Republicans have been crowing about the “Twitter Files” and Hunter Biden’s laptop, but maybe it’s Mark Meadows’ texts they should have been worried about all along.
Thousands of text messages that Meadows turned over to the House’s Jan. 6 committee were obtained by Talking Points Memo, shining new light on the role that Meadows and other Republican officials played in the effort to overturn the 2020 election.
The more than 2,300 texts detail the extent to which Donald Trump’s allies floated conspiracy theories, absurd legal tactics and even violence. As Trump’s chief of staff, Meadows was at the center of these discussions, communicating with members of Congress, state officials and far-right activists, according to Talking Points Memo. In total, 34 Republican members of Congress appear in the texts — four of whom, like Meadows, hail from North Carolina.
