For Probably Totally Innocent Reasons, the Defense Department Also Deleted the January 6 Text Messages of Top Trump Officials

Last month we learned that the U.S. Secret Service had purged a whole bunch of its January 6 text messages in the days after the attack. Given that both (1) the organization had been ordered to preserve them (2) it takes serious effort to permanently delete any electronic communications, let alone ones that are government records and (3) said communications could presumably shed a whole bunch of light on what was going on the day Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the Capitol and put then vice president Mike Pence’s life in grave danger, the whole thing seemed… Read Full Article