Utah Sen. Mike Lee often describes his political ideology as strict adherence to the U.S. Constitution.
Transcripts, documents, text messages and the final report from the House Jan. 6th Committee show Lee actively tried to keep Donald Trump in the White House, despite Trump’s loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election, and only abandoned the plot when it threatened to expand beyond that constitutional framework.
Text messages between Lee and then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows show Lee was part of the effort to overturn Trump’s election loss starting when Biden was declared the winner on November 7, 2020.
The Jan. 6 committee has now revealed that Lee was communicating with top Trump campaign legal adviser Cleta Mitchell that same day about strategies for keeping Trump in office. Mitchell was part of the now-infamous phone call where Trump pressured Georgia election officials to “find” enough votes to give him the win in that state.
“What should I be doing right now? I’m trying to find out what’s winnable and what isn’t,” Lee texted Mitchell, according to the transcript of her testimony to the House Jan. 6 committee.
“I suspect that the only way to win this election would involve identifying systemic fraud,” Lee added.
A month later, Mitchell texted Lee, telling him, “the Senate should...
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