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Over the past few days, two revelations have brought the Jan. 6 insurrection inside Donald Trump’s White House: A PowerPoint presentation arguing for overturning the 2020 election, and a series of urgent text messages from allies of the former president begging for him to call off the riot.
The PowerPoint reached Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows on Jan. 5, who was held in contempt Monday night by the special committee probing the Capitol attack. The document, which echoes other false claims of voter fraud and calls for what experts have diagnosed as unconstitutional remedies, came to light after the former congressman shared it with the House committee.
Meadows also gave the panel the explosive texts — many from prominent Fox New personalities who have since played down the effort to overthrow the election — that show close Trump allies imploring the chief of staff to convince his boss to intervene to halt the violence.
Together, the records provide further insight into Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, a campaign that included dishonestly undermining faith in vote-by-mail, making false claims of fraud, and heaping private pressure on election officials, at least one of whom the former president directed,...
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