US Representative Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) wears a Trump Trump face mask when she arrives on the floor of the House to take the oath of office as a newly elected member of the 117th House of Representatives in Washington, DC, USA, January 3, 2021.
Erin Scott Reuters
Republican Republican Republican Republican Marjorie Taylor Green has called on a senior White House official to speak to then-President Donald Trump about imposing martial law following the Capitol Hill uprising, according to a new report.
“In our personal chat with members only, a few say the only way to save our republic is for Trump to call for a Marshall Act,” he had sent an SMS to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on January 17, 2021. CNN Monday.
The reference to the Marshall Act is a clear misrepresentation of martial law, the emergency force that puts the military in charge of government.
“I do not know about these things. I just wanted you to tell him, “reads the text of the MP from the first term. “They stole this election. We all know. Then they will destroy our country. Please tell him to declassify as much as possible so we can go after Biden and everyone else!”
Meadows did not appear to respond to Green, CNN reported. Green’s office did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment on the report.
It is reported that Green sent this text three days before Trump left office after his loss to President Joe Biden. Less than two weeks earlier, on Jan. 6, a fierce mob of Trump supporters broke through police lines and stormed the U.S. Capitol building, forcing those in Congress to hide and temporarily postponing efforts to confirm Biden’s victory.
The mob was pushed to the Capitol that day by Trump, who spent weeks falsely claiming to have defeated his Democratic rival and that the election was rigged against him. Green, who has a well-documented history of right-wing conspiracy theories, also often sows doubts about the integrity of the 2020 election after Biden’s victory.
Election experts, politicians from both parties and even Trump’s attorney general have dismissed Trump’s claims that the election result was affected by widespread voter fraud.
Green asked Meadows in a December 2020 text published by CNN for advice on how to prepare for objections to the January 6 election certification: “We need to get organized for the 6th,” she wrote.
She also asked Meadows for a follow-up meeting with Rudy Giuliani, a former Trump lawyer who has contributed to unsuccessful efforts to overcome Biden’s victories in key swing states.
CNN said it received Green’s texts as part of a set of 2,319 texts sent to and from Meadows between election day 2020 and Biden’s inauguration two months later. The texts show Meadows’ communications with dozens of Republican lawmakers, as well as other White House officials and several of Trump’s elderly children.
Meadows shared these announcements in late 2021 with the House of Representatives committee investigating the Capitol riot, but then stopped cooperating and is now on trial to overturn two of the committee’s subpoenas.
In the recent filing of this civil case, the commission shared a transcript of an interview with a former Trump aide who said Meadows had been warned in advance of the potential for violence on Jan. 6.
A spokesman for the select committee rejected CNBC’s request to verify the texts reported by CNN.
On Friday, Green testified under oath in a long-running lawsuit to disqualify her from running for a second term for her alleged involvement in the Capitol riot.
For nearly four hours of testimony, Green repeatedly said she could not recall details of events and planning around the day.
“Before taking office in 2021, did you advocate martial law with the President of the United States?” Green was asked during this hearing by attorney Andrew Celli.
“I don’t remember, I don’t remember,” Green replied.
Ron Fain, a lawyer leading the candidacy to remove Green from the ballot, told NBC News on Monday that the newly unveiled texts showed “dishonesty about her call for martial law” and suggested that “she is not a credible witness” in the rostrum.
Read the full CNN report.
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