Texts from Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and MP Chip Roy (R-Texas) obtained by CNN show that the two men tried to help Mendous on how former President Trump should proceed, including legal its strategy. The texts show the first days after the election, both men supported Trump. Lee sent a message to Meadows on November 7, 2020, to offer his “unequivocal support to exhaust all legal and constitutional means at your disposal to restore American credibility in our election.” “This struggle is about the fundamental justice and integrity of our electoral system. The nation depends on your constant determination. “Stay strong and keep fighting, Mr. President,” he added. Roy also sent messages to Meadows the same day. “We need ammunition. We need examples of fraud. “We need it this weekend,” he said. On January 6, 2021, both men voted to certify the election results, hours after violent rioters stormed the Capitol. Roy said his vote “may well sign my political death warrant” but added that “the president should never have encouraged some Americans to believe something that simply could not be done”. Lee offered a similar refrain on the Senate floor: “Our job is very simple,” he said. “Our job is to gather to open the polls and count them. This is.” But both men have also been involved in Trump’s legal battles. Lee pressured Trump lawyer Sydney Powell to send a message to Meadows, also on November 7, 2020, in an attempt to get her to the Oval Office. “Sydney Powell says she has to go in to see the president, but they keep her away,” Lee wrote, sending her email and phone number. “Obviously he has a strategy to keep things alive and bring many states back into the game. Can you help her get in? “ Roy also spoke that day about the approach Trump should take. “We need to urge the president to soften his rhetoric and approach the legal challenge firmly, smartly and effectively without resorting to throwing out wild desperate grass growers or flogging his base in a conspiracy frenzy,” he said. A Roy spokesman told The Hill that the texts “speak for themselves”. Lee Lonsberry, Lee’s director of communications, said the text messages were consistent with his comments from the Senate chamber. “The text messages tell the same story that Senator Lee told from the floor of the Senate on the day he voted to certify the election results of every state in the nation. “They tell the story of an American senator fulfilling his duty to Utah and the American people following the Constitution,” Lonsbury said. The texts also showed that the men were more concerned about Trump’s legal efforts as the campaign continued, including a press conference on November 19, 2020 with Powell and fellow campaign lawyer Rudy Giuliani, in which he presented some electoral fraud. Powell, like Meadows, has been summoned by a House committee investigating the Capitol attack. He is also facing professional repercussions for making unfounded allegations of electoral fraud in court. After the media outlet, Lee said he was “concerned about Powell’s press conference.” “The possible responsibility for defamation of the president is significant here. For the campaign and for the president personally. “Unless Powell can support everything he said, which I doubt he can,” he wrote. Meadows replied that he was also “very worried.” The press conference also worried Roy. “Hello brother – we need substance or people will break,” the lawmaker wrote. Later that month, both lawmakers began rallying around John Eastman, who wrote two memoranda on Trump’s campaign outlining how to relax in the election, urging former Vice President Mike Pence to reject the Electoral College certification. In a lawsuit filed by Eastman seeking to block access to his files from the Jan. 6 panel, a judge ruled that he and Trump may have committed a crime in an attempt to block certification, calling it a “wanted coup.” of a legal theory. ” Privately, Roy also texted the Meadows in support of Eastman and criticized Giuliani. “Did you talk to John Eastman?” Roy wrote in Meadows on November 22, 2020. “Get Eastman to testify before the election council… Get data in front of the public sector.” “Frigging Rudy must be silent,” he added, excavating Giuliani. But by December, everyone was beginning to express more serious reservations about the campaign. “If you want senators to object, we need to hear from you about ideally receiving some guidance on the arguments we need to make,” Lee wrote Dec. 16. “I think we have gone beyond the point where we can expect someone to do it without any direction and strong argument.” And on New Year’s Eve, Roy suggested that he give up. “The president must withdraw everyone. It is the only way. “If we replace the will of the states through the electorate with a vote by Congress every 4 years… we have destroyed the electorate… With respect,” the Texas lawmaker wrote. On Jan. 3, Lee expressed similar concern about an illegal plan to send an alternate list of state voters to Congress. “I only know that this will end badly for the President, unless we have the Constitution on our side,” Lee wrote. “And if those states do not submit new Trump ballots under state law, we do not.” As the violence unfolded on January 6, Roy returned to the Meadows. How could the debate about trans women in sports affect the media? Russia uses long-range bombers in Mariupol, Ukraine says “This is a show,” he said. “Fix it now.” Updated: 11:27 a.m.
