Text Message Scandals
The illegal deletion of Secret Service and Pentagon text messages is a growing public scandal that appears to be part of a January 6 Insurrection cover-up.
Text messages have exposed lies and hypocrisy of Republicans close to Donald Trump. Trump's DHS inspector general attempted to "cover-up" deleted Secret Service text messages from the attack on the Capitol. In an unexpected twist, The January 6 committee has requested phone data recovered from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones who helped organize Trump's Stop the Steal rally.
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Well, the Cover-Up Sure Isn’t Making January 6 Look Any Better, The Atlantic | 8/3/2022
By David A. Graham
Why have so many messages from top government officials disappeared?
Video: Why Alex Jones' Phone May Answer Jan. 6 Questions That Alex Jones Would Not, MSNBC | 8/5/2022
Ali Velshi looks at why the January 6th investigation is interested in the contents of Alex Jones' phone that were mistakenly given to lawyers of a Sandy Hook family suing Jones, particularly after Jones claims he asserted the Fifth Amendment over one hundred times when he interviewed with the investigation in January.