Mark Meadows Exchanged Texts With 34 Members Of Congress About Plans To Overturn The 2020 Election

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows exchanged text messages with at least 34 Republican members of Congress as they plotted to overturn President Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. 


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1441975
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I’m all for invoking Martial Dillon.

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And the flood gates open !

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Surely this is criminal or am I hopelessly naive (again)?

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What’s worse than living under a dictatorship? Living under a dictatorship run by people who can’t spell “martial law.”

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“Marshall law.” Is that the one where Trump would have put on a (honorary) silver star and ten-gallon hat, strode out on the White House balcony and proclaimed “Many people are saying that this town isn’t big enough for both me and Sleepy Joe”?

Contemptible fucking idiots, who can’t even spell the crimes they’re trying, and failing, to commit.

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Just beginning to read the texts but how fucking stupid are these morons, texting their intentions is like broadcasting their shitty plans to the world in triplicate.

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For a bunch of unethical assholes led by a king asshole, these people sure claim to do a whole lot of praying. Who to, I wonder? Ba’al or Saint Ronald?

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I didn’t really see much overtly criminal in any of those texts themselves (though I am no expert in such things, nor would I claim to be), but it definitely seems like there are a lot of dots there to connect to potential criminal activity on Jan 6th. Can’t wait for more shoes to drop on that front!

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To be fair, if they succeeded it wouldn’t of mattered much.

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OR, this was very clever @ss covering. Surely, somewhere, there is a “Marshall Law” that could provide plausible deniability of fomenting an insurrection…LOLOL

Sorry, couldn’t keep a straight face while typing :wink:

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"‘Gosar also sent Meadows a link to a fringe blog called “Some Bitch Told Me.”’ That’s just a hilarious sentence, the horror underlying all of this notwithstanding. It’s the Keystone Kops meets Jackass meets the Nazi party.

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I am not a lawyer, but I fail to understand why this does not constitute a criminal conspiracy. Overturning a valid election is surely a crime, and these guys (and some women) were obviously conspiring. Any legal minds out there who can explain this?

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All this is what happens when God isn’t really on your side…

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" Our president is heroic! "

bastards

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They want marital laws for marshals codified under maritime law.

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“Marshall Law” :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Like how do these morons get elected to Congress? How?!

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Josh Marshall Law?

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Thurgoood Marshall law?

Penny Marshall?

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Apparently, their representatives had a lot in common with the Jan. 6 miscreants who posted their infractions all over Facebook.
Fitting, that.

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