Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper downplayed the revelation that some Jan. 6 texts from top Trump administration defense officials were wiped, saying it was done as part of a “normal process” during the transition.
"My sense is that the headline is dramatic, but when you dig into it, you find that it’s probably a process that was just executing itself,” Esper said.
Esper added that the matter should be "looked into" but that it was likely "just a circumstance of people leaving government two weeks or so after January 6th and their phones being wiped and cleared for the next person to take them."that the Freedom of Information Act requests for Jan. 6 records had been filed "well before the transfer of administrations," Esper replied that "the bureaucracy largely handles that.
"I got to tell you from working five times in that building at the Pentagon, that is sometimes it takes a piece of paper request weeks, if not months, to get to the people that actually end up doing these things," Esper said, adding the he's "not jumping to any conclusions."
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