David Corn: I Compared the New January 6 Texts to Mark Meadows' Book. It's Damning.

[babylonsister]

I Compared the New January 6 Texts to Mark Meadows’ Book. It’s Damning.
Trump’s last chief of staff is hiding what happened that awful day.
David Corn


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This is not how Meadows depicts January 6 in his own account, which devotes only a few pages to that day. He describes the pre-attack speech Trump delivered across from the White House—in which he whipped up the crowd with the Big Lie that the election had been stolen from him and urged the mob to head to the Capitol—as merely a final get-together between Trump and his supporters: “[H]e wanted to make sure that all those people he had met over his four years—the ones who had shown up to every rally, listened to his speeches, and written him letters about their frustrations with the establishment—would have one more chance to come together, make their voices heard, and encourage each other.”

Meadows is lying. For weeks, Trump-allied groups had been promoting this event as a chance to “save America” and “stop the steal,” not a fond farewell. In tweets, Trump had been encouraging people to attend. On December 19, he had tweeted, “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” Meadows forgets to mention this tweet.

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What a dramatic afternoon. Meadows was being besieged by lawmakers, fellow Trump officials, the stars of Fox News, and the president’s eldest son. Why would he leave all this out of his book? It’s gripping. It’s suspenseful. And why not reveal to his readers how he reacted to these pleas and what he did—or didn’t do—in response?

Meadows in the book presents no information to counter the impression Trump purposefully dawdled to see if the riot might work to his advantage and forestall the certification of Biden’s win. He does not address the various reports that cast Trump in a dark light: that Trump was practically giddy as he watched the violence on television, that when House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy urged Trump to intervene to halt the rampaging, he replied, “Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.”

Meadows is hiding what happened in the White House on January 6. It’s no wonder he does not want to testify. Trump’s failure to act that day—to heed all those pleas—is also Meadows’ failure.

This book is disinformation. Meadows peddles Trump’s propaganda. “I knew he didn’t lose,” Meadows declares of Trump and the 2020 election. How did he know this? The “excitement of the people” at Trump’s campaign rallies had been “palpable.” He says he had “spoken with dozens of peoples during those rallies” and they were “thrilled to be together.” (They were also “some of the kindest, most generous people I had ever met.”)

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/12/i-compared-the-new-january-6-texts-to-mark-meadows-book-its-damning/

[Generic Other]

1. Lock Him Up

Unbelievable!

[BlueJac]

10. Agree 100%

[dalton99a]

2. Meadows is a damn liar. No one should buy his book. It is full of deliberate disinformation

And it is a poor attempt at normalizing the traitor

[Hekate]

3. KnR

[MiHale]

4. When the rot of corruption is finally shown...

in the light of day, I believe most citizens will be terrifyingly shocked to see what they lived through. Plus the depths this reaches may implicate many more some from places we may not expect.

[DeeNice]

5. Can they really not grasp...

That however many people are at your rally, there are a lot more that aren't. Every time I hear someone using the rallies as some sort of "proof" that tfg couldn't have lost, I just want to scream at them. It means nothing. Most people don't go to political rallies and tfg's fans tend to follow him around like he's The Dead or something so there really aren't as many of them as the rally attendance might suggest. Still too many of them, however.

[Hortensis]

8. :) Corn's saying he's lying. Don't be too honest to understand

that RW agents like Meadows are busily working at cynically deceiving 150 million potential voters. Meadows does not believe what he wrote. If he did, he couldn't have written this book.

My husband keeps trying to "normalize" their behavior into something he can understand people doing, he's just that way, but it requires him to underestimate them enormously.

[maxsolomon]

11. It's so hard to tell if they're actually so dumb that they think the enthusiasm of cult members

means they couldn't have lost, or it's just another self-serving lie.

I'm starting to realize it's somehow both. They're seasoned, shameless sociopathic liars who have no idea how many people hate their fucking guts - and that would be a majority.

[MontanaMama]

6. It is only damming IF

he’s held accountable. Otherwise it’s just another day in Q town.

[Hela]

7. I remember this video and it's damning.

At the 2-minute mark: "Mark Meadows, a real fighter." All smiles there, Mr. Meadows. And Kimberly Guilfoyle telling people to "do the right thing and fight."

All of them traitors. Every. single. one. Too bad we don't have firing squads any more.

[WA-03 Democrat]

9. Agree!

They are hoping for a fight. They are fighting against the US Government and no one else. It was a failed but attempted political coup and everyone saw it.

[Escurumbele]

13. Question, if Don Jr was there with his dad, why did he have to text Meadows?

Couldn't he have talked to him directly? Maybe I don't know what the timeline of Jr was, and that is why he had to text.

Anyway, I think that when all these criminals saw that things were getting very ugly they decided to text in order to exempt themselves from any culpability in the planning...Things just didn't go as planned, and that is why someone texted "its gotten out of hands", the plan was to evacuate Pence and some house officials to disallow the count, Pence just didn't trust the people who would be driving him, and for whatever reason all the house officials decided to stay and not get on the buses...How did they come up with the buses so quickly? Not impossible, but questionable nonetheless.

[crickets]

19. This was filmed before the rally speeches.

The text flurries occurred hours later after the mob attacked the Capitol. tfg was back at the White House watching the show on TV by then.

[Mr. Ected]

12. Make him swear an oath and read from his book verbatim

Though there's no crime in bald-face lying in a book, lying under oath is a different matter entirely.

That's why he won't testify. His written word juxtaposed to his testimony would underscore each and every lie he speaks and writes of.

[Uncle Joe]

14. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread babylonsister.

[onecaliberal]

15. No one is buying his lieography. He needs to die in prison.

[dchill]

16. His "his lieography." Exactly.

He can add it to his fibliography.

[onecaliberal]

17. Indeed he can.

[lame54]

18. His diarrhea-ry

[Kingofalldems]

20. He'll turn and testify against Trump.