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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It cannot be overstated the extent to which there is a community of people who are eternally convinced that there is nothing more important than college and who reveal that bias in everything they do and say.
Last week I noted that the Jan. 6 subpoenas failed to include the Capitol-Hill rally organized by Ali Alexander. (1/2) washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
The Arizona “audit” didn’t conclude that Biden won Maricopa County. Instead, it gave a false veneer of authority to existent conspiracy theories. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
Trump, of course, wasted no time making false claims about what the Arizona report found. So here is the truth. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
I think the guy running the thing sincerely believes something fraudulent occurred, despite the lack of evidence. So the result was that he highlighted (often easily explicable) questions instead of proving anything.
If you think that the Arizona audit didn't provide exactly what Trump and his supporters were looking for, you're almost certainly misunderstanding it. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
There's a lot of ho-ho!-ing about the vote count. But the vote count was never what Trump and his allies were focused on. What the review did is create a veneer of authority for the actual conspiracy theories, which very much survived. washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…