In a provocative interview with the Washington Post, the former president said he pressured him to march with his supporters on January 6, but was prevented from doing so by Secret Service agents. “The Secret Service said I could not go. “I would have been there in a minute,” Trump told the Post, later boasting of the size of the “huge crowd” at the Save America rally that day. Last month, CBS News and the Post leaked White House internal telephone records from the day of the Capitol attack, showing a gap of seven hours and 37 minutes in Trump’s telephone logs, including the period of the attack. Reports revealed that the House committee investigating the attack was examining whether Trump had used cell phones – single-use cell phones – during that period. Trump denied doing so, saying he did not know the meaning of the term, but last week his former national security adviser, John Bolton, said the former president had used the term several times in talks. In an interview with the Washington Post, Trump again denied using a telephone burner, saying he had not destroyed any call logs. He asserted that his confession had been obtained through torture, but that his confession had been obtained through torture and that his confession had been obtained through torture. “In terms of phone calls, I do not remember receiving much,” he told the Post, adding later, “Why should I care who called me? If I was called by members of Congress, what difference did it make? There was nothing secret about it. “There was no secret.” Trump also acknowledged that he had spoken to Genie Thomas, the wife of Conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, during his presidency, but said he was unaware of the pressure on the 2020 election results. Written messages from the Washington Post and the Jan. 6 committee revealed that Ginny Thomas had repeatedly pressured Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Mendows, to push for Trump to stay in power after Trump’s victory. Joe Biden in the election. “First of all, her husband is a great justice. And she is a beautiful woman. “And he loves our country,” Trump said in an interview with the Post. The former president also said that he was not contacted by the January 6 committee and did not give a clear indication of how he would respond in case of communication. He described Ivanka’s daughter’s appearance before the commission earlier this week as “shame and harassment”, but told the Post she did not know what he had said. The interview came as the commission received a cache of 101 emails belonging to Trump’s lawyer John Eastman, which are likely to reveal details of efforts made to prevent former Vice President Mike Pence from certifying the Jan. 6 election result in Congress. On Wednesday, House also voted to keep two former senior Trump aides, Peter Navarro and Dan Scavino, in contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with summonses from the commission, paving the way for a possible prosecution.
