What did Donald Trump claim about investigations on 6 Feb 2020?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
But they deleted all of their e-mails and text messages. … They illegally deleted.
The missing Strzok–Page texts were a gap in the FBI's text-collection software, not a deletion: the Justice Department inspector general recovered thousands of them from their FBI phones and found the gaps were not intentional. The special counsel phones they returned were wiped by the department's routine reset.
The Justice Department's inspector general recovered 'thousands of text messages within the period of the missing text messages, December 15, 2016 through May 17, 2017' from Strzok's and Page's FBI phones, which had not been produced 'due to technical problems with its text message collection tool', and 'did not find that the gaps in collection were intentional on the part of the FBI or any FBI personnel'. The iPhones they used at the Special Counsel's Office had been reset to factory settings after their return; the Department 'routinely resets mobile devices to factory settings when the device is returned from a user' (DOJ OIG, Report of Investigation: Recovery of Text Messages From Certain FBI Mobile Devices, December 2018).
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- Remarks on the conclusion of the Senate impeachment trial, East Room of the White House.
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