U.S. Reps. Brian Babin and Louie Gohmert attended a White House meeting about whether the 2020 presidential election results could be overturned, according to visitor logs. Other Texans, including Alex Jones, urged supporters to challenge the results.
But it wasn’t immediately clear how Babin or Gohmert participated. The revelation, based on White House visitor logs, came during the seventh meeting of the committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection during which Trump supporters sought to stop Pence and Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s election win. Babin and Gohmert did not immediately respond Tuesday to requests for comment about the meeting.
Former White House counsel Pat Cipollone objected to efforts to overturn the results and was not allowed to be a part of a meeting between Trump, Pence and Eastman on Jan. 4, 2021. Tuesday’s hearing chronicled the time between Dec. 14, 2020 — the day the Electoral College voted to confirm Biden’s victory — until the day before the Capitol attack, charting how Trump and his allies continued last-ditch efforts to overturn the election results, even after it had become clear there was no widespread voter fraud.
The hearing linked Alexander and Jones to Roger Stone, a Trump adviser who helped lead conspiracy theories about the election. Kellye SoRelle, a lawyer for the far-right group Oath Keepers, told the committee in recorded testimony that the three people leading the “Stop the Steal” movement were Stone, Jones and Alexander.
Pierson texted another rally organizer that Trump “likes the crazies.” She messaged Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows saying, “Things have gotten crazy and I desperately need some direction. Please.” Jason Van Tatenhove, a former Oath Keepers spokesperson, was the other witness at Tuesday’s hearing. He said Rhodes, the Texan who founded the Oath Keepers, is a “militia leader.” Rhodes implored Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807, which allows the president to call up militias to put down a rebellion.
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