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"Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!! PLEASE URGE TO PRESIDENT TO DO SO!!" [1]
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Date: 2022-12-12
Meadows's texts are the tip of the iceberg: conspiracy practice needed no theory. TPM has the goods.
"This was clearly an attempt to interfere with a federal proceeding, but it was a lot of other things, too," Rep. Jamie Raskin explained. "I mean, it was an attempt to overthrow an election, to defraud the public, it was an effort to shut down the U.S. government and people are going to jail for seditious conspiracy. Seditious conspiracy means a conspiracy to overthrow or put down the government of the United States or to interfere with the operation of its laws and there are numerous people now who have been convicted of that and who have pleaded guilty to that.”
🔥Mark Meadows Exchanged Conspiracy Riddled Texts With 34 Members Of Congress About Plans To Overturn The 2020 Election. @RepRalphNorman wants Trump to declare Martial Law but thinks it’s spelled Marshall…
https://t.co/BAjS8AloAb
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows exchanged text messages with at least 34 Republican members of Congress as they plotted to overturn President Trump’s loss in the 2020 election.
Those messages are being fully, publicly documented here for the first time.
The texts are part of a trove Meadows turned over to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack that was obtained by TPM. For more information about the story behind the text log and our procedures for publishing the messages, read the introduction to this series. Meadows’ exchanges shed new light on the extent of congressional involvement in Trump’s efforts to spread baseless conspiracy theories about his defeat and his attempts to reverse it. The messages document the role members played in the campaign to subvert the election as it was conceived, built, and reached its violent climax on Jan. 6, 2021. The texts are rife with links to far-right websites, questionable legal theories, violent rhetoric, and advocacy for authoritarian power grabs.
One message identified as coming from Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) to Meadows on January 17, 2021, three days before Joe Biden was set to take office, is a raw distillation of the various themes in the congressional correspondence. In the text, despite a typo, Norman seemed to be proposing a dramatic last ditch plan: having Trump impose martial law during his final hours in office.
Mark, in seeing what’s happening so quickly, and reading about the Dominion law suits attempting to stop any meaningful investigation we are at a point of � no return � in saving our Republic !! Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!! PLEASE URGE TO PRESIDENT TO DO SO!!
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x “Marshall Law.”
Absolutely incredible that Republican members of Congress are indistinguishable from Facebook Boomers at this point.
https://t.co/dbqtusFPRe — brentmas says Happy Hanukkah 🕎🎄 (@brent858) December 12, 2022
x It’s bad enough to be a seditionist and an enemy of the constitution. But you’d think that a guy who wants a coup might at least be able to spell “martial”
https://t.co/uVkJRGaiME — Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 12, 2022
x THIS JUST IN: Former and current members of Secret Service, border control, customs, and Coast Guard were all on right-wing militant group Oath Keepers roster in past years, leaked data shows. @OCCRP @KevinGHall
https://t.co/cyySi3etWP via @occrp — Michael Sallah (@MikeSallah7) December 12, 2022
Below is a list of all of the members of Congress identified in Meadows’ text message log. We have also included details about whether we were able to verify the contact information associated with their names and our efforts to include their comments on this story.
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