Texting through an Insurrection

[Budi]

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WAPO 2/16/22
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2022/texting-insurrection/

Texting through an insurrection
Thousands of frantic text
messages that might have
otherwise been lost to history are
now key to piecing together a picture of
the events surrounding the Jan. 6 attack.

By Jacqueline Alemany, Tom Hamburger, Josh Dawsey and Tyler Remmel
Feb. 16, 2022

The panicked texts started landing in Mark Meadows’s phone long before thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s victory.

Fox News host Sean Hannity shot off a text on New Year’s Eve — a week before the “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded the violent siege — warning the White House chief of staff of mass resignations in the White House Counsel’s Office.

Dec. 31, 2020
Sean Hannity
We can’t lose the entire WH counsels office. I do NOT see January 6 happening the way he is being told. After the 6 th. He should announce will lead the nationwide effort to reform voting integrity.
Received by Mark Meadows

The night before the rally, Hannity’s private concerns about the day ahead escalated in another text to Meadows.

Jan. 5, 2021
Sean Hannity
Im very worried about the next 48 hours.
Pence pressure. White House counsel will leave.
Received by Mark Meadows

The ping-pong of private Hannity missives was a far cry from the contents of his show
READ MORE...

[Hoyt]

1. Unfortunately, those texting concerns will probably be absolved from blame.

[Budi]

2. Depends what the other 4000 Liz Cheney's got in her files say.. 😬

They're all incriminating.
I think when the public questioning begins in a couple months, the sheer amount will connect the contents like a path of breadcrumbs from the beginning to the end.

Keeping the faith, here.

[empedocles]

4. Agree

[bucolic_frolic]

3. After stealing the election he's going to "reform voting integrity"

Yeah, right. The embezzler will balance the books!