Former President Donald Trump’s last White House chief of chief, Mark Meadows, was warned by the Secret Service that violence could occur when a Joint Session of Congress gathered on Jan. 6, 2021, to certify Joe Biden’s election victory, new court filings show.
Meadows and several Republican members of Congress also were advised by a White House lawyer that a fringe plan to create “alternate” slates of presidential electors to block Biden’s win wasn’t “legally sound,” but pressed on, according to the filings Friday night from the House Select Committee probing the U.S. Capitol riot.
Cassidy Hutchinson, a special assistant in the Trump White House, told the committee about Meadows during a March 7 interview, “I don’t want to speculate whether or not he perceived them as genuine concerns, but I know that people had brought information forward to him that had indicated that there could be violence on the 6th.”
