Meadows declared he would have the National Guard ready to defend Trump supporters on the day of the insurrection, according to congressional investigators.
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sent an email saying the National Guard would be present to ‘protect pro Trump people’ [and that many more would be available on standby] in the lead-up to the U.S. Capitol insurrection, according to a new report released by the January 6 committee Sunday night. It was just one of several new details in the report about Meadows’s actions before and during January 6, as well as his role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election.
As the report notes, while a member of Congress deemed the alternate-electors part of the plan “highly controversial,” Meadows responded to the proposal by writing, “I love it.” It also mentions the fact that the former White House chief of staff “exchanged text messages with, and provided guidance to, an organizer of the January 6th rally on the Ellipse after the organizer told him that ‘[t]hings have gotten crazy and I desperately need some direction.
So naturally, the committee has many outstanding questions it would like Meadows to answer, and the way it sees it, it has “no choice” but to move forward with criminal contempt proceedings. The panel will convene on Monday to advance its report for a full House vote to take place as early as this week, the final step before sending its recommendation to the Department of Justice.
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