Texts show Fox hosts and Trump Jr. begging Mark Meadows to get Trump to stop the insurgency
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On Monday evening, the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 released some of the text it had collected in which people were desperately trying to connect with former chief of staff Mark Meadows as the assault on the Capitol was underway. The texts included RepublTexts show Fox hosts and Trump Jr. begging Mark Meadows to get Trump to stop the insurgency
On Monday evening, the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 released some of the text it had collected in which people were desperately trying to connect with former chief of staff Mark Meadows as the assault on the Capitol was underway. The texts included Republicans members of Congress, Fox News pundits, and even Donald Trump Jr. all begging for the same thing: for Meadows to get Donald Trump on television so he could tell his supporters to stop the violence. That didn’t happen. Meadows has refused to appear and provide testimony to the select committee. After putting on a pretense of cooperation after subpoenas were initially issued three months ago, Meadows continually reduced the scope of what he would agree to discuss. As of last week, Meadows had made it clear he would neither show up nor hand over most requested documents. The former congressman and White House chief of staff is now all but certain to join Steve Bannon in facing a charge of contempt. That charge passed the select committee unanimously, and the full House is expected to vote on Tuesday. That vote could be especially interesting, considering that part of documents Meadows is refusing to provide the Committee includes over 1,000 texts, many of them with members of Congress. However, the texts and documents Meadows has produced are already producing a picture of what happened at the White House from the election to the day of the insurgency. And none of it is pretty. Read more