What a difference a few years makes. Rick Perry, in between Dancing With The Stars episodes, went on record in 2015 talking about how Donald Trump was a “cancer on conservatism.” A few years later he was advising Trump’s chief of staff on how to overthrow the 2020 election. The democracy is not very strong with this one.
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Members of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol believe that former Texas Governor and Trump Energy Secretary Rick Perry was the author of a text message sent to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows the day after the 2020 election pushing an “AGRESSIVE (sic) STRATEGY” for three state legislatures to ignore the will of their voters and deliver their states’ electors to Donald Trump, three sources familiar with the House Committee investigation tell CNN.
A spokesman for Perry told CNN that the former Energy Secretary denies being the author of the text. Multiple people who know Rick Perry confirmed to CNN that the phone number the committee has associated with that text message is Perry’s number.The cell phone number the text was sent from, obtained from a source knowledgeable about the investigation, appears in databases as being registered to a James Richard Perry of Texas, the former governor’s full name.
“How did this text influence the planning of Mark Meadows and Donald Trump to try to destroy the lawful electoral college majority that had been established by the people of the United States and the states for Joe Biden,” Raskin asked. “Those are the kinds of questions that we have a right to ask Mark Meadows.”
The text to Meadows suggests a willingness to force a constitutional crisis to undermine the election even before all the legal votes had been counted. The final results from Pennsylvania and Georgia didn’t come for days; Trump ultimately won North Carolina.Boston College professor and historian Heather Cox Richardson found the text striking in that its author “wanted Republican-dominated state legislatures not even to wait to see who had won the election—none of those states had been called by November 4—but simply to ignore the will of the voters, choose their own electors, and hope that the Supreme Court would hand the election to Trump as he had been saying for weeks it would.”In his remarks, Raskin inaccurately described the text message as having come from a “House lawmaker.” Sources told CNN this was an inadvertent error. After CNN reached out for comment, a Raskin source said the congressman learned of the error this week from CNN and confirmed the mistake with staff. He has written a letter to correct the Congressional Record.
I don’t know how Texas is doing it these days. They keep electing politicians that are stranger than any that you can possibly find in the pages of fiction. But somehow they keep coming up with more.
Rick ain’t the brightest butterknife in the Texas GOP drawer.
Where do they find them? How does one state produce the likes of Perry, Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, Louie Gohmert, Ted Cruz, Dan Crenshaw (and he’s the least of them, with his Dollar Store Tom Cruise performance ads) Dan Patrick, etc.”