You can see the outlines of the Jan 6 conspiracy.

You can see the outlines of a conspiracy.

In the details of the new Jan 6 Committee report recommending a contempt citiation for Mark Meadows, you can see the outlines of a conspiracy. A few excerpts from p. 41: docs.house.gov/...

We would have asked Mr. Meadows about text messages sent to and from Members of Congress . . . because, as Mr. Meadows indicates “POTUS wants to chat with them,’’ regarding efforts to contact State legislators.

We would’ve asked Mr. Meadows about text messages sent to and from [a] Member of Congress . . . the President asked him to call Governor Ducey . . . and asks for contact information for the attorney general of Arizona to discuss allegations of election fraud.

We would’ve asked Mr. Meadows about text messages sent to and received from Members of the House of Representatives and the Senate about objections to the certification of electors in certain States on January 6th.

We would have asked him about text messages sent to and received from a Senator regarding the Vice President’s power to reject electors, including a text in which Mr. Meadows recounts a direct communication with President Trump who, according to Mr. Meadows . . . ‘‘thinks the legislators have the power, but the VP has power too,’’

We would’ve asked Mr. Meadows about text messages exchanged with various individuals, including Members of Congress, on January 6th before, during, and after the attack on the United States Capitol, including text messages encouraging Mr. Meadows to facilitate a statement by President Trump discouraging violence at the Capitol. docs.house.gov/...



https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IJ/IJ00/20211213/114313/HRPT-117-NA.pdf
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/13/2068881/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-Uncertainty-about-the-pandemic-is-not-blocking-confidence-in-mitigation#comment_82446199

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& from EMPTYWHEEL: the contempt report for Mark Meadows will serve as much as a draft warrant affidavit for the FBI as it would the basis for a criminal contempt indictment.

As some of the bullets make clear, Mark Meadows had advance warning from organizers that things would get violent on January 6. And as the riot developed, he was in constant communication with Kash Patel, the Chief of Staff at the Defense Department that proved unwilling to deploy to protect the Capitol.

And it’s just possible information he shared information that was central to the expectations of and plans by the militia that organized the assault.



https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IJ/IJ00/20211213/114313/HRPT-117-NA.pdf
https://www.emptywheel.net/2021/12/13/mark-meadows-promised-the-kind-of-national-guard-protection-that-proud-boy-charles-donohoe-seemed-to-expect/

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“Mark Meadows indicated in a Jan. 5 email that the National Guard was on standby to ‘protect pro Trump people,'”

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/12/meadows-jan-6-national-guard-trump-524133

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This adds up: The Meadows email about Nat'l Guard protecting "pro-Trump" protesters also exposes a key fact about Jan. 6 that everyone forgets — the brilliant move by the left to stay away from D.C. I think Trump's coup plotters were counting on leftist counter-protesters to clash with their people and thus justify a military intervention that would have been in support of a coup-like takeover. When that didn't happen, you instead saw an afternoon of weird inaction by NG and Pentagon. The dog that didn't bark — Will Bunch via Twitter

...counter-protesters to clash with their people and thus justify a military intervention that would have been in support of a coup-like takeover. When that didn't happen, you instead saw an afternoon of weird inaction by NG and Pentagon.