The people to whom Trump talked on the day of the Capitol riot

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Stephen K. Bannon, former adviser and podcast host. (Logged calls: 8:37 a.m. for about two minutes; 10:19 p.m. for about eight minutes)

“Tomorrow it’s game day,” Bannon said. “So strap in. Let’s get ready.”

On Jan. 6 itself, Bannon was seen at the Willard Hotel, where Trump’s closest advisers were gathering to try to pressure members of Congress to reject the cast electoral college votes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/29/who-trump-talked-day-capitol-riot/
 
Rudy Giuliani, attorney. (8:42 a.m., four minutes; 9:41 a.m., seven minutes)

Giuliani is probably the best-known of Trump’s legal team and played a key role in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 riot. There are only two recorded calls between Giuliani and Trump, which may be in part because Giuliani was at the rally on the morning of Jan. 6, where he would have seen the president face-to-face.

As the riot unfolded, Giuliani was at the Willard Hotel. He left at least one message for a senator, Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), asking that the final count of electoral college votes be delayed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/29/who-trump-talked-day-capitol-riot/
 
Josh Hawley, senator from Missouri. (White House called; called Trump without recorded call back)

Hawley was the first Republican senator to announce his intent to object to the submitted electoral college votes on Jan. 6 — an objection he maintained even after the riot. The White House contacted him in the morning, and the call logs record that he had tried to reach Trump by the early evening, but no conversation is logged.
 
Jim Jordan, representative from Ohio’s 4th Congressional District. (9:24 a.m., 11 minutes)

For months, Jordan faced questions about his contacts with Trump on Jan. 6. In August, he acknowledged that he and the president had spoken more than once on that day. He told Politico at the time that he believed one of the calls occurred after legislators had been moved to a secure location during the riot — meaning that he spoke with Trump during the window for which no call logs exist.
 
Kevin McCarthy, House majority leader. (Reported; not in log)

McCarthy is known to have spoken with Trump on the day of the riot, after legislators had been evacuated. In January, he told reporters that the conversation “was very short, that he was advising the president what was happening” in the building. To Republicans at the time, though, he offered more detail.

“I guess these people” — that is, the rioters — “are more upset about the election than you are,” Trump told the House leader, according to those with whom McCarthy shared details of the call at the time.

This call also falls into the period that isn’t captured in the White House logs.
 
So? Look, the people in charge are looking like Stalinites with this bullshit.

This is still America and it's not going to go the way they think it's going to go.
 
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