How Mark Meadows Tried to Keep Trump in Power

Washington Post: “Meadows granted conspiracy theory-peddling activists direct access to the Oval Office and personally connected some with the president… He pressed the Justice Department to investigate spurious and debunked claims, including a bizarre theory that an Italian operation changed votes in the United States — an allegation a top Justice official called ‘pure insanity,’ … He also pushed the Justice Department, unsuccessfully, to try to invalidate the election results in six states through federal court action.”

“Now Meadows’s actions are at the center of investigations by both the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack and the Justice Department, which is examining whether to press contempt-of-Congress charges against him as well as its own inquiry into the events surrounding the insurrection.”

USA Today: Panel faces dilemma in coaxing defiant GOP.