CNN recently obtained a trove of texts submitted by former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 siege on the Capitol. While some have already been made public, many of the 2,319 texts between Meadows, Trump’s inner circle and GOP members of Congress were new. The texts, Straight Arrow News contributor Rashad Richey argues, portray GOP lawmakers as complicit in the attempt to reverse the 2020 election results.
Now dammit, this has gone too far.
Mark Meadows, the Chief of Staff for former President Donald Trump, Trump president, Mark Meadows, chief of staff, and a bunch of lawmakers sending Mark Meadows text messages – giving him ideas, ways that he can actually violate rule of law, overthrow the U.S. Constitution, dismantle democracy and violate the sentiment of the everyday voter.
Listen, Mark Meadows was in a position to actually lead but he decided he was a feckless leader by entertaining some of these ridiculous and extreme text messages. I know there’s an analysis out there to break down who sent the text messages. I’m not bringing it down to who – I will tell you that they’re all Republicans, every single one of them. Republican lawmakers and some non-lawmakers like Ginny Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, all of these individuals were texting Mark Meadows, calling Mark Meadows to overthrow the United States government. If that does not frighten you, if that does not get you to at least a conclusion that says the Trump regime was bad for the nation – if you are still a Trump supporter, after the revelation of not only Donald Trump himself, but his own chief of staff and other lawmakers across this country – were willing to engage in an actual overthrow of the United States government…If you don’t think that is problematic, you are the problem, you are part of the absolute problem in this country.
Now, if you’re like me, if you believe in a particular political ideology – I’m left-leaning, you may be right-leaning – you may be in the middle, you may be more left than me, that’s fine. Whatever your political ideology is, that is part of the back and forth, the push and pull, the cause and effect, the hand and glove – that is part of the process of an active open and functional democracy. But when you lose an election, when you lose a political outcome, that does not give you the license to then change the rules, eliminate the rule of law, to violate the sentiment of the everyday voter.
