"The text messages, obtained from multiple sources, offer new insights into how the assault on the election was rooted in deranged internet paranoia and undemocratic ideology. They show Meadows and other high-level Trump allies reveling in wild conspiracy theories, violent rhetoric, and crackpot legal strategies for refusing to certify Joe Biden’s victory. They expose the previously unknown roles of some members of Congress, local politicians, activists and others in the plot to overturn the election. Now, for the first time, many of those figures will be named and their roles will be described — in their own words." (our emphasis) -- from Talking Points Memo's must- read series "The Meadows Texts," providing texts provided the January 6 select committee by Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows before he stopped cooperating with the investigation. The texts are likely to be included in the January 6 select committee's forthcoming report, to be issued soon.
The 34 members of Congress involved at some point and to some degree in the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election are named at the end of this part of TPM's reporting. Some deserve to be prosecuted, all deserve to be thrown out of Congress, though neither outcomes are likely. These texts, however, present a dire legal landscape for Meadows, who not surprisingly was at the center of the plotting.
Then, there's the question of prosecuting the Malignant Loser himself (see post below).
