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Fox News Hosts, Don Jr. Texted Meadows To Ask Trump To End Jan 6 Riot [Video]
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- The Jan. 6 select committee recommended that the House hold Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena.
- The panel revealed a spate of text messages that Meadows had received on Jan. 6.
- Rep. Liz Cheney read several messages including from Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham and Donald Trump Jr., asking Meadows to get the president to take action.
Fox News hosts, Republican lawmakers, and Donald Trump Jr all texted the former White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, during the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. As the riot was unfolding, the messages urged Meadows to ask former President Donald Trump to do something and end the destruction unfolding in the halls of Congress.
Rep. Liz Cheney, a co-chair of the House committee, read aloud a spate of text messages between some of Trump’s most vocal supporters and Meadows.
“Can he make a statement? Ask people to leave the Capitol?” Fox News’ Sean Hannity texted to Meadows during the riot, seeking action from Trump.
“Mark, the president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home,” Fox News host Laura Ingraham texted.
“Please get him on TV,” the network’s Brian Kilmeade wrote. “Destroying everything you have accomplished.”
Cheney said there were “dozens” of texts encouraging Meadows to intervene to encourage “immediate action by the president.” The Republican congresswoman said Donald Trump Jr. repeatedly texted Meadows during the Capitol riot.
“He’s got to condemn this s*** ASAP. The Capitol Police tweet is not enough,” Trump Jr., texted.
“I’m pushing it hard,” Meadows replied. “I agree.”
“We need an Oval Office address. He has to lead now,” Trump Jr. said. “It has gone too far and gotten out of hand.”
Trump, however, did not respond to the pleas, an absence of action that Cheney called his “supreme dereliction of duty.”
As part of the select committee’s investigation, Meadows has turned over about 6,600 pages of records taken from his personal email accounts and about 2,000 text messages, The Associated Press reported Sunday. In one of those emails, Meadows said the National Guard would be available to “protect pro-Trump people” during the initial Jan. 6 gathering protesting the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The panel has said it wants to know more about those plans, but Meadows has so far refused to testify. In a unanimous 9-0 vote, the committee recommended that Meadows be held in contempt of Congress for his refusal to testify before lawmakers.
He is the latest member of Trump’s inner circle who the panel has recommended be held in contempt of Congress. The list includes Trump’s former confidant and White House strategist Steve Bannon.
Source: HuffPost
Julia Ontiveros
December 15, 2021 at 11:17 am
And?? So people wanted to stop the breaching of the Capitol building by some bad apples in the crowd! Well good for them!
bruce
December 15, 2021 at 1:12 pm
Its real simple from those text messages. No one on the staff of Trump, and Trump himself, knew anything about protestors getting out of hand. It is getting pretty obvious that the riot (if it was even that) got ginned up by police allowing people in peacefully, then charging them with a swat team with flash grenades. Nothing would have happened if someone in the admin hadn’t ordered that and attacked Americans in and around the capitol. There also might have been several FBI, BLM and ANTIFA plants in the group that stirred things up. But the committee will conveniently not investigate that part. It goes against their fake narrative that is based on nothing more than hate and fear.
Tom
December 15, 2021 at 2:13 pm
Why two Sargent of Arms let go and a Police Chief Sounds like the leaders of both houses wanted something to happen to make a President look bad. Why 4 police officers commit suicide or were they shut up by murder.
Barbara
December 15, 2021 at 5:39 pm
Unless President Trump had a Bull Horn and was in a helicopter flying above the rioters there was no platform by which the President could have communicated his desire to have them stop the riot!!! Nobody was listening to their cellphones at the time, and those who were would have been powerless to influence the rioters.