The evidence is now clear that Mark Meadows’s actions at this crucial moment not only mattered but might well have been decisive. He has emerged as the source of damning revelations enabling the committee to piece together the extraordinary events which unfolded, so that rather than conceding defeat, Trump orchestrated an unprecedented attempt to subvert the results in order to remain in power. Before Meadows abruptly stopped coöperating with the panel he handed over thousands of text messages, which show Trump at the center of the far-reaching plot to take his election challenge beyond where any previous President had before.The evidence that Meadows himself provided to the committee shows that he was focussed on sending fake electors to Congress as early as November 7th, not long after Trump falsely claimed, “Frankly, we did win this election,” and set the whole tragic farce in motion.
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