Representative Zoe Lofgren, a California Democrat on the shortlist, read a text message from an unnamed Georgia government official to Meadows during the January 2 call.
“This appeal must be stopped,” the official wrote. “I don’t think this will work any longer.”
Representative Adam Schiff, another California Democrat on the committee, read a text from an unspecified number welcoming the appointment of Jeffery Clark as acting attorney general as Trump tries to get the Justice Department back. support his election fraud allegations. Clark is one of the big supporters at the DOJ who is pushing to use the department’s power to investigate baseless allegations of voter fraud, but he has been rejected by department leaders. deny.
“I heard Jeff Clark will be brought in on Monday. That’s amazing. That would make a lot of patriots happy and I’m personally very proud that you’re at the tip of the spear, and I can call. you are you”. text for Meadows to read.
The members of the January 6 committee did not identify who sent Meadows the messages they disclosed Tuesday. But they argued that the messages were part of evidence of how much Meadows despised Congress after he refused to cooperate with the commission’s investigation.
“Mr Meadows received a lot of text messages that he sent without any request for privilege, begging that Mr Trump take concrete action that we all know his obligations. is necessary,” Republican Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, one of two selected Republicans, told the committee. “Indeed, some of those text messages, madam, are coming from members of the room right now.”
On Monday, when the selection committee passed its resolution in contempt of Meadows, the panel revealed that Meadows had voluntarily provided numerous text messages he received on January 6, including from Fox News personalities, lawmakers, and then-President’s son, Donald Trump Jr.
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