This is all about Donald Trump,” Tuberville said. “I’m an ally of Donald Trump, I love this country, the Democratic Party, the Biden administration, tried to destroy this county.”
The records enabled investigators to see basic information about the date and time of the calls but not the content of the communications, the senators said.
The data encompassed several days during the week of Jan. 6, 2021, when pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol in a bid to halt the certification of the election results.
The disclosure adds new detail to the since-shuttered investigation by the FBI and former special counsel Jack Smith into the steps Trump and allies took in the run-up to the Capitol riot to undo his election loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
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Trump was indicted in August 2023 on charges of conspiring to overturn the results, but the case was abandoned after Trump’s win the following year in light of a Justice Department legal opinion that says sitting presidents cannot face federal prosecution.
That document was dated Sept. 27, 2023, and lists the following Republican lawmakers as people whose records were apparently scrutinized: Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri, Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tuberville, Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee and Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.
Tuberville said senators were “told our phone numbers were breached but we do not know if any content was added in there.”
“I have nothing to hide, but Jack Smith he has a lot to hide. He’s trying to save his soul himself because he is deep into this and he was trying to find someway to get out of it once he started going after President Trump.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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