January 6 committee advisor says White House called rioter during Capitol insurrection

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The White House switchboard connected a phone call to a Capitol rioter while the attack on Congress was underway, a former adviser to the January 6 committee claims. Mr Riggleman, a former military intelligence officer and Republican congressman from Virginia, is the author of a forthcoming book which argues the January 6 committee needed to further investigate communication records like the alleged White House call. Speculation ran rampant when it was revealed numerous Secret Service text records from the moments before and during the Capitol riots were deleted in an agency-wide reset of phones, which took place after Congress requested the messages After January 6, the communications records of top Defence Department officials were also wiped. Meanwhile, the numerous messages from conservative activist Virginia Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, urging top Republicans and Trump associates to challenge the 2020 election results have also become fodder for the January 6 investigation.