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Martin Pengelly in New York

Republican who urged Trump to declare ‘Marshall’ law only regrets misspelling

Ralph Norman speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Texas on 5 August 2022.
Ralph Norman speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Texas, in August. Photograph: Brian Snyder/Reuters

A Republican who urged the Trump White House to declare martial law to stop Joe Biden taking office has only one regret: that he misspelled “martial”.

The text from Ralph Norman of South Carolina to Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s final chief of staff, was given to the January 6 committee by Meadows and revealed by Talking Points Memo.

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