Spokespeople for Meadows and the House January 6 committee did not comment to CNN. Their testimonies are the closest lawmakers have come to the former president. This week, the committee interviewed Trump Jr’s sister, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner, both former senior White House advisers. Given the date, this message likely originated from someone else and was forwarded.”ĬNN said the Trump Jr text had been obtained by the House committee investigating the Capitol attack. Trump Jr’s lawyer, Alan Futerfas, told CNN: “After the election, Don received numerous messages from supporters and others. In the immediate aftermath of the Capitol riot, 147 Republicans in Congress voted to object to results in key states. Such tactics included lawsuits in swing states, the overwhelming majority of which were rejected, and “having a handful of Republican state houses put forward slates of fake ‘ Trump electors’”.ĬNN also said Trump Jr suggested that if such measures didn’t work, lawmakers in Congress could dismiss the electoral results and vote to keep Trump in office. A bipartisan Senate report connected seven deaths to the riot.Īccording to CNN, in his texts to Meadows, Trump Jr laid out strategies the Trump team went on to pursue as they disseminated lies about election fraud and pressured state and federal officials.
Two months after 5 November, on 6 January 2021, supporters Trump told to “fight like hell” in his cause attacked the US Capitol. One leading legal authority called the text “a smoking rifle”.ĬNN said the text was sent on 5 November 2020, two days before Joe Biden was declared the winner of the election and the next president. “This is what we need to do please read it and please get it to everyone that needs to see it because I’m not sure we’re doing it,” Trump Jr reportedly wrote, adding: “It’s very simple … We have multiple paths We control them all.”
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