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Hugo Lowell and Ramon Antonio Vargas

Mark Meadows was warned of illegality of scheme to overturn 2020 election

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Mark Meadows passes a note to Donald Trump in a room of the White House.
Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, was warned by White House counsel that the effort to overturn the 2020 election was not legally sound. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows was warned the effort to overturn the 2020 election with fake electoral college votes was not legally sound – and yet proceeded anyway, the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack said Friday.

In a court filing, the panel also said that Meadows went ahead with plans to have Trump speak at the Ellipse rally that descended into the Capitol attack, only days after being expressly told by the US Secret Service that there was potential for violence on 6 January 2021.

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