump had conversations with at least eight people in the morning and 11 people that evening. Among them was former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon — who had predicted on his podcast the day before that "all hell is going to break loose."
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