Election 2020

Mark Meadows Wanted to Give Trump Swag to Officials Willing to Overturn 2020 Election, Like MAGA Hats and Coins

The House select committee investigating January 6 keeps uncovering evidence that’s really pretty mind-boggling at times. Add to that a set of text messages that suggest ex-president Donald Trump’s then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows hoped to send gifts to Georgia investigators — these gifts would include “a sh*tload of POTUS stuff,” said one White House aide, The Independent reports. The items included coins, autographed MAGA hats, and other items.

At the time, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s chief investigator Frances Watson was supervising Georgia’s vote-auditing process. Meadows orchestrated a call between Trump and Watson, and as you might expect, the then-president repeated his favorite lie that he had won the presidential election in Georgia.

“When the right answer comes out you’ll be praised,” Trump told her, later adding “whatever you can do.”

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who’s a member of the committee noted during Tuesday’s hearing that “the Select Committee has received text messages indicating that Mark Meadows wanted to send some of the investigators in her office, in the words of one White House aide, ‘a sh*tload of POTUS stuff,’ including coins, actual autographed MAGA hats, etc.”

“White House staff intervened to make sure that didn’t happen,” Schiff said.

In his call to Watson, Trump also said January 6 was a “very important date.”

Incredibly, Meadows texted Raffensperger’s office 18 times, attempting to schedule a call between Trump and Raffensperger, Schiff said.

“They were quite persistent,” he said. He noted Meadows even “took the ordinary step” of visiting Georgia, where he met Watson, who subsequently spoke to Trump on December 23.

Other texts include one on November 19, 2020, in which Meadows asked Raffensperger to “give me a brief call at your convenience.”

Then on December 5, he wrote “Mr. Secretary. Can you call the White House switchboard … For a call. Your voicemail is full.”

During a call between Trump and Raffensperger, where Trump was, of course, pressing him to “find” the votes needed for the state’s election results to be overturned. That led to a text message from Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs to Meadows that said they needed to “end this call,” CNN reports.

“I don’t think this will be productive much longer,” she said. “Let’s save the relationship.”

I think that’s one of the nicest ways I’ve ever heard someone say “quit bothering us. You’re not going to get what you want.”

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Megan has lived in California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida and she currently lives in Central America. Living in these places has informed her writing on politics, science, and history. She is currently owned by 15 cats and 3 dogs and regularly owns Trump supporters when she has the opportunity. She can be found on Twitter at https://twitter.com/GaiaLibra and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/politicalsaurus

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