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What the Meadows texts reveal about how two Trump congressional allies lobbied the White House to overturn the election.
In the weeks between the 2020 election and the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, almost 100 text messages from two staunch GOP allies of then-President Donald Trump reveal an aggressive attempt to lobby, encourage and eventually warn the White House over its efforts to overturn the election, according to messages obtained by the House select committee and reviewed by CNN.
The texts, which have not been previously reported, were sent by Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. The text exchanges show that both members of Congress initially supported legal challenges to the election but ultimately came to sour on the effort and the tactics deployed by Trump and his team.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/poli...n-6-mark-meadows-overturn-election/index.html
IOW, Sen. Lee and Rep. Roy were happily in the car on the way to the bank robbery until they realized the guns were loaded with blanks, there was no viable plan to get in to the vault, and the getaway driver was a blind, crack head. Otherwise, they were good with supporting the most heinous betrayal of our democracy in this country's history.
Lee sent messages to Meadows imploring him to get Kraken head Sidney Powell in to see Trump cuz she was going to save the Union. He didn't know Sid was going to hold a disastrous, batshyte crazy press conference in which she claimed that the election had been stolen from Trump via “communist money” and rigged voting machines from Venezuela, with ties to the Clinton Foundation and George Soros. All she left out was that Biden ate babies. It was right about then when Mike probably wished he had never gotten in to the car.
In the weeks between the 2020 election and the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, almost 100 text messages from two staunch GOP allies of then-President Donald Trump reveal an aggressive attempt to lobby, encourage and eventually warn the White House over its efforts to overturn the election, according to messages obtained by the House select committee and reviewed by CNN.
The texts, which have not been previously reported, were sent by Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. The text exchanges show that both members of Congress initially supported legal challenges to the election but ultimately came to sour on the effort and the tactics deployed by Trump and his team.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/15/poli...n-6-mark-meadows-overturn-election/index.html
IOW, Sen. Lee and Rep. Roy were happily in the car on the way to the bank robbery until they realized the guns were loaded with blanks, there was no viable plan to get in to the vault, and the getaway driver was a blind, crack head. Otherwise, they were good with supporting the most heinous betrayal of our democracy in this country's history.
Lee sent messages to Meadows imploring him to get Kraken head Sidney Powell in to see Trump cuz she was going to save the Union. He didn't know Sid was going to hold a disastrous, batshyte crazy press conference in which she claimed that the election had been stolen from Trump via “communist money” and rigged voting machines from Venezuela, with ties to the Clinton Foundation and George Soros. All she left out was that Biden ate babies. It was right about then when Mike probably wished he had never gotten in to the car.
