‘These texts leave no doubt’: Rep. Liz Cheney reads Mark Meadows’ Jan. 6 texts aloud – By Aysha Qamar (Daily Kos) / December 14, 2021
On Monday evening, the House Jan. 6 Select Committee released texts related to the insurrection from those who attempted to connect with Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, as the attack occurred. In the texts read aloud by Rep. Liz Cheney, multiple individuals—including Fox News hosts and Donald Trump Jr.—begged for both Meadows and Trump to stop the violent attack by white supremacists and other Trump minions. Which, as we all know and my colleague Mark Sumner has reported, didn’t happen.
While Meadows refused to appear in front of the committee or testify, he did speak to Fox News about the texts—but not without insisting that the Select Committee’s move to add this evidence to the record is just another way to degrade Trump.
The texts are among the latest updates in the investigations connected to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.
“These texts leave no doubt,” Cheney said. “The White House knew exactly what was happening at the Capitol.”
