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11 House Republicans attended a White House meeting with Trump to strategize about overturning the election results on January 6. Six of them later asked for pardons.

Author:     Bryan Metzger
Source:     Business Insider
Publication Date:     14 July 2022
 Link: 11 House Republicans attended a White House meeting with Trump to strategize about overturning the election results on January 6. Six of them later asked for pardons.
Stephan:   The Republican Party is no longer interested in ethical behavior amongst its Congressional members or, indeed ethical government of any kind. What they care about is power and the ability to reshape America as a White supremacy, male-dominant, christofascist anocracy. This story of 11 House MAGAt scumbags illustrates my point. In a Congress that lived up to their oaths these people would be thrown out of office for their criminal behavior. That they face no accountability reveals the sorry state of the Republican Party and the American Congress.
Republican MAGATs Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia (a representative-elect at the time), and Matt Gaetz of Florida attended the meeting.  Credit: Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call / Getty
  • The White House held a December 21, 2020, meeting to discuss a fringe theory to overturn the election.
  • The January 6, 2021, committee shared the names of 11 House Republicans who went to that meeting.
  • They included Reps. Matt Gaetz and Jim Jordan, as well as Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene. 

The House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, offered new details on Tuesday about a meeting at the White House that involved several Republican members of Congress ahead of the meeting of the joint session of Congress to certify the 2020 presidential election.

Democratic Rep. Stephanie Murphy of Florida, a member of the committee, said the December 21 meeting was part of an effort to “disseminate his false claims and to encourage members of the public to fight the outcome on January 6.”

Vice President Mike Pence, Rudy Giuliani, and Mark Meadows, the White House chief of […]

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