NY Times: House panel finds gaps in White House call logs from Capitol riots

A House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 storming of the US capitol has found gaps in White House call logs from that day, and believes calls then-US president Donald Trump is known to have made are missing, The New York Times reports.

The report says there is currently no evidence that logs were destroyed.

The committee is also checking whether Trump violated the Presidential Records Act, after boxes of presidential records were discovered at his Florida estate and a news report surfaced of him destroying documents while in office.

Oversight committee Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney says that she is “deeply concerned that these records were not provided to the National Archives and Records Administration promptly at the end of the Trump administration and they appear to have been removed from the White House.”

The Presidential Records Act mandates that records made by a sitting president and his staff are preserved in the archives, and an outgoing leader is responsible for turning over documents to the National Archives at the end of the term.

The Washington Post reported recently that Trump “tore up” data that was both “sensitive and mundane” and that the National Archives have referred the matter to the Justice Department to investigate whether Trump violated the Records Act.