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Lacking a better term, I called it Donald Trump’s <b>congressional coup.</b></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Last night’s hearing, however, suggested one more layer.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A cover-up of the congressional coup.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/committee-stark-case-donald-trump/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="self" title="view post: Eighth January 6th hearing provided the 'starkest illustration' yet against Donald Trump: journalists" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Eighth January 6th hearing provided the 'starkest illustration' yet against Donald Trump: journalists</a></strong></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">By the Congress.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>Hinting hard</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The goal appears to have been getting enough members of the US Congress to vote to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The GOP had a Senate majority at the time. They could have, in theory, overruled the will of the people, at least temporarily. Ultimately, however, just 147 Republicans, including eight senators, objected.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I don’t know, had they amassed enough votes in the Senate, where things would have gone after that. Perhaps it would have triggered the 12th Amendment. Perhaps it would have thrown the process back to red states that Joe Biden had won, where friendly Republican legislators would have fixed things so Trump could stay in office.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>READ MORE: <a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/watch-outtakes-of-trump-on-january-7th-can-t-say-the-election-s-over/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="self" title="view post: Watch: Outtakes of Trump on January 7th — he can't say the election's over" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Watch: Outtakes of Trump on January 7th — he can't say the election's over</a></strong></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In any case, the former president spent a lot of time talking about congressional Republicans and talking <em>directly to</em> congressional Republicans to such a degree as to suggest there was another layer of his grand seditious conspiracy that’s only now coming into light. That’s certainly what the J6 committee has been hinting hard at.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>Co-conspirators?</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 153);">Last week, the panel’s Stephanie Murphy said Trump met in late December with US Reps. Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Brian Babin, Jody Hice, Louie Gohmert, Andy Harris, Mo Brooks, Paul Gosar, Scott Perry and Jim Jordan. Margaret Taylor Greene was there. So were Mike Pence, Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani. <b>(Seven of these members asked for pardons. Ditto Meadows, Giuliani and Greene.)</b></span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">They tried getting the former vice president to go along with the conspiracy. It called for him to reject the count all by himself or send it back to the states where state GOP legislators were waiting.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Pence had refused before. I’m guessing those at the meeting expected him to again. He did. The next step was finalizing a scheme to bring tens of thousands of Trump loyalists to the capital, including armed paramilitaries (eg, Proud Boys and Oath Keepers), in order to terrify not only Pence but GOP senators into reinstalling Trump.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>Terrifying GOP senators</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">According to the J6 committee’s Elaine Luria, Trump was told 15 minutes after returning to the White House after his speech on the Ellipse that the US Capitol was under siege by an armed mob. After the briefing, Luria said, Trump began calling GOP senators for the purpose of persuading them to overrule the results of the election.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On the one hand, the former president had insurgents sacking and looting the seat of government, threatening lawmakers with death – in Mike Pence’s case, with hanging from a makeshift gallows. (It was revealed last night that Pence’s Secret Service detail believed they were going to die. They sent messages of love to their families.) On the other, Trump pushed GOP senators by phone to get on board.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">During that time, White House staffers tried and failed to persuade Trump to respond to the assault. (He did not issue orders to anyone, not the secretary of defense, the secretary of homeland security, the attorney general, no one.) Instead of telling them to go home, as staffers had hoped, he posted a tweet accusing Pence of betrayal.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After “pouring gasoline on the fire,” as witness Sarah Matthews said, the former president made <em>more phone calls</em> to Republican senators. Later that evening, after Trump had called for the insurgents to go home, Rudy Giuliani made <em>even more calls</em> to Republican senators.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Indeed, the J6 committee’s Adam Kinzinger named them. They were: Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, Marsha Blackburn, Bill Hagerty, Tommy Tuberville and Lindsey Graham. Of that number, only three voted to overturn the results of the election: Cruz, Tuberville and Hawley.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>The cover-up</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Giuliani also called US Rep. Jim Jordan.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jordan, as I <a href="https://www.editorialboard.com/j6-committee-hints-at-an-attempted-congressional-coup/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">wrote last week</a>, was nominated to serve on the initial select committee to investigate J6. Speaker Nancy Pelosi vetoed his nomination, though. Good thing she did. The current committee would have been compromised by the presence of a congressman who was a serial witness to the serial crimes under investigation.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jordan was nominated by Kevin McCarthy. As the J6 committee reminded us last night, the House minority leader talked to Trump after the attack. He said Trump said he had “some responsibility” for J6. McCarthy said he told Trump that the House Democrats were likely to pass an impeachment resolution and that he should resign.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Trump didn’t resign, of course.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Perhaps the fix was in.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>Implication by omission</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the J6 committee, reminded us that the committee’s work goes on. Hearings will resume in September, she said. Then the Wyoming congresswoman used some curious math:</p><blockquote style="margin: 1em 40px 1em -5px; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; border-left: 4px solid rgb(11, 13, 101); width: 602.542px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Today, we know far more about the president’s plans and actions to overturn the election than almost all members of Congress did when President Trump was impeached on January 13, 2021, or when he was tried by the Senate in February of that year.</span></blockquote><blockquote style="margin: 1em 40px 1em -5px; font-size: 17.5px; line-height: 32px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding: 10px 20px 10px 24px; border-left: 4px solid rgb(11, 13, 101); width: 602.542px; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Fifty-seven of 100 senators voted to convict President Trump at that time, and more than 20 others said they were voting against conviction, because the president's term had already expired.</span></blockquote><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cheney said “almost all,” I think, because a dozen GOP members had been deeply involved in or material witnesses to Trump’s conspiracy.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She said “57 of 100,” I think, because it takes 67 senators to remove and convict a president. She said “more than 20 others,” because she’s apparently giving these GOP senators the benefit of the doubt.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But that still leaves around 20 unaccounted for. Why?</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Perhaps because some, or all, of these 20 or so Republican senators had been in contact with the former president as the insurrection was unfolding and therefore potential co-conspirators in the crime.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Perhaps because some, or all, of these 20 or so Republican senators voted against conviction, thus taking steps to cover up the crime.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In any case, it was implication by omission.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>The appearance of a conspiracy</strong></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">We know at least six of them were evidently in both camps. On the evening of J6, Rudy Giuliani called Blackburn, Hawley, Cruz, Hagarty, Tuberville and Graham hoping they would object to the vote count. (Three did.) This same group voted to acquit Trump of treason.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If that’s not a rigged outcome, it sure looks like one.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Liz Cheney seemed to be inviting us to put the former president’s second impeachment trial in light of what we know now.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She seemed to be asking us to consider what it means when at least a dozen sitting members of the House were material witnesses as well as grand jury members deciding on an indictment (impeachment).</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She seemed to be asking us to see that at least six of those Senators were materially involved in a crime of which they sat in judgment.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">If that’s not a conspiracy, it sure as hell looks like one.</p><p style="color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>READ MORE: </strong><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/07/video-josh-hawley-evade-rioters/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="self" title="view post: Video shows Josh Hawley running to evade the rioters he had earlier praised" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="color: rgb(11, 13, 101); text-decoration-line: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;"><strong>Video shows Josh Hawley running to evade the rioters he had earlier praised</strong></a></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">POLITICS</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>These 16 Republican congressmembers helped Trump try to overturn the 2020 election</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meet the lawmakers most deeply involved in planning Jan. 6, according to the Jan. 6 committee.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Steve Reilly</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Investigative Reporter</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">July 21, 2022</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More than a dozen Republican members of Congress were directly involved in lobbying for and orchestrating what Jan. 6 committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) has called “an attempted coup” to keep then-President Donald Trump in power, according to the panel’s findings and public accounts.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s one of the most alarming revelations to be drawn from the mountains of evidence compiled by the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, which is scheduled to hold its seventh hearing Thursday evening. Far from being bystanders, congressional members including Reps. Scott Perry (R-Penn.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) were deeply involved in planning and coordinating efforts to keep Trump in office, the committee has said.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hear more from Steve Reilly about this story:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The lawmakers allegedly collaborated in private meetings with Trump on strategies to stay in power despite losing the election. They variously helped plan and promote Trump’s Ellipse rally on the sixth, and some spoke at the event, according to the committee and news accounts. In public, they amplified bogus vote fraud concerns, while in private they attempted to orchestrate floor votes to deny certification to electors from several states and worked to present alternate slates of electors to Vice President Mike Pence, according to public accounts and committee findings.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>According to the committee, at the center of those efforts were at least 11 current Republican members of Congress<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Mostly purported members of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, the members met in the White House on Dec. 21, 2020, to discuss overturning the results of the presidential election, </span>the panel has reported. Following the meeting, Trump began public and private efforts to weaponize the Department of Justice in a last-ditch effort to stay in power, treating the lawmakers as close allies in his plan.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen,” Trump instructed Acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen and his top deputy, Richard Donoghue, in a Dec. 27, 2020, White House phone call intended to spur DOJ officials to paint state election results as tainted, according to testimony and contemporaneous notes.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In notes on a Dec. 27, 2020 meeting with Trump, former Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue wrote: “just say that the election was corrupt + leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen.”]</font></div><div>
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</div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ultimately, a total of 147 Republican members of Congress — 139 in the House and eight in the Senate — voted against certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election on Jan. 6, 2021. Many of them also signed on to an ill-fated Supreme Court challenge to Joe Biden’s victory, which the high court quickly tossed.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here is a look at how different members of Congress, all Republican, helped the former president attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, according to the Jan. 6 committee and public reporting:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Participated in early stages of White House Jan. 6 discussions: Perry was part of a group of four congressmembers and members-elect who advocated that Pence might have the power to decline to certify electoral votes, a role other than simply counting the electoral votes on Jan. 6, Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testified.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Reportedly helped develop strategy for overturning the election results: Perry was reportedly one of two congressmembers who participated in a Nov. 9, 2020, meeting with White House and campaign officials at Trump campaign headquarters in which “the group settled on a strategy that would become a blueprint for Mr. Trump’s supporters in Congress: Hammer home the idea that the election was tainted, announce legal actions being taken by the campaign, and bolster the case with allegations of fraud,” the New York Times reported in December 2021.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Attended Dec. 21 White House meeting: Perry was among at least 11 lawmakers who met at the White House to help orchestrate efforts to overturn the election results, according to testimony and White House visitor logs obtained by the committee.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Introduced lawyer Jeffrey Clark to Trump: Perry was instrumental in efforts to install Clark</b>, an environmental lawyer, as the acting U.S. attorney general in the waning days of the Trump presidency, according to the committee. On Dec. 22, 2020, Perry came to the White House with Clark, according to White House visitor records obtained by the committee and presented at its fifth hearing on June 23. “He wanted Mr. Clark, Mr. Jeff Clark, to take over the Department of Justice,” Hutchinson testified. Clark pleaded the Fifth when asked if he knew Perry in testimony before the committee.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pressured Meadows to elevate Clark at DOJ: On Dec. 26, 2020, Perry texted Meadows: “Mark, just checking in as time continues to count down. 11 days to January 6th and 25 days to inauguration. We’ve got to get going,” according to text messages obtained by the committee. “Mark, you should call Jeff. I just got off the phone with him and he explained to me why the principal deputy won’t work, especially with the FBI. They will view it as not having the authority to enforce what needs to be done.” Perry followed up with a text message later on Dec. 26 indicating he had sent Meadows “an updated file” on the encrypted messaging app Signal. Two days later, he texted Meadows: “Did you call Jeff Clark?”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pressured DOJ at Trump’s request: On Dec. 27, 2020, Perry called Donoghue, the acting deputy attorney general, at Trump’s request, Donoghue testified. “He gave me some background about, you know, why he in particular doesn’t trust the FBI and why the American people don’t necessarily trust the FBI,” Donoghue testified at the committee’s fifth hearing. “And then he went into some allegations specific to Pennsylvania, which included, amongst others, this allegation that the secretary of state had certified more votes than were actually cast.” During the same call, Donoghue said, Perry “said something to the effect of, ‘I think Jeff Clark is great, and I think he’s the kind of guy who could get in there and do something about this stuff.’”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Sent conspiracy theory video to White House: On Dec. 31, 2020, Perry texted Meadows a YouTube video that committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., described as “a completely baseless conspiracy theory that an Italian defense contractor uploaded software to a satellite that switched votes from Trump to Biden.</span>” Meadows passed the email to DOJ leadership, and Donoghue was tasked with reviewing the video. “I emailed the acting attorney general, and I said ‘pure insanity,’ which was my impression of the video, which was patently absurd,” Donoghue testified.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Requested a pardon: Perry requested a pardon from the White House, Hutchinson said in videotaped testimony played on June 23.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In statements to local media, Perry acknowledged his involvement in conversations with Trump and Clark, but denied he sought a pardon. Perry’s office did not respond to a request for comment for this report.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Participated in early stages of White House Jan. 6 discussions: Jordan was part of a core group of four congressmembers or members-elect involved in raising the idea that Pence might have a role other than simply counting the electoral votes on Jan. 6, Hutchinson testified.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amplified false election claims: “The ultimate date of significance is January six. This is how the process works. The ultimate arbiter here, the ultimate check and balance is the United States Congress. And when something is done in an unconstitutional fashion, which happened in several of these states, we have a duty to step forward and have this debate and have this vote on the 6th of January,” Jordan said in Jan. 3, 2021, public remarks shown by the committee in its fifth hearing on June 23.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Reportedly helped develop strategy for overturning the election</b>: <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Jordan was one of two congressmembers who participated in a Nov. 9 meeting with White House and campaign officials at Trump campaign headquarters in which “the group settled on a strategy that would become a blueprint for Trump’s supporters in Congress: </span>Hammer home the idea that the election was tainted, announce legal actions being taken by the campaign, and bolster the case with allegations of fraud,” the New York Times reported in December 2021.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Attended Dec. 21 White House meeting: Jordan was among at least 11 lawmakers</span> who met at the White House to help orchestrate efforts to overturn the election results, according to testimony and White House visitor logs obtained by the committee.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Texted spurious legal theory to Meadows on eve of electoral certification: “On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all — in accordance with guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence,” Jordan texted to Meadows at 11:27 p.m. on Jan. 5, according to messages obtained by CNN. Meadows texted back the next morning: “I have pushed for this. Not sure it is going to happen.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Spoke with Trump repeatedly on Jan. 6: Trump called Jordan at 9:24 a.m. the day of the Capitol riot, according to records obtained by the Washington Post and CBS News, and the two spoke for 10 minutes. Jordan has said he spoke “a number of times that day” with Trump but has not shared what the two discussed.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Was in contact with White House during Capitol attack: When Meadows left his office to speak with Trump after rioters entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, he told his aide, Hutchinson, “Let me know if Jim calls,” she testified. Shortly after 2 p.m., Jordan called Meadows’ cellphone, and Hutchinson handed it to him.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Discussed congressional pardons: “Mr. Jordan talked about congressional pardons, but he never asked me for one. It was more for an update on whether the White House was going to pardon members of Congress,” Hutchinson said in videotaped testimony played on June 23.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jordan has confirmed that he spoke with Trump on Jan. 6, and his office confirmed that he texted with Meadows the day before. His office did not respond to a request for comment for this report.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
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</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amplified false election claims: “Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass,” Brooks said in his speech before Trump’s Jan. 6 rally audience, shown by the committee in its fifth hearing on June 23. Brooks broadcast a variety of “stolen” election allegations, including that Biden benefited from massive vote fraud by noncitizens.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Led push for lawmakers to vote against certifying election results: On Dec. 2, 2020, Brooks said he would vote against certification, the first member of Congress to make such an announcement. “I led the charge,” Brooks reportedly told Steve Bannon on Bannon’s podcast in September 2021.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Set up and attended the Dec. 21 White House meeting: The Jan. 6 committee obtained an email from Brooks to Meadows with the subject line “White House meeting December 21st regarding January 6,” in which Brooks discussed “the January 6th effort” and said “only citizens can exert the necessary influence on Senators and Congressmen to join this fight against massive voter fraud and election theft.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Participated in planning briefings and conversations with Jan. 6 rally organizers: Two organizers behind the Jan. 6 Trump rally in D.C. and others around the country said Brooks or an aide participated in planning discussions ahead of Jan. 6, Rolling Stone reported.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brooks did not respond to a request for comment. In comments to local media in October 2021, Brooks denied having any involvement in planning the Jan. 6 rally but did not say whether or not his staff was involved.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., sent an email to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows arranging a Dec. 21, 2020, White House meeting regarding Jan. 6 that was attended by at least 11 members of Congress, </span>according to evidence presented by the Jan. 6 committee. (C-SPAN)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Spoke at Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally: Brooks was one of two congressmembers to speak at the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol. Brooks wore body armor and told the crowd: “Our ancestors sacrifice[d] their blood, their sweat, their tears, their fortunes and sometimes their lives to give us, their descendants, an America that is the greatest nation in world history. So I have a question for you: Are you willing to do the same?”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Named by “Stop the Steal” organizer as Jan. 6 co-planner: Brooks is one of three congressmen named by “Stop the Steal” rally organizer Ali Alexander as helping plan Jan. 6, during a livestream that day.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Requested pardons for himself and others: Brooks requested a blanket pardon for all members of Congress involved in the Dec. 21 meetin<b>g as well as “a handful of other members that weren’t at the Dec. 21 meeting,” Hutchinson testified. Five days after the Jan. 6 attack, Brooks emailed a pardon request “for Representative Gaetz, himself, and unnamed others,</b>” committee member Kinzinger said at the fifth hearing on June 23.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brooks did not respond to a request for comment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amplified false election claims: “And so there’s widespread evidence of fraud ‘cause people haven’t done their jobs. Durham and Barr will deserve a big notation in history when it’s written of the rise and fall of the United States. If they don’t clean up this mess, clean up the fraud, do your jobs and save this little experiment in self- government,” Gohmert said in Dec. 3, 2020, public remarks shown by the committee in its fifth hearing on June 23.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Sued Pence to reject electors: Gohmert was the lead plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against Pence on Dec. 27, 2020, in an effort to compel the vice president to interfere with the counting of Electoral College votes.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Appeared to call for violence to overthrow election results: On Jan. 2, Gohmert went on Newsmax and appeared to call for violence, while declaring that letting the election results stand would “mean the end of our republic,</span> the end of the experiment in self-government.” The rhetoric was worrisome enough for Capitol Police to prepare an intelligence assessment on Gohmert’s comments. He later said he was not calling for violence.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Attended Dec. 21 White House meeting: </span>Gohmert was among at least 11 lawmakers who met at the White House to help orchestrate efforts to overturn the election results, according to testimony and White House visitor logs obtained by the committee.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Participated in planning conversations with Jan. 6 rally organizers: Two organizers behind the Jan. 6 rally in D.C. and others around the country said Gohmert or an aide participated in planning discussions, Rolling Stone reported.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Requested a pardon: </b>Gohmert requested a pardon from the White House, Hutchinson said in videotaped testimony played on June 23.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gohmert did not respond to a request for comment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Participated in early stages of White House Jan. 6 discussions: Greene, while still congresswoman-elect, was part of a core group of four congressmembers or members-elect involved in raising the idea that Pence might have a role other than simply counting the electoral votes on Jan. 6, Hutchinson testified.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Attended and helped organize the Dec. 21 White House meeting: </b>Greene testified that she was central to planning the Dec. 21 meeting with lawmakers at the White House about overturning the election. “I called President Trump on [Dec. 19, 2020,] and — and said we’ve got to have a meeting. There’s many of us that feel like this election has been stolen,” Greene testified.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Spoke repeatedly with Jan. 6 rally organizers:</b> Two organizers behind the Jan. 6 rally in D.C. and others around the country said Greene participated in several “planning briefings” ahead of Jan. 6, Rolling Stone reported.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Texted with Meadows about organizing for Jan. 6: “Good morning Mark, I’m here in DC. We have to get organized for the 6th,” Greene reportedly texted Meadows on Dec. 31, 2020. “I would like to meet with Rudy Giuliani again. We didn’t get to speak with him long. Also anyone who can help. We are getting a lot of members on board. And we need to lay out the best case for each state. I’ll be over at CPI this afternoon.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Texted false claims to Meadows: “Last night Sen Graham told me that if I found 100 names of dead voters in GA that he would object. I have 100 dead voters names!! … Tell President Trump!” Greene wrote to Meadows on Jan. 5, according to text messages obtained by CNN.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Texted Meadows asking Trump to urge calm during Capitol riot: In other text messages reportedly sent during the Capitol attack, Greene urged peace, asking Meadows to “tell the President to calm people This isn’t the way to solve anything.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After Jan. 6 efforts failed, suggested Trump impose martial law: “In our private chat with only Members, several are saying the only way to save our Republic is for Trump to call for Marshall [sic] law. I don’t know on those things,” Greene reportedly texted Meadows on Jan. 17. “I just wanted you to tell him. They stole this election. We all know. They will destroy our country next. Please tell him to declassify as much as possible so we can go after Biden and anyone else!”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Requested a pardon: Greene “asked White House Counsel’s Office for a pardon,” Hutchinson said in videotaped testimony played at the fifth hearing on June 23.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Greene did not respond to a request for comment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amplified false election claims: “Again, I join my colleagues in calling on Attorney General Bill Barr to immediately let us know what he’s doing,” Biggs said in Dec. 3, 2020, public remarks shown by the committee in its fifth hearing on June 23.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Attended Dec. 21 White House meeting:</span> Biggs was among at least 11 lawmakers who met at the White House to help orchestrate efforts to overturn the election results, according to testimony and White House visitor logs obtained by the committee.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pressured Arizona legislature to decertify electors: Biggs called Republican Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers on the morning of Jan. 6 and “asked if I would sign on both to a letter that had been sent from my state and/or that I would support the decertification of the electors,” Bowers testified in the committee’s fourth hearing.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Participated in planning conversations with Jan. 6 rally organizers: T</b>wo organizers behind the Jan. 6 rally in D.C. and others around the country said Biggs or an aide participated in planning discussions, Rolling Stone reported.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Named by “Stop the Steal” rally organizer as Jan. 6 co-planner</b>: Biggs is one of three congressmen named by “Stop the Steal” rally organizer Alexander as helping plan Jan. 6, during a livestream that day.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Requested a pardon: </b>Biggs requested a pardon from the White House, Hutchinson said in videotaped testimony played on June 23.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Biggs did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amplified false election claims: “We’re already working on and challenging the certified electors. And then what about the courts? How pathetic are the courts?” Gosar said in Dec. 19, 2020, public remarks shown by the committee in its fifth hearing on June 23.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Attended Dec. 21 White House meeting:</span> Gosar was among at least 11 lawmakers who met at the White House to help orchestrate efforts to overturn the election results, according to testimony and White House visitor logs obtained by the committee.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Participated in planning conversations with Jan. 6 rally organizers: Two organizers behind the Jan. 6 rally in D.C. and others around the country said Gosar or an aide participated in planning discussions, Rolling Stone reported</b>.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Named by “Stop the Steal” rally organizer as Jan. 6 co-planner:</b> Gosar is one of three congressmen named by “Stop the Steal” rally organizer Alexander as helping plan Jan. 6, during a livestream that day.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gosar did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amplified false election claims: “January 6th, I’m joining with the fighters in the Congress. And we are going to object to electors from states that did run clean elections. … Democracy is left undefended if we accept the result of a stolen election without fighting with every bit of vigor we can muster,” Gaetz said in Dec. 20, 2020, public remarks shown by the committee in its fifth hearing on June 23.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Attended Dec. 21 White House meeting: Gaetz was among at least 11 lawmakers who met at the White House to help orchestrate efforts to overturn the election results, according to testimony and White House visitor logs obtained by the committee.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Requested a blanket pardon: Gaetz, along with Brooks, requested a blanket pardon for all members of Congress involved in the Dec. 21 meeting </b>as well as “a handful of other members that weren’t at the December 21st meeting,” Hutchinson testified.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Former White House Presidential Personnel Office director Johnny McEntee testified that Gaetz “had hinted at a blanket pardon for the January 6th thing for anybody.” </span>Former White House attorney Eric Herschmann testified that the pardon Gaetz was discussing requesting “was as broad as you can describe, from beginning — I remember he’s — from the beginning of time up until today for any and all things.” In April, before Gaetz’s alleged pardon request was discussed by the committee, Trump issued a statement denying Gaetz asked him for a pardon in response to a New York Times report regarding non-election-related allegations about Gaetz.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gaetz did not respond to a request for comment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Participated in early stages of White House Jan. 6 discussions: Boebert, while still congresswoman-elect, was among the core group of four congressmembers or members-elect involved in raising the idea that Pence might have a role other than simply counting the electoral votes on Jan. 6, Hutchinson testified.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Participated in planning conversations with Jan. 6 rally organizers: Two organizers behind the Jan. 6 rally in D.C. and others around the country said Boebert or an aide participated in planning discussions, </b>Rolling Stone reported.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tweeted “Today is 1776″: At 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 6, Boebert tweeted: “Today is 1776,” a rally cry repeated by the mob as it broke into the Capitol later that day.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Boebert did not respond to a request for comment. <b>She condemned the violence on Jan. 6 in a statement on Jan. 11, 2021.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Attended Dec. 21 White House meeting:</span> Harris was among at least 11 lawmakers who met at the White House to help orchestrate efforts to overturn the election results, according to testimony and White House visitor logs obtained by the committee.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Harris did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Attended Dec. 21 White House meeting</span>: Babin was among at least 11 lawmakers who met at the White House to help orchestrate efforts to overturn the election results, according to testimony and White House visitor logs obtained by the committee.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Babin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div>