House Freedom Caucus members were frequently present in meetings discussing strategies to keep then-President-elect Joe Biden from taking office, new evidence shows
Republican members of Congress were heavily involved in calls and meetings with former President Donald Trump and his top aides as they devised a strategy to overturn the election in December 2020, according toDeposition excerpts filed by the Jan 6.
“They felt that he had the authority to — pardon me if my phrasing isn’t correct on this, but — send votes back to the States or the electors back to the States,” Hutchinson recalled. The committee indicated that Meadows told Jordan in a text message that he supported efforts to convince Pence to send the election back to the states.
Others attended a Dec. 21 meeting where Rudy Giuliani, then the president’s personal lawyer, and some associates advocated a plan for Pence to unilaterally refuse to count Biden’s electors and instead send the election back to various GOP-controlled state legislatures to replace Biden’s electors with Trump’s.