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Mo brooks paul gosar and andy biggs9/13/2023 Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia testified in a hearing in April that she does not recall conversations she had with the White House or the texts she sent to Meadows about Trump invoking martial law. The majority of the lawmakers have since denied their involvement in these efforts. Those certificates from the “alternate electors” were then sent to Congress, where they were ignored. They declared themselves the rightful electors and submitted false Electoral College certificates declaring Trump the true winner of the presidential election in their states. 14, 2020, as rightly chosen Democratic electors in seven states - Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - met at their seat of state government to cast their votes, the fake electors gathered as well. Matt Gaetz of Florida and Louie Gohmert of Texas, according to testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson, a former special assistant in the Trump White House.ĭespite the warning from the counsel’s office, Trump’s allies moved forward. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, pushed back on that position. In early December 2020, several lawmakers attended a meeting in the White House counsel’s office where attorneys for the president advised them that a plan to put up an alternate slate of electors declaring Trump the winner was not “legally sound.” One lawmaker, Rep. President Donald Trump as they depart on travel to Minnesota and Wisconsin at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, U.S., U.S., August 17, 2020. White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows talks on his phone while walking to board Air Force One with U.S. The efforts started in the weeks after The Associated Press declared Biden president-elect. It includes information on several high-level meetings nearly a dozen House Republicans attended where Trump’s allies flirted with ways to give him another term.Īmong the ideas: naming fake slates of electors in seven swing states, declaring martial law and seizing voting machines. The latest court document, submitted in response to a lawsuit from Meadows, contained excerpts from just a handful of the more than 930 interviews the Jan. But the lack of cooperation from lawmakers hasn’t prevented the panel from obtaining new information about their actions. 6 committee has refrained from issuing subpoenas to lawmakers, fearing the repercussions of such an extraordinary step. Other lawmakers could be called in the coming days. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California - to testify voluntarily. Members have asked three GOP lawmakers - Jordan of Ohio, Rep. 6 panel has been slowly gaining new details about what lawmakers said and did in the weeks before the insurrection. Since launching its investigation last summer, the Jan. 6 committee, told The Associated Press last week. Bennie Thompson, the Democratic chairman of the Jan. “It appears that a significant number of House members and a few senators had more than just a passing role in what went on,” Rep. The Republicans plotting with Trump and the rioters who attacked the Capitol were aligned in their goals, if not the mob’s violent tactics, creating a convergence that nearly upended the nation’s peaceful transfer of power. 6 committee are making explicit as they prepare to launch public hearings in June. It’s a connection that members of the House Jan. A review of the evidence finds new details about how, long before the attack on the Capitol unfolded, several GOP lawmakers were participating directly in Trump’s campaign to reverse the results of a free and fair election. 6 riot, is in a batch of startling evidence that shows the deep involvement of some House Republicans in Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power. The text exchange, in an April 22 court filing from the congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6 committee leaked text messages in attempt to ‘vilify’ him “I have pushed for this,” Meadows replied. Pence “should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all,” Jordan wrote. 5, Jordan offered a legal rationale for what President Donald Trump was publicly demanding - that Vice President Mike Pence, in his ceremonial role presiding over the electoral count, somehow assert the authority to reject electors from Biden-won states. Texting with then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, a close ally and friend, at nearly midnight on Jan. Jim Jordan had been trying to achieve the same thing. 6, 2021, succeeded - at least temporarily - in delaying the certification of Joe Biden’s election to the White House. WASHINGTON (AP) - Rioters who smashed their way into the U.S.
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