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Several current members of Congress have been suspected of having prior knowledge of the insurrection in an effort to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory. A recent report revealed that several Republican senators and congressmen were briefed on the 38-page Powerpoint presentation detailing how to overturn the 2020 election results.
The Guardian revealed last week that the 38-page presentation detailing how the Republican Party can stage a coup following the 2020 elections was presented to a group of GOP senators and congressmen on January 4, two days before the Capitol insurrection. The lawmakers were not named in the report. The lawmakers also do not appear to have contacted the FBI or the public regarding the coup attempt.
The PowerPoint presentation was turned over to the House Committee by former President Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows during his initial cooperation with the panel. Meadows claimed that it was emailed to him, but it was not implemented. However, the slideshow revealed that the presentation should be briefed to Republican members of Congress.
“Senators and members of Congress should first be briefed about foreign interference, the PowerPoint said, at which point Trump could declare a national emergency, declare all electronic voting invalid, and ask Congress to agree on a constitutionally, acceptable remedy,” according to the outlet, which saw a version of the memo.
The New York Times also added that the coup Powerpoint also included a claim that either China or Venezuela had taken control over the voting infrastructure over most of the states. The claim is false.
Meanwhile, the House Committee presented a 52-page document to make a case for the House to vote Meadows for criminal contempt. The report also includes a list of people who called Meadows begging for the now-former president to stop the insurrection that was occurring. While there are those who tried to call the former president himself, Trump was not answering a lot of calls, leading people to turn to other Trump administration officials, including family members like White House advisers Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
The report also revealed that Meadows got text messages from a media personality, telling him to tell the now-former president to issue a statement telling his mob of supporters to leave the Capitol “peacefully.”
