Talking Points Memo, which obtained the text messages, has published a series of reports on the revelations, including this one yesterday:

Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA) is not one of the better-known figures in the extended universe of former President Trump’s political allies. However, based on text messages obtained by TPM, Allen is one of the members of Congress who worked most aggressively behind the scenes to reverse Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. Allen’s attempts to challenge the vote included passing unproven YouTube conspiracy videos from Romania to the White House and pressuring Georgia’s secretary of state. At least one of the paranoid election theories Allen texted to Meadows made its way directly to Trump.

The texts from the Georgia Republican make the congressman appear to be rather nutty. Allen tried to bolster his many strange claims with secret sources and videos he found on YouTube, which TPM described as “utterly fantastical.”.....

Indeed, it’s a recurring takeaway from the larger collection of texts sent to the then-White House chief of staff. Then-Rep. Ted Budd of North Carolina texted Meadows on Nov. 7 — the day Joe Biden was named the president-elect — and shared a ridiculous message about conspiratorial links between Dominion Voting Systems and billionaire George Soros.

Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania apparently believed there were secret Italian satellites rigging American voting machines and the Trump-appointed CIA director was in cahoots with the British.

Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona, pushing a line that apparently originated with Alex Jones’ InfoWars website, argued that China had secretly purchased Dominion.

Obviously, the claims were baseless. But just as important is the fact that each of these Republicans weren’t peddling foolish arguments to raise money or line up cable-news appearances, they were peddling foolish arguments because they were oblivious as to their foolishness.

Twitter is reportedly auctioning off items from its headquarters and has not paid rent at its San Francisco and global office for several weeks in a bid to slash costs.

Elon Musk, who acquired the company in late October following a chaotic legal battle, has been trying to renegotiate the terms of the lease agreement, The New York Times reported, citing two people familiar with the discussion.

The company has received complaints from real estate and management firms like Shorenstein, which owns Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters.

The firm declined to comment when reached by FOX Business. Twitter cut its communications department following Musk’s takeover.

The company, meanwhile, is auctioning dozens of items of furniture, appliances, and memorabilia, including a large Twitter bird statue, a giant "@" sculpture, and other less interesting items like espresso machines and chairs.

The auction will be conducted online starting on Jan. 17, 2023 and closing the next day, according to Heritage Global Partners, which is organizing the sale.

North Carolina’s probe of voter fraud allegations against former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has been completed and sent to the state’s attorney general, who will decide whether to press criminal charges.

The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation (NCSBI) announced Tuesday that the Meadows case file had been completed and submitted to Attorney General (AG) Josh Stein (D).

The bureau was investigating the former Trump White House official over allegations that he had registered to vote in the 2020 presidential election with the North Carolina address of a mobile home that The New Yorker reported he did not own and has never lived at.

Meadows, a former Republican congressman representing North Carolina in the U.S. House, reportedly cast an absentee ballot that year that had been mailed to his Washington, D.C., home.

Inputting false information during the voter registration process is a felony under both state and federal law.