Donald Trump Jr. sent a message to Mark Meadows with ideas for overturning the 2020 election, CNN reported. “We have many paths. We control them all,” read the text message sent on November 5, 2020. The messages are in the possession of the committee on January 6th.
Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of former President Donald Trump, has sent a message to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to overturn the results of 2020 before most major news networks call elections, according to a CN report published on Friday. “It’s very simple,” Trump Jr. wrote in a text message to Meadows on November 5, 2020, two days before the major news networks declared Joe Biden the winner. “We have multiple paths, we control them all.” The messages are part of a series of files being reviewed by a select parliamentary committee investigating the January 6 siege of the Capitol, CNN reported. Trump Jr.’s lawyer has denied that the message was written by him. “After the election, Don received a lot of messages from supporters and others. Given the date, this message probably came from someone else and was forwarded,” Alan S. Futerfas told CNN. Trump Jr.’s texts promoted a version of lawyer John Eastman’s six-point plan to overthrow the 2020 election at a joint congressional hearing on Jan. 6, 2021. Eastman had suggested, among other legally unfounded theories, that Congress could reject Biden voter lists at the joint session and instead count those submitted by Trump supporters in seven pro-Democratic states. The certificates, however, had no legal force or validity, as they had not been signed by a government official, such as governor or foreign minister, and were therefore not included in any of the joint congressional hearings of January 6, 2021 for counting votes. Legal expert Matthew Seligman told Insider in a January 2022 interview that fake voters had as much legal influence as “a bunch of people sitting in an Arby’s across from the Capitol building and writing on a napkin.” The story goes on The Jan. 6 selection committee and the Justice Department are now investigating fraudulent voters. Trump Jr.’s texts also referred to another of Eastman’s ideas for overthrowing the election, which was for Congress to reject several voter lists so that neither Trump nor Biden had a 270-vote majority, forcing a possible election. where the House of Representatives would vote by state delegation to elect the president. “Republicans control 28 states, Democrats control 22 states,” Trump Jr. said. “Trump is winning once again.” “Either we have a vote that we control and WE WIN OR it will be led to Congress on January 6, 2021,” said Trump Jr. Trump Jr. also suggested that if none of these plans worked, Congress could simply vote to reinstate Trump for a second term, which is not possible under any existing US election law. “We have operational control Total leverage,” Trump Jr. wrote in a message to Meadows. “Moral High Ground POTUS should start the 2nd period now.” A California federal judge who ruled against Eastman in an effort to protect the files from the Jan. 6 commission also found it more likely that Trump had committed a criminal obstruction to Congress in his efforts to overthrow the election, and that Trump and Eastman participated in a conspiracy to obstruct Congress. “Dr. Eastman has an impeccable record as a lawyer and respects the judge’s findings with respect,” Charles Burnham’s lawyer told CNN in response to the ruling. Trump Jr.’s texts in Meadows also discussed people he believed needed to be cleared by the federal government. “Fire Wray, Fire Fauci,” wrote Trump Jr. referring to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease specialist, who is subject to certain protections as a civil servant and cannot be fired unilaterally by the president. Trump Jr. also suggested that the Department of Justice “select a Special Prosecutor for the HardDrive crime family from Hell Biden’s family,” an idea that then-Attorney General Bill Barr rejected. Meadows and his lawyer voluntarily handed over some of Meadows’s text messages and communications to the committee before Meadows stopped working, prompting Congress to refer him to the Department of Justice for contempt of Congress. Other messages the committee received included texts from Ginny Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who texted Mendows nearly 30 times to promote Q-Anon’s neighboring conspiracy theories and urged him not to give up. 2020. Read the original article in Business Insider
