Rep. Andy Harris (Md.) was among at least 10 House Republicans who attended a December 2020 White House meeting with President Donald Trump to discuss actions that could be taken to keep Trump in power on Jan. 6, 2021, the committee investigating the attack on the Capitol revealed in its latest hearing.
Harris’s attendance indicates he was more intimately involved in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results than previously known, making him one of Trump’s closest allies in Congress as the president desperately tried to cling to power despite being told by White House lawyers and the Justice Department that there was no evidence of widespread election fraud.
“In the weeks after the election, the White House coordinated closely with President Trump’s allies in Congress to disseminate his false claims and to encourage members of the public to fight the outcome on January 6,” said Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.), who co-led the Tuesday hearing with Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.). “We know the president met with various members to discuss January 6 well before the joint session.”
Murphy said White House visitor logs showed that the president had a “private meeting with Republican members of Congress” on Dec. 21, a meeting that also included Vice President Mike Pence, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. The meeting had been previously disclosed in reporting at the time and in more-recent court documents.
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