A group of pro-Trump conspiracy theorists sent Republican senators a memorandum advocating for the use of top-secret communications intercepts to bolster former president Donald Trump’s claims of election fraud in the days leading up to the 6 January 2021 attack on the Capitol.
The memorandum, which was first revealed by the Washington Post, opens with the baseless claim that “substantial evidence” which had been obtained by former Pentagon and US Intelligence Community analysts suggested “foreign involvement” in the racial justice protests which spread across the US in 2020, describing them as a “violent colour revolution”.
