The Stupid Coup, Part Infinity

Lucky #4 Mark Meadows

Somehow CNN (now NOT BREAKING!!1!) got their filthy, hippie paws on even MORE text messages from Hair Füror’s Lucky No. 4 Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. To be exact: 2,319 of  ’em.

The vast trove of texts offers the most revealing picture to date of how Trump’s inner circle, supporters and Republican lawmakers worked behind the scenes to try to overturn the election results and then reacted to the violence that effort unleashed at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.

The logs, which Meadows selectively provided to the House committee investigating the January 6 attack, show how the former chief of staff was at the nexus of sprawling conspiracy theories baselessly claiming the election had been stolen. They also demonstrate how he played a key role in the attempts to stop Biden’s certification on January 6.

The key word is “selectively,” so you know that there are other texts that he withheld, and Imma guess some of them might be, you know, important?

Anyway, CNN has published some of them in a timeline of sorts so we can play Stupid Coup with Meadows from the comfort of our own homes!

January 5, 2021 First up, Rep. 3-Names:

2:30 p.m.: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to Mark 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!!
2:30 p.m.: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to Mark Meadows
Tell President Trump!
2:30 p.m.: Mark Meadows to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Send them to him
2:31 p.m.: Mark Meadows to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Do you have senator Graham’s contact
2:31 p.m.: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to Mark Meadows
I do
2:31 p.m.: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to Mark Meadows
His cell
2:31 p.m.: Mark Meadows to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
Yes

Then we have Gym Jordan:

11:27 p.m.: Rep. Jim Jordan to Mark Meadows
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. ‘No legislative act,’ wrote Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 78, ‘contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.’ ‘The court in Hubbard v. Lowe reinforced this truth: ”That an unconstitutional statute is not a law at all is a proposition no longer open to discussion.’ ‘226 F. 135, 137 (SDNY 1915), appeal dismissed, 242 U.S. 654 (1916). ‘ Following this rationale, an unconstitutionally appointed elector, like an unconstitutionally enacted statute, is no elector at all.

And then on January 6 itself we know the exact moment that confirms Meadows knew what was going on (though he probably knew or should have known earlier):

2:35 p.m.: Mick Mulvaney to Mark Meadows
Mark: he needs to stop this, now. Can I do anything to help?
2:38 p.m.: Michael Shear to Mark Meadows
Hey mark. Protestors are literally storming the Capitol. Breaking windows on doors. Rushing in. Is Trump going to say something?
2:44 p.m.: Rep. Barry Loudermilk to Mark Meadows
It’s really bad up here on the hill.
2:44 p.m.: Rep. Barry Loudermilk to Mark Meadows
They have breached the Capitol.
2:45 p.m.: Jake Sherman to Mark Meadows
We are under siege in the cpaitol
2:45 p.m.: Jake Sherman to Mark Meadows
There’s an armed standoff at the house chamber door
2:45 p.m.: Jake Sherman to Mark Meadows
We’re all helpless
2:46 p.m.: Rep. Will Timmons to Mark Meadows
The president needs to stop this ASAP
2:47 p.m.: Mario Parker to Mark Meadows
Is Potus going to take the podium to quell this unrest?

Anyway, it’s like scrolling through his messaging app. There are household names from Fox News, CNN, the 4th Reich and so on.