12/12/2022

2020 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was forced to hand over 2,319 text messages to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The trove of text messages were obtained by Talking Points Memo [TPM], which on Monday reported on the extent to which Meadows was communicating with members of Congress about overturning the 2020 election…

[T]he TPM report identifies a startling message from Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) to Meadows, sent on Jan. 17, 2021, just three days before Joe Biden was scheduled to take office.

In the text, Norman appears to propose that then-President Trump impose martial law — or, as Norman put it, ‘Marshall Law’ — during his final hours of office to overturn the election in his favor…

The series also shows that Meadows was at the center of hundreds of incoming discussions among 34 members of Congress about plans to help Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.”

-Charisma Madarang, “GOP Congressman Wanted Trump to Invoke ‘Marshall Law’ to Stay in Office: Leaked Texts,” rolling stone.com, December 12, 2022