Mark Meadows Exchanged Texts With 34 Members Of Congress About Plans To Overturn The 2020 Election - 2022-12-12

Mark Meadows Exchanged Texts With 34 Members Of Congress About Plans To Overturn The 2020 Election December 12, 2022, Hunter Walker, Talking Points Memo

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White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows exchanged text messages with at least 34 Republican members of Congress as they plotted to overturn President Trump's loss in the 2020 election.

Those messages are being fully, publicly documented here for the first time.

The texts are part of a trove Meadows turned over to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack that was obtained by TPM. For more information about the story behind the text log and our procedures for publishing the messages, read the introduction to this series. Meadows' exchanges shed new light on the extent of congressional involvement in Trump's efforts to spread baseless conspiracy theories about his defeat and his attempts to reverse it. The messages document the role members played in the campaign to subvert the election as it was conceived, built, and reached its violent climax on Jan. 6, 2021. The texts are rife with links to far-right websites, questionable legal theories, violent rhetoric, and advocacy for authoritarian power grabs.

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