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Salon
Salon
Politics
Igor Derysh

Leaked Meadows texts show GOP Jan 6 plot

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows exchanged text messages with at least 34 Republican lawmakers as they plotted to overturn former President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, according to a trove of thousands of messages obtained by Talking Points Memo.

The texts, which were part of a trove of messages that Meadows turned over to the House Jan. 6 committee, show Meadows and members of Congress exchange conspiracy theories, links to far-right websites, questionable legal theories and even a misspelled call to invoke martial law. The messages show the Republicans discussing plans to block President Joe Biden's victory leading up to Jan. 6 and continuing until Trump's final hours in office.

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