Why ‘burner phones’ are the talk of Washington – By Anthony Zurcher (BBC) / March 31, 2022
Many people had no idea what a burner phone was until crime drama The Wire popularised the term in the early 2000s. Now they’re the talk of Washington – here’s why.
It all started with White House logs published by CBS News and The Washington Post, Donald Trump spent more than seven hours on 6 January, as the US Capitol was being attacked by a mob of his supporters, calling… no one.
At least, not officially.
That runs directly counter to multiple reports and first-hand accounts of presidential conversations that took place that day – including with Vice-President Mike Pence, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville.
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