Trump’s Last WH Chief Got Warning of Possible Jan. 6 Violence
- New court filings by Jan. 6 riot panel spell out Meadows role
- Meadows also was told false-elector plan not ‘legally sound’
Mark Meadows
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Former President Donald Trump’s last White House chief of chief, Mark Meadows, was warned by the Secret Service that violence could occur when a Joint Session of Congress gathered on Jan. 6, 2021 to certify Joe Biden’s election victory, new court filings show.
Meadows and several Republican members of Congress also were advised by a White House lawyer that a fringe plan to create “alternate” slates of presidential electors to block Biden’s win wasn’t “legally sound,” but pressed on, according to the filings Friday night from the House Select Committee probing the U.S. Capitol riot.