Hours ago, spokesman Jim Jordan was trying to do the same. Message from then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, a close ally and friend, around midnight on Jan. 5, Jordan offered a legal rationale for what President Donald Trump was publicly demanding – that Vice President Mike Pence play his role as President of the electorate, claiming in some way the power to reject voters from states won by Biden. Pence “should refer to all the votes he thinks are unconstitutional, as there are no votes at all,” Jordan wrote. “I’m pushing for that,” Meadows replied. “I’m not sure it will happen.” The text exchange, revealed in a court hearing by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 uprising, is a bunch of startling evidence that some Republicans in the House are deeply involved in Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power. The data provide new details about how, long before the Capitol attack, several GOP lawmakers were directly involved in Trump’s campaign to overturn the results of free and fair elections. It is a link that the members of the Parliamentary Committee of January 6 make explicitly as they prepare to start public hearings in June. The Republicans who conspired with Trump and the rioters who attacked the Capitol aligned themselves with their goals, if not the violent tactics of the mob, creating a convergence that almost overturned the peaceful transfer of power to the nation. “A significant number of House members and a small number of senators appear to have had more than a temporary role to play in what happened,” Bennie Thompson, a Democrat chair of the Jan. 6 committee, told the Associated Press last week. Since launching its inquiry last summer, the Jan. 6 commission has been slowly gaining new details about what lawmakers said and did in the weeks leading up to the uprising. Members asked three GOP lawmakers – Jordan of Ohio, Pennsylvania MP Scott Perry and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California – to testify voluntarily. Everyone has refused. Other lawmakers could be called in the coming days. The story goes on So far, the January 6 commission has refrained from issuing calls to lawmakers, fearing the consequences of such an emergency move. However, the lack of cooperation from legislators did not prevent the committee from receiving new information on their actions. The most recent court document, filed in response to a lawsuit filed by Meadows, contained excerpts from a handful of more than 930 interviews conducted by the January 6 commission. It includes information on a number of high-level meetings attended by nearly a dozen Republicans in the House of Representatives, where Trump allies flirted with ways to give him another term. Among the ideas: naming fake voter boxes in seven swing states, declaring martial law and confiscating voting machines. Efforts began in the weeks after the Associated Press named Biden president-elect. In early December 2020, several lawmakers attended a meeting in the White House’s office, where the president’s lawyers advised them that a plan to create an alternative voter list to declare Trump the winner was not “legally valid.” A lawmaker, Scott Perry, from Pennsylvania, backed the position. GOP spokesman Matt Gaetz of Florida and Louie Gohmert of Texas did the same, according to Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump White House aide. Despite the warning from the lawyer’s office, Trump’s allies moved on. On December 14, 2020, as well-elected Democratic voters in seven states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – met at state headquarters to vote, and fake voters rallied. They declared themselves legitimate voters and submitted fake Electoral College certificates that declared Trump the real winner of the presidential election in their states. These certificates from the “alternate voters” were then sent to Congress, where they were ignored. A majority of MEPs have since refused to take part in these efforts. Georgia MP Marjorie Taylor Greene testified in April that she did not recall talks with the White House or texts she sent to the Meadows about Trump’s invocation of martial law. Gohmert told the AP that he also did not remember being involved and was not sure he could help with the commission’s investigation. Georgia spokesman Jodi Hayes downplayed his actions, saying it was routine for members of the president’s party to enter and leave the White House to discuss various issues. Hice is now running for foreign minister in Georgia, a post responsible for state elections. Representative Andy Biggs from Arizona did not deny his public efforts to challenge the election results, but dismissed recent reports of his deep involvement. In a statement Saturday, Arizona lawmaker Paul Gossar reiterated his “serious” concerns about the 2020 election. Requests for comments from other legislators were not returned immediately. Less than a week after the meeting in early December at the White House, another plan emerged. In a meeting with members of the House Liberties Group and Trump White House officials, the debate turned to the decisive action they believed Pence could take on Jan. 6. Those who attended in person and in person, according to the committee, were Hice, Biggs, Gosar, Perry, Gaetz, Jordan, Gohmert, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Debbie Lesko of Arizona and Greene. , subsequently. an elected Member of Parliament. “How was the discussion?” the committee asked Hutchinson, who was frequently present at the meetings held in December 2020 and January 2021. “They felt he had the power to forgive me if my wording was not right, but – to send votes back to the states or voters back to the states,” Hutchinson said, referring to Pence. Asked if any of the lawmakers disagreed with the idea that the vice president had such power, Hutchinson said there was no objection from any of the Republican lawmakers. In another meeting on Pence’s possible role, Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis reunited with Perry and Jordan, as well as Green and Lauren Bobbert, a Republican who had also just been elected to the House of Commons. Colorado. Communication between lawmakers and the White House did not stop as January 6 approached. The day after Christmas – more than two months after the Biden election was announced – Perry texted Meadows with a countdown. “11 days until 1/6 and 25 days until the opening”, the text wrote. “We have to start!” Perry urged Meadows to call Jeffrey Clark, an assistant attorney general who has backed Trump’s efforts to challenge the election results. Perry has admitted that he introduced Clark to Trump. Clark clashed with Justice Department officials over his plan to send a letter to Georgia and other battlefield states challenging the election results and urging their state legislatures to investigate. It all culminated in a dramatic meeting at the White House, in which Trump considered appointing Clark as attorney general, to step down after senior Justice Department officials made it clear they would resign. Pressure from lawmakers and the White House on the Justice Department is among many areas of inquiry in the January 6 investigation. Representative Jamie Ruskin, a Democrat from Maryland, hinted that more revelations were coming. “As the mob broke our windows, bloodied our police and invaded the Capitol, Trump and his associates plotted to overthrow Biden’s majority in the electorate and overthrow our constitutional order,” Ruskin wrote on Twitter last year. week. When the results of the commission’s inquiry came out, Ruskin predicted: “America will see how the coup and the uprising converged.”
title: “Evidence Of The Gop S Involvement In Trump Election Plans Is Growing Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-05” author: “Louis Lewis”
Hours ago, spokesman Jim Jordan was trying to do the same. Message from then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, a close ally and friend, around midnight on Jan. 5, Jordan offered a legal rationale for what President Donald Trump was publicly demanding – that Vice President Mike Pence play his role as President of the electorate, claiming in some way the power to reject voters from states won by Biden. Pence “should refer to all the votes he thinks are unconstitutional, as there are no votes at all,” Jordan wrote. “I’m pushing for that,” Meadows replied. “I’m not sure it will happen.” The text exchange, revealed in a court hearing by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 uprising, is a bunch of startling evidence that some Republicans in the House are deeply involved in Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power. The data provide new details about how, long before the Capitol attack, several GOP lawmakers were directly involved in Trump’s campaign to overturn the results of free and fair elections. It is a link that the members of the Parliamentary Committee of January 6 make explicitly as they prepare to start public hearings in June. The Republicans who conspired with Trump and the rioters who attacked the Capitol aligned themselves with their goals, if not the violent tactics of the mob, creating a convergence that almost overturned the peaceful transfer of power to the nation. “A significant number of House members and some senators appear to have had more than a temporary role to play in what happened,” Bennie Thompson, a Democratic lawmaker chairing the Jan. 6 committee, told the Associated Press last week. Since launching its inquiry last summer, the Jan. 6 commission has been slowly gaining new details about what lawmakers said and did in the weeks leading up to the uprising. Members asked three GOP lawmakers – Jordan of Ohio, Pennsylvania MP Scott Perry and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California – to testify voluntarily. Everyone has refused. Other lawmakers could be called in the coming days. So far, the January 6 commission has refrained from issuing calls to lawmakers, fearing the consequences of such an emergency move. However, the lack of cooperation from legislators did not prevent the committee from receiving new information on their actions. The most recent court document, filed in response to a lawsuit filed by Meadows, contained excerpts from a handful of more than 930 interviews conducted by the January 6 commission. It includes information on a number of high-level meetings attended by nearly a dozen Republicans in the House of Representatives, where Trump allies flirted with ways to give him another term. Among the ideas: naming fake voter boxes in seven swing states, declaring martial law and confiscating voting machines. Efforts began in the weeks after the Associated Press named Biden president-elect. In early December 2020, several lawmakers attended a meeting in the White House’s office, where the president’s lawyers advised them that a plan to create an alternative voter list to declare Trump the winner was not “legally valid.” A lawmaker, Scott Perry, from Pennsylvania, backed the position. GOP spokesman Matt Gaetz of Florida and Louie Gohmert of Texas did the same, according to Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump White House aide. Despite the warning from the lawyer’s office, Trump’s allies moved on. On December 14, 2020, as well-elected Democratic voters in seven states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – met at state headquarters to vote, and fake voters rallied. They declared themselves legitimate voters and submitted fake Electoral College certificates that declared Trump the real winner of the presidential election in their states. These certificates from the “alternate voters” were then sent to Congress, where they were ignored. A majority of MEPs have since refused to take part in these efforts. Georgia MP Marjorie Taylor Greene testified in April that she did not recall talks with the White House or texts she sent to the Meadows about Trump’s invocation of martial law. Gohmert told the AP that he also did not remember being involved and was not sure he could help with the commission’s investigation. Georgia spokesman Jodi Hayes downplayed his actions, saying it was routine for members of the president’s party to enter and leave the White House to discuss various issues. Hice is now running for foreign minister in Georgia, a post responsible for state elections. Representative Andy Biggs from Arizona did not deny his public efforts to challenge the election results, but dismissed recent reports of his deep involvement. In a statement Saturday, Arizona lawmaker Paul Gossar reiterated his “serious” concerns about the 2020 election. Requests for comments from other legislators were not returned immediately. Less than a week after the meeting in early December at the White House, another plan emerged. In a meeting with members of the House Liberties Group and Trump White House officials, the debate turned to the decisive action they believed Pence could take on Jan. 6. Those who attended in person and in person, according to the committee, were Hice, Biggs, Gosar, Perry, Gaetz, Jordan, Gohmert, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Debbie Lesko of Arizona and Greene. , subsequently. an elected Member of Parliament. “How was the discussion?” the committee asked Hutchinson, who was frequently present at the meetings held in December 2020 and January 2021. “They felt he had the power to forgive me if my wording was not right, but – to send votes back to the states or voters back to the states,” Hutchinson said, referring to Pence. Asked if any of the lawmakers disagreed with the idea that the vice president had such power, Hutchinson said there was no objection from any of the Republican lawmakers. In another meeting on Pence’s possible role, Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis reunited with Perry and Jordan, as well as Green and Lauren Bobbert, a Republican who had also just been elected to the House of Commons. Colorado. Communication between lawmakers and the White House did not stop as January 6 approached. The day after Christmas – more than two months after the Biden election was announced – Perry texted Meadows with a countdown. “11 days until 1/6 and 25 days until the opening”, the text wrote. “We have to start!” Perry urged Meadows to call Jeffrey Clark, an assistant attorney general who has backed Trump’s efforts to challenge the election results. Perry has admitted that he introduced Clark to Trump. Clark clashed with Justice Department officials over his plan to send a letter to Georgia and other battlefield states challenging the election results and urging their state legislatures to investigate. It all culminated in a dramatic meeting at the White House, in which Trump considered appointing Clark as attorney general, to step down after senior Justice Department officials made it clear they would resign. Pressure from lawmakers and the White House on the Justice Department is among many areas of inquiry in the January 6 investigation. Representative Jamie Ruskin, a Democrat from Maryland, hinted that more revelations were coming. “As the mob broke our windows, bloodied our police and invaded the Capitol, Trump and his associates plotted to overthrow Biden’s majority in the electorate and overthrow our constitutional order,” Ruskin wrote on Twitter last year. week. When the results of the commission’s inquiry came out, Ruskin predicted: “America will see how the coup and the uprising converged.”
title: “Evidence Of The Gop S Involvement In Trump Election Plans Is Growing Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-10-30” author: “Michael Hippen”
Hours ago, spokesman Jim Jordan was trying to do the same. Message from then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, a close ally and friend, around midnight on Jan. 5, Jordan offered a legal rationale for what President Donald Trump was publicly demanding – that Vice President Mike Pence play his role as President of the electorate, claiming in some way the power to reject voters from states won by Biden. Pence “should refer to all the votes he thinks are unconstitutional, as there are no votes at all,” Jordan wrote. “I’m pushing for that,” Meadows replied. “I’m not sure it will happen.” The exchange of text, in a court hearing April 22 by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 uprising, is a bunch of startling evidence of the deep involvement of some House Republicans in Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power. A review of the evidence finds new details on how, long before the Capitol attack, several GOP lawmakers participated directly in Trump’s campaign to overturn the results of free and fair elections. It is a link that the members of the Parliamentary Committee of January 6 make explicitly as they prepare to start public hearings in June. The Republicans who conspired with Trump and the rioters who attacked the Capitol aligned themselves with their goals, if not the violent tactics of the mob, creating a convergence that almost overturned the peaceful transfer of power to the nation. “A significant number of House members and some senators appear to have had more than a temporary role to play in what happened,” Bennie Thompson, a Democratic lawmaker chairing the Jan. 6 committee, told the Associated Press last week. Since launching its inquiry last summer, the Jan. 6 commission has been slowly gaining new details about what lawmakers said and did in the weeks leading up to the uprising. Members asked three GOP lawmakers – Jordan of Ohio, Pennsylvania MP Scott Perry and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California – to testify voluntarily. Everyone has refused. Other lawmakers could be called in the coming days. So far, the January 6 commission has refrained from issuing calls to lawmakers, fearing the consequences of such an emergency move. However, the lack of cooperation from legislators did not prevent the committee from receiving new information on their actions. The most recent court document, filed in response to a lawsuit filed by Meadows, contained excerpts from a handful of more than 930 interviews conducted by the January 6 commission. It includes information on a number of high-level meetings attended by nearly a dozen Republicans in the House of Representatives, where Trump allies flirted with ways to give him another term. Among the ideas: naming fake voter boxes in seven swing states, declaring martial law and confiscating voting machines. Efforts began in the weeks after the Associated Press named Biden president-elect. In early December 2020, several lawmakers attended a meeting in the White House’s office, where the president’s lawyers advised them that a plan to create an alternative voter list to declare Trump the winner was not “legally valid.” A lawmaker, Scott Perry, from Pennsylvania, backed the position. GOP spokesman Matt Gaetz of Florida and Louie Gohmert of Texas did the same, according to Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump White House aide. Despite the warning from the lawyer’s office, Trump’s allies moved on. On December 14, 2020, as well-elected Democratic voters in seven states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – met at state headquarters to vote, and fake voters rallied. They declared themselves legitimate voters and submitted fake Electoral College certificates that declared Trump the real winner of the presidential election in their states. These certificates from the “alternate voters” were then sent to Congress, where they were ignored. A majority of MEPs have since refused to take part in these efforts. Georgia MP Marjorie Taylor Greene testified in April that she did not recall talks with the White House or texts she sent to the Meadows about Trump’s invocation of martial law. Gohmert told the AP that he also did not remember being involved and was not sure he could help with the commission’s investigation. Georgia spokesman Jodi Hayes downplayed his actions, saying it was routine for members of the president’s party to enter and leave the White House to discuss various issues. Hice is now running for foreign minister in Georgia, a post responsible for state elections. Representative Andy Biggs from Arizona did not deny his public efforts to challenge the election results, but dismissed recent reports of his deep involvement. In a statement Saturday, Arizona lawmaker Paul Gossar reiterated his “serious” concerns about the 2020 election. Requests for comments from other legislators were not returned immediately. Less than a week after the meeting in early December at the White House, another plan emerged. In a meeting with members of the House Liberties Group and Trump White House officials, the debate turned to the decisive action they believed Pence could take on Jan. 6. Those who attended in person and in person, according to the committee, were Hice, Biggs, Gosar, Perry, Gaetz, Jordan, Gohmert, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Debbie Lesko of Arizona and Greene, then an elected MP. “How was the discussion?” the committee asked Hutchinson, who was frequently present at the meetings held in December 2020 and January 2021. “They felt he had the power to forgive me if my wording was not right, but – to send votes back to the states or voters back to the states,” Hutchinson said, referring to Pence. Asked if any of the lawmakers disagreed with the idea that the vice president had such power, Hutchinson said there was no objection from any of the Republican lawmakers. In another meeting on Pence’s possible role, Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis reunited with Perry and Jordan, as well as Green and Lauren Bobbert, a Republican who had also just been elected to the House of Commons. Colorado. Communication between lawmakers and the White House did not stop as January 6 approached. The day after Christmas – more than two months after the Biden election was announced – Perry texted Meadows with a countdown. “11 days until 1/6 and 25 days until the opening”, the text wrote. “We have to start!” Perry urged Meadows to call Jeffrey Clark, an assistant attorney general who has backed Trump’s efforts to challenge the election results. Perry has admitted that he introduced Clark to Trump. Clark clashed with Justice Department officials over his plan to send a letter to Georgia and other battlefield states challenging the election results and urging their state legislatures to investigate. It all culminated in a dramatic meeting at the White House, in which Trump considered appointing Clark as attorney general, to step down after senior Justice Department officials made it clear they would resign. Pressure from lawmakers and the White House on the Justice Department is among many areas of inquiry in the January 6 investigation. Representative Jamie Ruskin, a Democrat from Maryland, hinted that more revelations were coming. “As the mob broke our windows, bloodied our police and invaded the Capitol, Trump and his associates plotted to overthrow Biden’s majority in the electorate and overthrow our constitutional order,” Ruskin wrote on Twitter last year. week. When the results of the commission’s inquiry came out, Ruskin predicted: “America will see how the coup and the uprising converged.”
title: “Evidence Of The Gop S Involvement In Trump Election Plans Is Growing Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-11” author: “Mark Davis”
The rioters who broke into the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, managed – at least temporarily – to delay the certification of Joe Biden’s election to the White House. Hours ago, spokesman Jim Jordan was trying to do the same. Message with then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, a close ally and friend, around midnight on Jan. 5, Jordan offered a legal rationale for what former U.S. President Donald Trump was publicly demanding – that then-Vice President Mike Pence, in his ceremonial role of chairing the election count, is somehow claiming the power to reject voters from Biden-winning states. Pence “should refer to all the votes he thinks are unconstitutional, as there are no votes at all,” Jordan wrote. “I’m pushing for that,” Meadows replied. “I’m not sure it will happen.” The exchange of text, in a court hearing April 22 by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 uprising, is a bunch of startling evidence of the deep involvement of some House Republicans in Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power. A review of the evidence finds new details on how, long before the Capitol attack, several GOP lawmakers participated directly in Trump’s campaign to overturn the results of free and fair elections. It is a link that the members of the Parliamentary Committee of January 6 make explicitly as they prepare to start public hearings in June. The Republicans who conspired with Trump and the rioters who attacked the Capitol aligned themselves with their goals, if not the violent tactics of the mob, creating a convergence that almost overturned the peaceful transfer of power to the nation. “A significant number of House members and a small number of senators appear to have had more than a temporary role to play in what happened,” Bennie Thompson, a Democrat chair of the Jan. 6 committee, told the Associated Press last week. Since launching its inquiry last summer, the Jan. 6 commission has been slowly gaining new details about what lawmakers said and did in the weeks leading up to the uprising. Members asked three GOP lawmakers – Jordan of Ohio, Pennsylvania lawmaker Scott Perry and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California – to testify voluntarily. Everyone has refused. Other lawmakers could be called in the coming days. So far, the January 6 commission has refrained from issuing calls to lawmakers, fearing the consequences of such an emergency move. However, the lack of cooperation from legislators did not prevent the committee from receiving new information on their actions. The most recent court document, filed in response to a lawsuit filed by Meadows, contained excerpts from a handful of more than 930 interviews conducted by the January 6 commission. It includes information on a number of high-level meetings attended by nearly a dozen Republicans in the House of Representatives, where Trump allies flirted with ways to give him another term. Among the ideas: naming fake voter boxes in seven swing states, declaring martial law and confiscating voting machines. Efforts began in the weeks after the Associated Press named Biden president-elect. In early December 2020, several lawmakers attended a meeting at the White House attorney’s office, where the president’s lawyers informed them that the plan to create an alternative voter list to declare Trump the winner was not “legally valid.” A lawmaker, Scott Perry, from Pennsylvania, backed the position. GOP spokesman Matt Gaetz of Florida and Louie Gohmert of Texas did the same, according to Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump White House aide. Despite the warning from the lawyer’s office, Trump’s allies moved on. On December 14, 2020, as well-elected Democratic voters in seven states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – met at their state headquarters to vote, the fake voters were elected. They declared themselves legitimate voters and submitted fake Electoral College certificates that declared Trump the real winner of the presidential election in their states. These certificates from the “alternate voters” were then sent to Congress, where they were ignored. A majority of MEPs have since refused to take part in these efforts. Georgia MP Marjorie Taylor Greene testified in April that she did not recall talks with the White House or texts she sent to the Meadows about Trump’s invocation of martial law. Gohmert told the AP that he also did not remember being involved and was not sure he could help with the commission’s investigation. Georgia spokesman Jodi Hayes downplayed his actions, saying it was routine for members of the president’s party to enter and leave the White House to discuss various issues. Hice is now running for foreign minister in Georgia, a post responsible for state elections. Representative Andy Biggs from Arizona did not deny his public efforts to challenge the election results, but dismissed recent reports of his deep involvement. In a statement Saturday, Arizona lawmaker Paul Gossar reiterated his “serious” concerns about the 2020 election. Requests for comments from other legislators were not returned immediately. Less than a week after the meeting in early December at the White House, another plan emerged. In a meeting with members of the House Liberties Group and Trump White House officials, the debate turned to the decisive action they believed Pence could take on Jan. 6. Those who attended in person and in person, according to the committee, were Hice, Biggs, Gosar, Perry, Gaetz, Jordan, Gohmert, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Debbie Lesko of Arizona and Greene, then an elected MP. “How was the discussion?” the committee asked Hutchinson, who was frequently present at the meetings held in December 2020 and January 2021. “They felt he had the power to forgive me if my wording was not right, but – to send votes back to the states or voters back to the states,” Hutchinson said, referring to Pence. Asked if any of the lawmakers disagreed with the idea that the vice president had such power, Hutchinson said there was no objection from any of the Republican lawmakers. In another meeting on Pence’s possible role, Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis reunited with Perry and Jordan, as well as Green and Lauren Bobbert, a Republican who had also just been elected to the House of Commons. Colorado. Communication between lawmakers and the White House did not stop as January 6 approached. The day after Christmas, Perry texted Meadows the countdown. “11 days until 1/6 and 25 days until the opening”, the text wrote. “We have to start!” Perry urged Meadows to call Jeffrey Clark, an assistant attorney general who has backed Trump’s efforts to challenge the election results. Perry has admitted that he introduced Clark to Trump. Clark clashed with Justice Department officials over his plan to send a letter to Georgia and other battlefield states challenging the election results and urging their state legislatures to investigate. It all culminated in a dramatic meeting at the White House, in which Trump considered appointing Clark as attorney general, to step down after senior Justice Department officials made it clear they would resign. Pressure from lawmakers and the White House on the Justice Department is among many areas of inquiry in the January 6 investigation. Representative Jamie Ruskin, a Democrat from Maryland, hinted that more revelations were coming. “As the mob smashed our windows, bloodied our police and stormed the Capitol, Trump and his associates plotted to overthrow Biden’s majority in the electorate and overthrow our constitutional order,” Ruskin wrote on Twitter last year. week. When the results of the commission’s inquiry came out, Ruskin predicted: “America will see how the coup and the uprising converged.”
title: “Evidence Of The Gop S Involvement In Trump Election Plans Is Growing Klmat” ShowToc: true date: “2022-11-21” author: “Patricia Hyland”
The rioters who broke into the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, managed – at least temporarily – to delay the certification of Joe Biden’s election to the White House. Hours ago, spokesman Jim Jordan was trying to do the same. Message from then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, a close ally and friend, around midnight on Jan. 5, Jordan offered a legal rationale for what President Donald Trump was publicly demanding – that Vice President Mike Pence play his role as President of the electorate, claiming in some way the power to reject voters from states won by Biden. Pence “should refer to all the votes he thinks are unconstitutional, as there are no votes at all,” Jordan wrote. “I’m pushing for that,” Meadows replied. “I’m not sure it will happen.” The exchange of text, in a court hearing April 22 by the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 uprising, is a bunch of startling evidence of the deep involvement of some House Republicans in Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power. A review of the evidence finds new details on how, long before the Capitol attack, several GOP lawmakers participated directly in Trump’s campaign to overturn the results of free and fair elections. It is a link that the members of the Parliamentary Committee of January 6 make explicitly as they prepare to start public hearings in June. The Republicans who conspired with Trump and the rioters who attacked the Capitol aligned themselves with their goals, if not the violent tactics of the mob, creating a convergence that almost overturned the peaceful transfer of power to the nation. “A significant number of House members and some senators appear to have had more than a temporary role to play in what happened,” Bennie Thompson, a Democratic lawmaker in the Jan. 6 committee, told the Associated Press last week. Since launching its inquiry last summer, the Jan. 6 commission has been slowly gaining new details about what lawmakers said and did in the weeks leading up to the uprising. Members asked three GOP lawmakers – Jordan of Ohio, Pennsylvania MP Scott Perry and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California – to testify voluntarily. Everyone has refused. Other lawmakers could be called in the coming days. So far, the January 6 commission has refrained from issuing calls to lawmakers, fearing the consequences of such an emergency move. However, the lack of cooperation from legislators did not prevent the committee from receiving new information on their actions. The most recent court document, filed in response to a lawsuit filed by Meadows, contained excerpts from a handful of more than 930 interviews conducted by the January 6 commission. It includes information on a number of high-level meetings attended by nearly a dozen Republicans in the House of Representatives, where Trump allies flirted with ways to give him another term. Among the ideas: naming fake voter boxes in seven swing states, declaring martial law and confiscating voting machines. Efforts began in the weeks after the Associated Press named Biden president-elect. In early December 2020, several lawmakers attended a meeting in the White House’s office, where the president’s lawyers advised them that a plan to create an alternative voter list to declare Trump the winner was not “legally valid.” A lawmaker, Scott Perry, from Pennsylvania, backed the position. GOP spokesman Matt Gaetz of Florida and Louie Gohmert of Texas did the same, according to Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Trump White House aide. Despite the warning from the lawyer’s office, Trump’s allies moved on. On December 14, 2020, as well-elected Democratic voters in seven states – Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – met at state headquarters to vote, and fake voters rallied. They declared themselves legitimate voters and submitted fake Electoral College certificates that declared Trump the real winner of the presidential election in their states. These certificates from the “alternate voters” were then sent to Congress, where they were ignored. A majority of MEPs have since refused to take part in these efforts. Georgia MP Marjorie Taylor Greene testified in April that she did not recall talks with the White House or texts she sent to the Meadows about Trump’s invocation of martial law. Gohmert told the AP that he also did not remember being involved and was not sure he could help with the commission’s investigation. Georgia spokesman Jodi Hayes downplayed his actions, saying it was routine for members of the president’s party to enter and leave the White House to discuss various issues. Hice is now running for foreign minister in Georgia, a post responsible for state elections. Representative Andy Biggs from Arizona did not deny his public efforts to challenge the election results, but dismissed recent reports of his deep involvement. In a statement Saturday, Arizona lawmaker Paul Gossar reiterated his “serious” concerns about the 2020 election. Requests for comments from other legislators were not returned immediately. Less than a week after the meeting in early December at the White House, another plan emerged. In a meeting with members of the House Liberties Group and Trump White House officials, the debate turned to the decisive action they believed Pence could take on Jan. 6. Those who attended in person and in person, according to the committee, were Hice, Biggs, Gosar, Perry, Gaetz, Jordan, Gohmert, Mo Brooks of Alabama, Debbie Lesko of Arizona and Greene, then an elected MP. “How was the discussion?” the committee asked Hutchinson, who was frequently present at the meetings held in December 2020 and January 2021. “They felt he had the power to forgive me if my wording was not right, but – to send votes back to the states or voters back to the states,” Hutchinson said, referring to Pence. Asked if any of the lawmakers disagreed with the idea that the vice president had such power, Hutchinson said there was no objection from any of the Republican lawmakers. In another meeting on Pence’s possible role, Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis reunited with Perry and Jordan, as well as Green and Lauren Bobbert, a Republican who had also just been elected to the House of Commons. Colorado. Communication between lawmakers and the White House did not stop as January 6 approached. The day after Christmas, Perry texted Meadows the countdown. “11 days until 1/6 and 25 days until the opening”, the text wrote. “We have to start!” Perry urged Meadows to call Jeffrey Clark, an assistant attorney general who has backed Trump’s efforts to challenge the election results. Perry has admitted that he introduced Clark to Trump. Clark clashed with Justice Department officials over his plan to send a letter to Georgia and other battlefield states challenging the election results and urging their state legislatures to investigate. It all culminated in a dramatic meeting at the White House, at which Trump considered appointing Clark as attorney general, only to step down after senior Justice Department officials made it clear they would resign. Pressure from lawmakers and the White House on the Justice Department is among many areas of inquiry in the January 6 investigation. Representative Jamie Ruskin, a Democrat from Maryland, hinted that more revelations were coming. “As the mob broke our windows, bloodied our police and invaded the Capitol, Trump and his associates plotted to overthrow Biden’s majority in the electorate and overthrow our constitutional order,” Ruskin wrote on Twitter last year. week. When the results of the commission’s inquiry came out, Ruskin predicted: “America will see how the coup and the uprising converged.” Our Morning and Afternoon Newsletters are compiled by Globe editors, giving you a brief overview of the day’s most important headlines. Register today.
