Junior Texted Meadows With Plot To Overturn Election

CNN reports:

Two days after the 2020 presidential election, as votes were still being tallied, Donald Trump’s eldest son texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that “we have operational control” to ensure his father would get a second term, with Republican majorities in the US Senate and swing state legislatures, CNN has learned.

In the text, which has not been previously reported, Donald Trump Jr. lays out ideas for keeping his father in power by subverting the Electoral College process, according to the message reviewed by CNN. The text is among records obtained by the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021.

“It’s very simple,” Trump Jr. texted to Meadows. “We have multiple paths We control them all.” Trump Jr. makes specific reference to filing lawsuits and advocating recounts to prevent certain swing states from certifying their results, as well as having a handful of Republican state houses put forward slates of fake “Trump electors.”

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?NEW—> @CNN Exclusive: ‘We control them all’: Donald Trump Jr. texted Meadows detailed plan for overturning 2020 election before it was called
w/ @ZcohenCNN & @AnnieGrayerCNN https://t.co/E2SrDS4QRz

— Ryan Nobles (@ryanobles) April 8, 2022

“It’s very simple. We have multiple paths. We control them all. We have operational control. Total leverage. Moral high ground. POTUS must start second term now.” – Junior’s text to Mark Meadows leading up to J6. https://t.co/Dra03pzx4r

— Ron Filipkowski ?? (@RonFilipkowski) April 8, 2022

The plan for 2020, and now 2024, in a nutshell: “Republicans control Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina etc we get Trump electors” https://t.co/m1Dxar61aB

— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) April 8, 2022