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There are some new revelations in the 1-6 Committee report concerning the Contempt Charges against Mark Meadows, from the NYTimes:
Meadows Was Deeply Involved in Fighting Election Outcome, Jan. 6 Panel Says
WASHINGTON — The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol released a report on Sunday that laid out its case for a contempt of Congress charge against Mark Meadows, the chief of staff to former President Donald J. Trump, presenting evidence of Mr. Meadows’s deep involvement in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
In the 51-page document, the committee said it wanted to question Mr. Meadows about an email he had sent a day before the attack advising that the National Guard would be used to defend Trump supporters. The panel said it also wanted to ask him about an exchange with an unnamed senator about rejecting electors for Joseph R. Biden Jr.
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The report comes as the committee is scrutinizing a 38-page PowerPoint document containing plans to overturn Mr. Biden’s victory. That document, which Mr. Meadows provided to the committee, urged Mr. Trump to declare a national emergency to cling to power and included an unsupported claim that China and Venezuela had obtained control over the voting infrastructure in a majority of states.
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Phil Waldron, a retired Army colonel who has promoted false claims of election fraud, said that he had circulated the document among Mr. Trump’s allies and among lawmakers on Capitol Hill in the days before the mob violence. Mr. Giuliani has identified Mr. Waldron as a source of information for his legal campaign.
from the 1st supporting link, reference above:
RESOLUTION RECOMMENDING THAT THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FIND MARK RANDALL MEADOWS IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS FOR REFUSAL TO COMPLY WITH A SUBPOENA DULY ISSUED BY THE SELECT COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE THE JANUARY 6TH ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL
[pg 9]
Beyond those matters, the Select Committee seeks information
from Mr. Meadows about issues including the following:
• Mr. Meadows exchanged text messages with, and provided
guidance to, an organizer of the January 6th rally on the El-
lipse after the organizer told him that ‘‘[t]hings have gotten
crazy and I desperately need some direction. Please.’’ [32]
• Mr. Meadows sent an email to an individual about the
events on January 6 and said that the National Guard would
be present to ‘‘protect pro Trump people’’ and that many more
would be available on standby. [33]
• Mr. Meadows received text messages and emails regarding
apparent efforts to encourage Republican legislators in certain
States to send alternate slates of electors to Congress, a plan
which one Member of Congress acknowledged was ‘‘highly con-
troversial’’ and to which Mr. Meadows responded, ‘‘I love it.’’
Mr. Meadows responded to a similar message by saying ‘‘[w]e
are’’ and another such message by saying ‘‘Yes. Have a team
on it.’’[34]
• Mr. Meadows forwarded claims of election fraud to the
Acting leadership of DOJ for further investigation, some of
which he may have received using a private email account and
at least one of which he had received directly from people asso-
ciated with Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign. [35]
• He also reportedly introduced Mr. Trump to then-DOJ offi-
cial Jeffrey Clark. 36 Mr. Clark went on to recommend to Mr.
Trump that he be installed as Acting Attorney General and
that DOJ should send a letter to State officials urging them to
take certain actions that could affect the outcome of the No-
vember 2020 election by, among other things, appointing alter-
nate slates of electors to cast electoral votes for Mr. Trump
rather than now-President Biden.
[… more ...]
[Emphasis added.]
No time for my idle speculations now. Thought I should post this quick summary though.
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There are more documents in the 51-page document, the committee released late yesterday.
Cheers.
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Here’s a clip of them making the case against Mark Meadows, with even more reveals: