Newly revealed text messages turned over to the House January 6 Select Committee show Utah senator Mike Lee initially supported former president Donald Trump’s push to install himself in the White House for a second term against the wishes of American voters, but warned that the plan could go horribly awry when none of the proof of election fraud promised by Mr Trump ever materialised.
Mr Lee, a Republican who once served as a law clerk for US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, first encouraged then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to find a way to overturn the 2020 election results on 7 November, the day President Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election by most news outlets.
