Since people seem to have missed this one, unsealed in the Smith filing:

-Trump used a burner phone, routed through a foreign country to contact Michigan house speaker.

-He tried to pressure the speaker in this off book call.

-Speaker McCarthy knew about the burner phone line.

-The phone showed up as “Spam Risk Egypt” on caller ID.

  • dhork@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Plot twist: his phone died and he and to borrow Bob Menendez’s phone

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      8 days ago

      Exactly. A burner phone for him is someone else’s, and they never get it back.