Opinion: Panicky texts to Mark Meadows paint a damning picture
Panicky texts sent by various Fox News anchors and members of the Republican Party to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows as rioters overtook the US Capitol complex on January 6 tell a damning story. These messages suggest the extent to which many members of the GOP -- and their Fox News sympathizers -- have been deliberately misleading the American people for nearly a year, downplaying a devastating and deadly attack on the seat of American democracy.
On Jan. 6, insurrectionists descended on the Capitol, proclaiming their support for former President Donald Trump, who lost to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Many of the rioters parroted Trump's claim that the vote was rigged, and they were in Washington, DC, heeding his call to reject the results of a free and fair election.
They stormed the Capitol complex, leaving a path of destruction in their wake: Police officers and others seriously injured, five dead in the end, and the heart of the American project seriously damaged. More than 700 people have now been charged in connection with the riots, and more than 120 have pleaded guilty.
But to hear Fox News anchors and many in the Republican Party tell it, Democrats are wildly exaggerating what happened on Jan. 6. And yet it turns out, according to these text messages read aloud Monday by Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney that many of them knew how bad the violence was then and begged the then-president, via his chief of staff Meadows, to do something about it. Prominent Fox News commentators and hosts, including Laura Ingraham, Brian Kilmeade and Sean Hannity, all sent frantic texts to Meadows. So did the president's son, Donald Trump Jr. So did multiple members of Congress.
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that the Fox News Liar Crew were having meltdowns on January 6th and thought that the orange headed buffoon had lost his mind and gone off the deep end. Well, he did. And their phony crap has been exposed. They're afraid that people will see through their bull and stop watching, costing them money.
