If you're wondering why there aren't news stories fleshing out the specifics of the Meadows-Jan. 6 PowerPoint, I will point you to this tweet from yesterday.
There was an enormous amount of horseshit cobbled together in the wake of the election, some of which absolutely filtered into the Oval Office. And obviously Trump worked hard to retain power by whatever means he could.
But this one thing floating around is not necessarily central to that, if it played a role at all. Not that we don't already know weirdness was afoot: we have documentation, for example, that Meadows wanted DOJ to look into the Italian satellite theory.
Anyway. What Meadows turned over might overlap with what's out there, but the documents are not exactly the same. And, even so, we don't (yet) know the context for it: how he got it and what, if anything, he intended to do with it.

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