Trump Jr.'s text reveals plans to overthrow the 2020 election
Key Takeaways
- Two days after the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump Jr. texted White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows with intentions to change the outcome if Trump's father loses.
CNN reported Friday that Donald Trump Jr. texted White House top of the staff, Mark Meadows, 2 days after the 2020 presidential election with plans to alter the outcome if Trump's father loses.
ACCORDING TO CNN, the SMS was sent two days before Joe Biden was proclaimed the winner. It allegedly outlined techniques that then-President Donald Trump's team pursued in the months afterward. They spread false information about election fraud and encouraged state and federal officials to help.
Trump Jr.'s text made "particular mention to filing lawsuits and demanding recounts to prevent certain swing states from certifying their results," according to the cable news network. It also implied that if those measures failed, Congress could ignore the election results and vote to keep President Trump in office.
"After the election, Don got countless messages from supporters and others," Trump Jr.'s lawyer Alan S. Futerfas stated in a statement to CNN on Friday. Given the date, this mail was most likely forwarded from someone else."
According to CNN, the House committee investigating the attack on the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, got the Trump Jr. text. Throughout the previous week, the committee interviewed former President Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner. Their virtual depositions are the closest legislators have come to meeting the former president.
Separately, Ali Alexander, a conservative activist who helped found the "Stop the Steal" movement, announced on Friday that he had gotten a subpoena to testify before a federal grand jury as part of the Justice Department's investigation into the uprising.
Alexander said that the subpoena was for information about the "Save America Rally" at the Ellipse, staged by the pro-Trump nonprofit Women for America First and attended by hundreds before a surge of Trump supporters poured into the Capitol on Jan. 6.
"I don't feel I have any information that will be valuable to them," he said. "However, I'm complying as best I can, reaffirming that I am not a target because I did nothing wrong."
Alexander willingly came before a House subcommittee investigating the insurgency in December, handing over a deluge of documents and information regarding his communications with politicians to congressional investigators.
Alexander's lawyers claim in court records that he told congressional investigators he had "a few phone calls" with Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., and exchanged text messages with Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., in days leading up to the Jan. 6 demonstrations.
"I did nothing wrong, and I have no indication that anyone else was planning to do crimes," Alexander stated. "I oppose anyone who planned to perform any unproductive activity on Capitol grounds during my approved event and the other permitted events that day."