Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, on Saturday gave former President Donald Trump's attorneys and House impeachment managers a log from his cell phone account showing, while the Jan. 6 riot was unfolding, he had gotten a call from the White House lasting for four minutes.
The document shows the Lee got the call at 2:26 p.m. ET, reports The Washington Post, quoting a Lee spokesman.
Lee has said Trump called his phone in error, believing he was calling freshman Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala.
The phone log shows Lee got the call from a main White House switchboard numbers, 202-395-0000, 13 minutes after then-Vice President Mike Pence was rushed from the Senate floor at 2:13 p.m. ET, when Senate action to certify the Electoral College votes for President Joe Biden was halted and protesters were storming the Capitol.
Lee said he handed his phone to Tuberville when he realized Trump was looking for the other senator.
Tuberville has said, during their short talk, he told Trump that Pence had been evacuated from the Senate floor. The former president's attorneys claim, "at no time" had the president been informed Pence was in danger.
The attorneys also complained, accounts of the call were "hearsay."
Some senators, though, have focused on a tweet Trump posted at 2:24 p.m. ET on the day of the riots. Pence had only been evacuated from the Senate chambers 11 minutes earlier.
The vice president had refused to use his role presiding over the confirmation vote to overturn election results. Trump also attacked Pence in a speech to a crowd at The Ellipse that morning, before the rioting started.
Sources close to Pence said Trump never called to ask about his vice president's situation, and the two men did not speak again for five days after the incidents at the Capitol.
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