In a text message quoted by CNN and received from a congressional inquiry into the events surrounding the US Capitol attack, Trump Jr. told then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows “we have operational control” and “multiple paths ”to determine the result. “We have to do this, please read it and please send it to anyone who needs to see it because I’m not sure we do,” he told Meadows. Former White House Communications Officer Alice Farah told CNN that the texts reveal the “level of despair” between administrators and the campaign after the election and how officials “would use every level of federal government and legislatures. who were friendly with them to try to cling to power. “ U.S. Democrat Ted Lieu, who sits on the House Justice Committee, suggested the texts were evidence of a conspiracy. “Donald Trump Jr. was texting Mark Mendows on how to keep his father in power before the presidential race was even called. “Let it sink,” said the government monitoring team Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner called the allegations “treasonous.” “How long do we have to endure this open, treacherous crime by Trump and company before anyone is charged?” he said. The Laurence Tribe at Harvard Law School described the items as “smoking rifles.” Richard Payder, the White House’s chief ethics lawyer during the George W. Bush administration, said the texts were evidence of an “attempted coup.” “It belongs to the slammer!” he said on Twitter. The texts – which it is unclear if Mr. Meadows ever answered – show the former president’s eldest son outlining a strategy in which Republican-controlled legislatures and U.S. senators would determine the outcome of the Electoral College. to secure Mr. Trump’s victory. A statement from Trump’s lawyer, Jr. Alan Futterfas, confirmed the message to CNN, adding that the former president’s son “received many messages from supporters and others” and that “given the date, this message probably came from someone else and was forwarded.” The texts are among the most recent revelations from the investigation of the select committee of the Parliament for the events that led to the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, when a mob in favor of Trump invaded the halls of the Congress to stop the certification by Joe Biden Presidency. Another group of messages received by the commission shows Ginny Thomas – the conservative activist and wife of the current US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas – urging Mr Mendous to stop the “robbery” of the election by the “crime family” Biden “and to substantiate unfounded allegations of electoral fraud circulating among conspiracy theory communities on the Internet. In the months leading up to the election, before a single ballot was cast, Mr. Trump repeatedly argued that the result would be “set against him” and sought to undermine the validity of ballot papers by mail. His campaign, administration officials, the US Department of Justice and election officials and administrators, and multiple state-level audits across the United States found no evidence of widespread voter fraud. However, Trump Jr.’s text message on November 5, 2020 – two days after election day – describes a strategy that the former president’s aides, lawyers and other officials in his circle have tried to implement in the coming months, including false lost in swing states and relied on GOP-dominated state legislatures to block their states’ certification results and install illegal “alternate voters” to oust Mr. Trump for a second term. “In January, a judge in Georgia authorized a special judicial commission to investigate the former president’s election behavior in the state, including a call from Mr. Trump to state election officials to assist him.”findEnough votes to win the state.
