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LEAK: Trump Allies Grasp At Straws While Plotting Coup Attempt
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April 16, 2022
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9:26Now PlayingMore leaked texts from Trump allies reveal just how far some Republicans were willing to go to keep Trump in power as Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Chip Roy reportedly warned Mark Meadows about the consequences of attempting to overthrow the election. Once staunch supporters of the overthrow effort, Lee and Roy seemingly backpedaled as January 6th drew near, with both getting cold feet over how the insurrection attempt would effectively destroy our country’s government for good. John Iadarola, Francesca Fiorentini, and Farron Cousins discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 68 pm ET.
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"In the weeks between the 2020 election and the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, almost 100 text messages from two staunch GOP allies of then-President Donald Trump reveal an aggressive attempt to lobby, encourage and eventually warn the White House over its efforts to overturn the election, according to messages obtained by the House select committee and reviewed by CNN.
The texts, which have not been previously reported, were sent by Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. The text exchanges show that both members of Congress initially supported legal challenges to the election but ultimately came to sour on the effort and the tactics deployed by Trump and his team.
“We’re driving a stake in the heart of the federal republic,” Roy texted Meadows on January 1. That text was first released in December by the House select committee and described as being written by a House Freedom Caucus member. Roy’s authorship has not been previously reported.
When situated in the overall timeline of events between the election and January 6, the series of texts from Lee and Roy provide new details about how two Trump allies went from fierce advocates of the former President’s push to overturn Joe Biden’s win to disheartened bystanders. By January 3, Lee was texting Meadows that the effort “could all backfire badly.”"
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