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We would have asked Mr. Meadows about emails regarding the deployment of the
National Guard on January 6th, including a January 5th email from Mr. Meadows
in which he indicates that the Guard would be present at the Capitol to, quote, ‘‘pro-
tect pro Trump people,’’ end quote.
In addition, we would have asked Mr. Meadows about specific text messages he
sent or received that he has produced to the select committee. Given Mr. Meadows’
production of these text messages to the select committee, they do not, in our view,
implicate any valid claim of executive or other privilege.
We would’ve specifically asked Mr. Meadows about text messages regarding ef-
forts to encourage Republican legislators in certain States to send alternate slates
of electors to Congress, including a message sent by Mr. Meadows on December 8th,
2020, in which Mr. Meadows said, quote, ‘‘We are,’’ end quote, and another text from
Mr. Meadows to someone else in which he said that, quote, ‘‘We have a team on
it,’’ end quote.
We would have asked Mr. Meadows about text messages sent to and from Mem-
bers of Congress, including text messages received from a Member of Congress in
November of 2020 regarding efforts to contact State legislators because, as Mr.
Meadows indicates in his text messages, quote, ‘‘POTUS wants to chat with them,’’
end quote, which reflects a direct communication with the President, as well as
texts in December of 2020 regarding the prospect of the President’s appointment of
Jeffrey Clark as Acting Attorney General.
We would’ve asked Mr. Meadows about text messages sent to and from another
Member of Congress in November of 2020, in which the member indicates that,
quote, the President asked him to call Governor Ducey, end quote, and in which Mr.
Meadows asks for contact information for the attorney general of Arizona to discuss
allegations of election fraud.
We would’ve asked Mr. Meadows about text messages sent to and received from
Members of the House of Representatives and the Senate about objections to the
certification of electors in certain States on January 6th. We would have asked him
about text messages sent to and received from a Senator regarding the Vice Presi-
dent’s power to reject electors, including a text in which Mr. Meadows recounts a
direct communication with President Trump who, according to Mr. Meadows in his
text messages, quote, ‘‘thinks the legislators have the power, but the VP has power
too,’’ end quote.
We would have asked Mr. Meadows about text messages sent to and received
from a media personality on December 12th, 2021, regarding the negative impact
of President Trump’s election challenges on the Senate runoff elections in Georgia,
President Trump’s prospects for election in 2024, and Mr. Meadows possible employ-
ment by a news channel.
We would’ve asked Mr. Meadows about text messages sent to and received from
an organizer of the January 6th events on the Ellipse about planning the event, in-
cluding details about who would speak at the event and where certain individuals
would be located.
We’d ask Mr. Meadows about text messages regarding President Trump’s January
2nd, 2021, phone call with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, including
texts to and from participants in the call as it took place, as well as text messages
to and received from Members of Congress after the call took place regarding strat-
egy for dealing with criticism of the call.
We would’ve asked Mr. Meadows about text messages exchanged with various in-
dividuals, including Members of Congress, on January 6th, both before, during, and
after the attack on the United States Capitol, including text messages encouraging
Mr. Meadows to facilitate a statement by President Trump discouraging violence at
the Capitol on January 6th, including a text exchange with a media personality who
had encouraged the presidential statement asking people to, quote, ‘‘peacefully leave
the Capitol,’’ end quote, as well as a text sent to one of—by one of the President’s
family members indicating that Mr. Meadows is, quote, ‘‘pushing hard,’’ end quote,
for a statement from President Trump to, quote, ‘‘condemn this shit,’’ end quote,
happening at the Capitol.
Text messages: We would ask Mr. Meadows questions about text messages reflect-
ing Mr. Meadows’ skepticism about public statements regarding allegations of elec-
tion fraud put forth by Sidney Powell and his skepticism about the veracity of
claims of tampering with Dominion voting machines.
In addition, we would’ve asked Mr. Meadows questions about specific representa-
tions in a book he has authored, The Chief’s Chief, in which he recounts various
facts relevant to the select committee’s investigation and directly describes commu-
nications with the President, including on page 259, quote, ‘‘A few sentences later,
President Trump ad libbed a line that no one had seen before, saying, ‘Now it is
up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. After this, we’re
going to walk down—and I’ll be there with you—we’re going to walk down to the