Marjorie Taylor Greene texted Trump chief of staff urging martial law to overturn 2020 election
by Hugo Lowell in Washington DC from US news | The Guardian on (#5YJ2E)
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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