Mark Meadows’ Documents Detail Plans To Delay Biden Certification

Before Mark Meadows decided to not cooperate with The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Insurrection, he turned over an email, which was released to the public on Thursday.

In the email is a PowerPoint with slides detailing a plan to delay the certification of President Joe Biden’s win of the 2020 presidential election. In one slide titled “Options for 6 JAN,” there are scenarios provided which all involve former Vice President Mike Pence, and ways he could delay the process.

Some proposed plans included: “VP Pence seats Republican electors over the objections of Democrats in states where fraud occurred,” “VP Pence rejects the electors from States where fraud occurred causing the election to be decided by remaining electoral votes,” and “VP Pence delays the decision in order to allow for a vetting and subsequent counting of all the legal paper ballots.”

Another slide titled “Recommendations” details a plan to declare a national security emergency to delay the certification of Biden’s victory.

The plan is listed in bullet points: “Brief Senators and Congressmen on foreign interference,” “Declare National Security Emergency,” “Foreign influence and control of electronic voting systems,” “Declare electronic voting in all states invalid,” and, at the bottom, in bold type and underlined, “Legal & Genuine Paper ballot counts or Constitutional remedy delegated to Congress.”

The plan is based on conspiracy theories related to electronic voting and foreign election interference, which were used to claim the 2020 presidential election was stolen. None of the theories were proven to be factual.

According to Rolling Stone, the PowerPoint presentation is 38 pages long and titled “Election fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN.” The PowerPoint was part of an email sent on Jan. 5, 2021.

Meadows also provided text messages to the Committee where he and others discussed a plan to overturn the election results, which the Committee noted in a letter that also mentioned the PowerPoint presentation. Later that day, Meadows and his lawyer, George Terwilliger, announced that he would no longer cooperate with the Committee.

Previously, Meadows had agreed to a special arrangement with the Committee in which he would provide information that did not fall under executive privilege, though Meadows now feels the Committee would have broken those boundaries.