Mike Lee Breaks Silence on Texts to Mark Meadows

Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) “says the text messages he sent to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows after the 2020 election don’t signal advocacy for overturning the results in favor of Donald Trump,” the Deseret News reports.

Said Lee: “He knows that when I said things like ‘Tell me what we ought to be saying,’ what I was just trying to figure out was ‘What is your message?’ He knows me well enough to know that that doesn’t mean I will do your bidding, whatever it is.”

He added: “Conversations I had with him at the time on the phone and in person, he knew that. He knew I was not there to do his bidding.”