The committee noted that an email sent to an individual in Meadows about January 6 said that “the National Guard will be present to ‘protect pro-Trump people’ and that many more will be available on standby, according to the report.” ” The new documents come as Meadows’ role comes under renewed scrutiny following her decision to stop cooperating with the committee last week.
Committee chairman Benny Thompson said in a letter to Meadows’ attorney last week about a January 5 email about placing the National Guard on standby that the panel would proceed with contempt proceedings.
Thompson also referred to the November 7, 2020 email that discussed the appointment of an alternate slate of voters as part of a “direct and collateral attack” and the January 5 email containing a 38-page PowerPoint briefing that The title was “Election Fraud, Foreign Interference and the January 6 Alternatives to be Provided “On the Hill”.
Meadows, according to the report, “received text messages and emails in some states about explicit efforts to encourage Republican legislators to send alternate slates of voters to Congress, a plan that one member of Congress acknowledged was ‘excessive’.” controversial’ and to which Mr. Meadows replied, ‘I love it.'”
“Mr Meadows replied to a similar message saying ‘[w]E hain’ and another similar message saying ‘yes’. There is a team on this,” the report said.
Additionally, the committee noted that Meadows “exchanged text messages, and provided guidance to an organizer of a January 6 rally on the ellipsoid, when the organizer told her that ‘