Mark Meadows’ Texts Reportedly Show Trump Allies Urging President To Calm Rioters On January 6 After Pushing Efforts To Overturn Results

Mark Meadows’ Texts Reportedly Show Trump Allies Urging President To Calm Rioters On January 6 After Pushing Efforts To Overturn Results

Share to Linkedin Several ardent supporters of former President Donald Trump, including his son Donald Trump Jr., and Republican lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga.) urged the president to take more steps to quell violence on January 6, even as many continued to push conspiracy theories about election fraud and advocated for efforts to overturn results, according to thousands of text messages sent and received by Trump's White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and obtained by CNN. Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows speaks to members of the press outside the White ... [+] House. The texts, which hadn't been seen before and were sent to the Jan. 6 committee before Meadows decided to stop cooperating with the panel, include 2, 319 messages the former White House chief of staff exchanged with a host of the president's supporters, including Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, Rudy Giuliani and Fox News Host Sean Hannity, between Election Day 2020 and President Joe Biden's inauguration on January 20, CNN reported. The texts show several in Trump's inner circle urging the president to call for an end to violence as his supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, including his