Just 48 hours after 2020 presidential election, according to an explosive new report from CNN, Donald Trump Jr. texted then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows with the following message:
“We have operational control. “It’s very simple. We have multiple paths We control them all.”
That text is all the evidence a prosecutor needs to prove that Donald Trump Jr. was part of a conspiracy to overturn the results of what was later called by a Trump-appointed election security official, the “most secure in American history,” and that’s very bad news for the ex-president’s son, who is also facing legal exposure on unrelated issues in New York.
Alan S. Futerfas, an attorney for Donald Trump Jr., attempted to minimize the CNN report, remarking:
“After the election, Don received numerous messages from supporters and others. Given the date, this message likely originated from someone else and was forwarded.”
The failed, one-term former President’s son also laid out a strategy for how his father would remain as head of state no matter what the election results said:
Trump Jr. makes specific reference to filing lawsuits and advocating recounts to prevent certain swing states from certifying their results, as well as having a handful of Republican state houses put forward slates of fake “Trump electors.”
If all that failed, according to the Trump Jr. text, GOP lawmakers in Congress could simply vote to reinstall Trump as President on January 6.
That, of course, would have been an illegal and unconstitutional coup which likely would have led to a crisis the likes of which this country has never seen.
Legal experts said the text messages clearly prove that a crime was committed, with Richard Painter, the chief White House ethics lawyer in the George W. Bush administration, writing:
Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner called the texts “treasonous criminality.”
Journalist Keith Olbermann tweeted:
