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It must be some kind of magic that Mark Meadows could do an actual job of Chief of Staff when he spent all his time text messaging.
No, seriously.
CNN has obtained 2,319 text messages that former President Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sent and received between Election Day 2020 and President Joe Biden’s January 20, 2021 inauguration.
The vast trove of texts, which Meadows selectively provided to the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, offers the most revealing picture to date of how Trump’s inner circle, supporters and Republican lawmakers worked behind the scenes to try to overturn the election results and then reacted to the violence that effort unleashed at the Capitol on January 6.
Well, you know where I will be this afternoon.
First thought: The My Pillow guy needs something to occupy his time, you know, like a job or something. I bet that guy has thumbs the size of Dallas.
I look for deviations every day in my business … when I find one I investigate relentlessly until I know why it happened and how it happened… ( this is my gift from God that has made my business so successful)
Apparently, God hands out crazy behavior like it’s beads at Mardi Gras.
Remember the Kefauver investigation into crime many decades ago? Meadows reminds me of that experience, hands down.
1Apparently Marjory Traitor Greene is now caught in a perjury trap as just yesterday she denied suggesting martial law to TFG while under oath.
Today we have her text to Meadows saying exactly that. Today is her day to squirm after yesterday’s smarmy performance.
2I’m curious as to how CNN obtain these texts. Next question, will anyone in Congress be charged/indicted? I’m not holding my breath.
3Trumpf is held in contempt for failing to respond to a subpoena in the NY AG case. Nothing will happen.
4All those in trumpf’s orbit, including trumpf, that were already shown to be responsible for and inciting the Jan 6 insurrection will simply use it for more votes and fund raising/grifting from the Qgop and mega donors. No other consequences. Sorry to be so pessimistic, but it’s been that way for years with trumpf and family.
And my pillow guy’s brain is smaller than his actual thumbs. I’m still waiting for the big announcement that he said he would have last Thursday which he said would shock the nation about the 2020 election. Again.
At last I get to use my God-given talent for math (OK, arithmetic) for a good purpose! There’s 78 days between November 4 and January 21, so that makes 29.7 tweets a day. But we gotta exclude Sundays, because all the god-fearing Trumpoids would never work on a Sunday. There’s 11 sabbaths in that slot, so he cranked and wanked out 34.6 tweets a day.
Actually, I’m sorta glad they did all that tweeting. If they really were “working” at their day jobs, just think of all the damage they could have done. Plus a few years ago some stalker was convicted of sending hundreds of text messages and phone calls to her victim, so Meadows is kind of a slacker when it comes to compulsive craziness.
[Full disclosure: I typed “number of days between november 4 and january 21” into Google, then again used Google to divide that into 2319. So technically my God-given talent is knowing how to use Google. But “mathing” sounds much more mysterious and difficult than “googling”.]
5With the way Fox News has relentlessly focused on emails in the past, they must have wall to wall coverage on this Mark Meadows story.
“I look for deviations every day in my business … when I find one…”
6And he didn’t need to look any further than a mirror.
He’s in the Text Olympics with the likes of teens everywhere! I keep waiting for the Truth Olympics.
72300 texts? When does Meadows find time to register to vote all over the east coast?
8CNN story says “Meadows provided the cache of 2,319 messages to the January 6 committee in December 2021. But soon after, he stopped cooperating and refused to appear for a deposition.”
There are almost certainly MORE tweets from Meadows:
“For the most part, Meadows’ texts are short, and frequently he does not appear to reply at all. Some conversations include non sequiturs. It’s unclear whether Meadows did not respond to the messages or if the logs are incomplete, because texts could also have been deleted or withheld for claims of privilege.”
Not clear how CNN got the entire trove of messages … doesn’t sound like all were part of the court filing.
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