Article 5YJ2E Marjorie Taylor Greene texted Trump chief of staff urging martial law to overturn 2020 election

Marjorie Taylor Greene texted Trump chief of staff urging martial law to overturn 2020 election

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Hugo Lowell in Washington DC
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Records Mark Meadows released to January 6 committee are missing texts from from critical 12-day period

Days before Joe Biden's presidential inauguration, Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared in a text to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to press for Donald Trump to overturn his 2020 election defeat by invoking martial law, new messages show.

The message - one of more than 2,000 texts turned over by Meadows to the House select committee investigating January 6 and first reported by CNN - shows that some of Trump's most ardent allies on Capitol Hill were pressing for Trump to return himself to office even after the Capitol attack.

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