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Whiskeytide

(4,463 posts)
Tue Dec 13, 2022, 09:58 AM Dec 2022

So, what exactly did Jason Miller mean by " We need ...

to start mobilizing our real-deal allies” in his text to Mark Meadows in the run up to Jan 6?

He was texting about coordinating with Mo Brooks and their strategy for the EC count. Here’s the relevant part of the text:

“This may not surprise you, but no one from the legal team has made contact with them at all. They request examples of fraud, numbers, names, whatever supporting evidence can be provided. We’ve now supplied that, but our legal squad isn’t exactly buttoned up. I bring this up for a simple reason – if we’re hoping to move real numbers on the 6th, I think we need to quickly start mobilizing our real-deal allies. I’m ready to go, I have bodies to help, will follow your lead”


(Emphasis added)

Maybe I’m putting on a tinfoil hat, but isn’t that an odd phrase to use? Perhaps he’s just referring to using members of his staff (“I have bodies to help”) to recruit more Congress members? Maybe he’s saying they need real lawyers (“our legal squad isn’t exactly buttoned up”). His stated goal is to “move numbers” on J6. What numbers? How were they planning to do that with “real-deal allies?

I suspect the J6 committee looked into this, but I’d like to know what his explanation was. And I’d like to know how Meadows responded.

Edited to add the link to the AL.com article.

https://www.al.com/politics/2022/12/mo-brooks-reportedly-described-as-ringleader-of-effort-to-overturn-election-in-mark-meadows-texts.html
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