PowerPoint Report Shows Mark Meadows Met Multiple Times At The White House With Retired Military Officer Tied To Jan 6th Riot

This is coup coup.


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The Washington Post reports that a retired U.S. Army colonel who supported overturning the 2020 election results, including by declaring a national security emergency and seizing paper ballots, told the outlet that he visited the White House on multiple occasions after the election, and poke with now-former-President Donald Trump’s chief of staff “maybe eight to 10 times.” Philip Waldron, the retired colonel, also briefed several members of Congress on the eve of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. When the twice-impeached one-term president talks of a rigged election, he wasn’t wrong. Trump has been trying to rig it at every turn.

According to the report, Waldron “was working with Trump’s outside lawyers and was part of a team that briefed the lawmakers on a PowerPoint presentation detailing “Options for 6 JAN,” Waldron told The Washington Post. He said his contribution to the presentation focused on his claims of foreign interference in the vote, as did his discussions with the White House.”

“A version of the presentation made its way to the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, on Jan. 5. That information surfaced publicly this week after the congressional committee investigating the insurrection released a letter that said Meadows had turned the document over to the committee,” the report continues.

“The presentation was that there was significant foreign interference in the election; here’s the proof,” Waldron said. “These are constitutional, legal, feasible, acceptable, and suitable courses of action.”

“One person familiar with what Waldron called a “shopping list” confirmed the efforts to assemble it,” the Post reports. “Waldron said Meadows indicated that he would pass the list on to John Ratcliffe, then the director of national intelligence, but said he did not know whether Meadows ultimately did. Through a spokesman, Ratcliffe said he did not receive such a document.”

“Waldron said that he and Meadows “weren’t pen pals” and that their communication was often through Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani, who sometimes asked him to “explain this to Mark” over the phone. Giuliani did not respond to requests for comment,” the report continues,

“Waldron told The Post that he also attended a Nov. 25 meeting with Trump and several Pennsylvania legislators in the Oval Office. A person familiar with that meeting confirmed Waldron’s presence,” the report adds. “Waldron said he also once briefed Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) at the White House, in the chief of staff’s office, with Giuliani present.”

How many Republicans knew about this? They were planning a coup out in the open, and they put their plan on PowerPoint. That’s a lot to unpack.

You can read the full report here.

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