What kind of “president” immediately reaches for a private, unofficial phone when the U.S. Capitol is under violent assault and he feels the need to keep up to speed? David Frum, writing for
the Atlantic, states the obvious: one who is guilty as hell of something and wants to keep others from finding out what that “something” is.
Seriously, a
burner phone? That’s something drug dealers and other criminals use. Or cheating spouses. But as much as the latter may have been one of Trump’s preoccupations, having a Secret Service detail shadowing him probably put a damper on it. He clearly wasn’t trying to hook up with another porn star that afternoon of Jan. 6. He had other things to think about.