The House Jan. 6 panel seems unified when it comes to one point: There might well be another attempted coup in 2024 and Jan. 6 supplied the blueprint for pulling it off.
Then-President Donald Trump looks on as he departs a rally at Toledo Express Airport in Swanton, Ohio on Sept. 21, 2020.Peter Nicholas
Trump denies any wrongdoing and his allies contend that Cheney has lost credibility as any sort of fair broker. Pointing to Cheney’s persistent criticism of Trump, Republican South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem told NBC News: “I couldn’t see the point in it other than that she was angry and bitter.” “A lot of what we saw in 2020 and the aftermath of the election was testing the waters to see where there are weaknesses in the system of laws that govern us,” Arizona’s Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs told NBC News. If there is no “accountability and tightening up of these laws, we are at risk of these things happening again,” added Hobbs, who is now running for governor.One focus of the Jan.
In a series of text messages published Friday by CNN, Sen. Mike Lee, R., Utah, wrote to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows three days before the insurrection: “I’d love to be proven wrong about my concerns. But I really think this could all backfire badly unless we have legislatures submitting [T]rump slates .” The committee did not comment on the text messages. Lee Lonsberry, a spokesman for Lee said:"The text messages tell the same story Sen.
“It’s important to understand how they essentially got recruited to do this,” Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., who serves on the Jan. 6 panel, said of the alternate electors. “Were they recruited? Were they pressured? … Where did the direction come from — to go out to the states, find these people, and get them to sign their names?”
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