CNN reported on the 26th that on the afternoon of the "Capital Hill Riot" in the United States on January 6 last year, a man who rushed into the Capitol Building received a mysterious call from White House . Details disclosed by
CNN show that the man who received the call was 26-year-old Rooney. Before the incident, he and two friends drove from New York to Washington to attend the rally and entered the Capitol at around 3 pm on January 6. The surveillance footage at that time showed that the three of them entered the Capitol together and took out their mobile phones to capture the scene. Call history shows that the White House landline dialed Roonek's cell phone at 4:34 pm that day, and the call lasted 9 seconds. At 4:17 on that day, then-President of the United States, Trump , posted a video on social media, telling the thugs in the Capitol, "Go home, we love you, you are special." After
, Rooneck was arrested for participating in the "Capital Hill riot". He claimed that he did not remember receiving this 9-second call and did not know any White House staff. It is worth noting that Rooney was sentenced to probation since then, but court documents did not mention that he had received a mysterious call from the White House.
The "mysterious phone call" of the White House was first disclosed by former Republican Rep. Rigman, a member of the United States, in an interview with CBS. Rigmann worked for a while on the Capitol Hill Riots Commission after resigning as Rep., but withdrew from the Commission in April this year. A spokesperson for the "Capital Hill Riot" investigation committee said that Rigman, as a committee investigative staff member, was not fully aware of the relevant investigation, and the committee's hearings and a large number of important investigations were carried out after he left office. Subsequently, members of the inquiry committee went through the media to downplay the importance of the White House's "mysterious phone call". In an interview, Democrat Lovegren, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Executive Committee, mentioned that all work matters of Rigman's resignation were followed up and some clues he left proved useless.
Sources who are familiar with the work of the "Capital Hill Riot" investigation committee revealed to CNN that the committee is still investigating the mysterious White House phone number, but no progress has been made so far, neither found who called nor the reason for the call.
The Guardian reported that Rigman is about to publish a book to disclose his lead in investigating the White House phone call in the "President Hill Riot" investigation committee. The manuscript obtained by the Guardian shows that in addition to the above mysterious phone calls, Rigman will also expose the call information between the White House and the American right-wing organizations before the Capitol Hill riots occurred in the book. ▲
Special correspondent of this newspaper Wang Pinzhi
