"A federal judge declined to remove Mark Meadows’ Fulton County prosecution to federal court, per an order issued on Friday.

U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones for the Northern District of Georgia said in the ruling that Meadows’ alleged involvement in Trump’s effort to reverse his loss 'was not related to his role as White House Chief of Staff or his executive branch authority.'”

~ Josh Kovensky

#MarkMeadows #Trump #crime #LawandOrder #InmateP01135809 #BigLie

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/judge-denies-meadows-bid-to-remove-georgia-case-to-federal-court

"A federal judge on Wednesday shot down the efforts of two high profile Fulton County racketeering defendants [Mark Meadows and Jeffrey Clark] to block their arrests, all but assuring that the Trump cronies will be booked this week like the other 17 defendants.

~ Josh Kovensky

The law either applies to all equally or it means nothing at all.

#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #MarkMeadows #JeffreyClark #RICO

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal-judge-denies-mark-meadows-jeff-clark-bids-to-stave-off-arrest

The bottom line of what Jeffrey Clark and Mark Meadows are doing with their Georgia indictments:

They're asserting that law does not apply to them. They're asserting that they are above law. They're asserting that law is made for someone else, not straight white men.

And Fani Willis not buying any of this.

#Georgia #LawandOrder #FaniWillis #MarkMeadows #JeffreyClark

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/22/meadows-clark-fight-to-stave-off-arrest-in-georgia-00112327

"nor was he aware of any 'standing order' from Trump authorizing the automatic declassification of materials taken out of the Oval Office, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News."

#Trump #Meadows #MarkMeadows #ClassifiedDocuments #NationalSecurity
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And if I'm following the plot, #ClarenceThomas didn't declare these #gifts because his #SupremeCourt buddies told him not to. The #GOP megadonor, #HarlanCrow, also donated $500,000 to Clarence's wife #Ginni's 'non-profit'. The same Ginni who advocated to overturn the 2020 election and who texted #MarkMeadows that the 'Biden crime family' & others (media, elected officials, bureaucrats) were being 'sent to barges off Gitmo to face military trials.' Have I got that right?

Bill Lueders writes,

"[The Mark Meadows] texts reveal the wholesale embrace of madness and criminality by GOP members of Congress in the weeks surrounding January 6th."

#MarkMeadows #Republicans #insurrection

https://www.thebulwark.com/messaging-mark-meadows-lets-have-marshall-law/

"But it’s even more remarkable to witness members of Congress, each of whom represents more than a half million Americans and employs a government staff to help sift and analyze information, as broken as a Q-Anon devotee awaiting the second coming of JFK Jr."

#democracy #Republicans #MarkMeadows #QAnon

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Francis Wilkinson writes,

"'Mark, when we lose Trump we lose our Republic,' Representative Brian Babin of Texas texted Meadows on Nov. 6. 'Fight like hell and find a way.'

It’s disturbing that so many who prospered under the nation’s democratic rules could be so eager to subvert them — or to equate a republic with a cult of personality."

#democracy #Republicans #MarkMeadows

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-12-18/truth-is-reasserting-itself-over-trump-s-election-lies?sref=QFk2DceC

"It’s frightening to imagine what might have been contained in the calls and texts we could not see. …

[W]ith this series, readers don’t have to take our word for it or theirs. The American public can see the participants in the push to overturn the election in their own words."

#MarkMeadows #insurrection #Jan6 #trumpannouncement

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Hunter Walker writes re: Mark Meadows' texts,

"Despite all of these revelations, we also know these texts were just the tip of the iceberg. They are the messages Meadows and his legal team provided to the committee. Within that log, there are indications discussions were missing, including conversations that clearly begin without context as well as signs Meadows and his associates moved their communications to encrypted channels."

#MarkMeadows #insurrection

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/what-mark-meadows-phone-taught-us

And then as I think about this mind-boggling stupidity, I think about Dietrich Bonhoeffer's brilliant letter pointing out that much toxic stupidity is not innate, but it's chosen, self-inflicted stupidity, with which there can be no reasoning. Offer this kind of stupidity facts and reason, and it responds with made-up facts and irrationality.

How does one sustain a vialbe democracy when such stolidity flourishes?

#MarkMeadows #Bonhoeffer

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https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/bonhoeffers-theory-of-stupidity-explains-the-world-perfectly-957cbb3fbac1

I'm sorry, but the word that leaps into my mind over and over as I read the text messages exchanged between Mark Meadow and MAGA loyalists outraged at election "theft" is stupidity.

So many of these people are obviously just so stupid. And apparently pleased as punch to be so….

Marty Davis in the latest TMP installment about these texts linked below, babbling about "Dominium" voting machines…. the Bizarre Capitalizations. Stupidity personified.

#MarkMeadows

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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/meadows-texts-wide-cast-of-characters

Newly Revealed Texts Show Mark Meadows Is a Liar

The messages contrast sharply with his account of the aftermath of the 2020 election.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/12/newly-revealed-texts-show-mark-meadows-is-a-liar/
#USA #Politics #MarkMeadows #Insurrection #DonaldTrump

Thor Benson asks Hunter Walker of TPM's series on Mark Meadows' texts,

"What do you think the texts say about the current state of the GOP, considering many of these people are members of Congress and will continue to be for the foreseeable future?"

Walker replies,

"Nearly 20 percent of these messages are coming from members of Congress, and really all of those people just got a promotion in terms of Republicans taking over the majority [in the House]."

#MarkMeadows

https://aaronrupar.substack.com/p/hunter-walker-interview-mark-meadows-texts-j6

The Dems should free incoming leader #HakeemJeffries to bring some Brooklyn heat to the #MarkMeadows texts fiasco. The texts are proof, for those that still need it, that the Republican party is riddled with traitors. Jeffries can again quote the Nororious B.I.G.: "And if you don't know, now you know."

The Mark Meadows' texts with 34 Republicans re: overturning the 2020 election are a disturbing, hilarious, semi-literate, all-caps shrieking, hot mess. Yes, trying to overthrow an election is serious. But these bootlicking, keyboard-abusing Republicans are comedy gold. Hats off to Talking Points Memo for exposing this toxic drivel. Now, if Merrick Garland would just indict someone.

#MarkMeadows
#TalkingPointsMemo
@hunterw

Charles Pierce succinctly sums up what we're learning from the TPM series focusing on texts between Mark Meadows and desultory seditionists WHO HOLD ELECTED OFFICE (!) at the time of the 2020 elections:

"What a terrible horde of complete clowns nearly overthrew this government.

Many of them appear to be primo examples of People Who Do Their Own Research On The Internet."

#Trump #MarkMeadows #insurrection #seditiousconspiracy

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a42228739/mark-meadows-texts-january-6/

About the elected officials plotting with Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to overturn the government, Jonathan V. Last writes,
“In all of this it’s important to understand that we’re not talking about Twitter randos, or AmGreatness cosplayers. These aren’t a couple of sad incels with a podcast.
The figures involved in these texts are elected officials in the federal government.”
#Trump #MarkMeadows #insurrection
https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/the-coup-texts

The TPM series about which Heather Cox Richardson is speaking (see the toot linked above), can be found at the link below.

#Jan6 #MarkMeadows #insurrection

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/mark-meadows-exchanged-texts-with-34-members-of-congress-about-plans-to-overturn-the-2020-election

As Heather Cox Richardson notes, the new series Talking Points Memo has begun, focusing on texts sent to and from Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows around the time of the 2020 election and its aftermath, shows "that 34 members of Congress wrote to Meadows as part of the attempt to install Trump back in the White House by counting out Biden’s legitimate electors."

#Jan6 #MarkMeadows #insurrection

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-12-2022