On Monday, CNN published a staggering 2,319 text messages that former President Donald Trump‘s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows received and sent between Election Day 2020 and President Joe Biden‘s inauguration on January 20, 2021.
The texts add clarity to the GOP’s behind-the-scenes strategy to attempt to overturn Biden’s electoral victory, as well as the party’s reaction to the violence that ensued on January 6.
Even before the election was called, Meadows’ phone was blowing up with election fraud conspiracies, strategies for challenging the results and words of encouragement for the administration.
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Though the texts were just made public, CNN previously reported that among the messages was one from former Trump administration Energy Secretary Rick Perry. Perry adamantly denied the reporting at the time.
Well, wouldn’t you know it, not only is there a text about a “silver bullet” to overturn the election sent from Perry’s phone just before the race was called, it’s actually signed “Rick Perry.”
“We have the data driven program that can clearly show where the fraud was committed. This is the silver bullet. Rick Perry,” Perry texted.
Folks had a lot to say about this ultimate dad move:
I’m guilty of sedition.
Yours truly,
Rick Perry— Tim Hannan ???? (@TimHannan) April 25, 2022
Remember when we thought Rick Perry forgetting the third thing was the stupidest moment? https://t.co/TrBai7pnHy
— Unionize Tesla Schooley (@Rschooley) April 25, 2022
Some of the Trump Conspirators used burner phones.
Rick Perry not only used his actual phone, he signed off his conspiratorial texts with "Rick Perry."
Oops.
— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) April 25, 2022
Pro tip for Rick Perry: if you're going to send insurrectionist text messages from your own phone number and then try to claim that it wasn't really you, don't sign them "Rick Perry"
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) April 25, 2022
In fairness to Rick Perry, he only did this because:
1. he’s corrupt
2. he’s stupid
3. I forget the 3rd thing https://t.co/DzwUCWC8BZ— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) April 25, 2022
?Breaking News?Another Republican lies and gets caught. Add to the list of stupid & seditious GQP- dumb dumb Rick Perry.
— ???teen??? (@TeenForeverBlue) April 25, 2022
To quote Rick Perry himself, "Oops!" ? https://t.co/758qrkOScK
— Marilyn Matthews (@MatthewsMarilyn) April 25, 2022
BennyTheHill
No one cares about Rick Perry.
LOL!!!
But this is newsworthy:
New York Times: “Twitter Accepts Elon Musk’s Buyout Offer”
Hey leftists, don’t let your heads explode now, and stay away from open windows. We don’t want you to do anything ill-conceived or foolish.
Trump and other banned conservatives and libertarians will be re-activating their Twitter accounts. This is great. We can’t forget that there are 2 big elections coming up this November and in 2024.
FREE SPEECH PREVAILS!!!
America is beautiful!!!
🙂
Den
Actually, since most of us do not support traitorous actions as you do, and are not anti-democracy as you are we DO care about those who planned insurrection along with your golden boy Trump (I know you claim not to like him, but given the totality of your posts that is obviously just another of your endless lies).
Conservatives like Trump were banned from twitter for telling lies and/or inciting violence. And Twitter’s TOS have nothing at all to do with Free Speech as defined in the Bill of Rights (but nobody expects someone as stupid as you to understand civics).
There is also no reason to assume that Musk would trash the existing TOS of Twitter, and Trump himself has claimed he is not interested in creating a new account. Though of course, like you he is a liar, so we really cannot trust his statement.
And as a side note, the excessive use of “LOL”, as well as your lack of understanding of how to use punctuation marks is rather childish. It is yet another reason the adults here laugh at you, as we laughed at your previous fake personae.
BennyTheHill
Sweet, but very dumb Denny:
You get so triggered.
Musk has already said that he will make Twitter’s algorithms public and that Twitter will be changed to accommodate all points of view. He said that he wants Twitter to be a truly free speech platform; basically the world’s town square where everyone can speak freely. Now, I realize that totalitarian leftists like you want to clamp down on free speech, but you’re not going to get your way. Sorry, bro. Regrettably: Stalin and Hitler were both socialists (one a Marxist socialist and the other a national socialist) who loved controlling their opponents’ speech, therefore, I guess they’re your heroes.
Now, don’t cry. I know you’re trying to hold it together because you expected that the loony left would stop Musk from buying Twitter, and it obviously didn’t turn out the way you expected. You can still tweet to your 20 followers (or less). Musk wants you to have the freedom to speak out, too.
LOL!!!
🙂
Eternal.Cowboy
I’m going to help you out here because your trolling game is on life support.
Picking a topic and retiring to it is a solid tactic but it has to be something people actually care about. Other than the weirdness of it all, no one really cares that Elon Musk is buying twitter. It’s not something that gets people riled. I’m fact, you know who doesn’t care? Dear Leader Trump. He has already said he won’t be coming back to twitter. So that is your second problem, you have picked a topic no one cares about and are trying to invoke Dear Leaser in an attempt to further rule people but Dear Leader is contradicting you.
Stick with wacky election fraud claims or something that actually gets people worked up and is consistent with Dear Leader.
Bosch
Hey Bengina, it’s been a while since you brought up the Clintons. Do that.
mailliw110
Sorry, not on Twitter. AND NEITHER IS TRUMP!!!
LegionKeign
‘I didn’t win the election’: Trump admits defeat in session with historians
Nuff said.
ZzBomb
Hey r3tard, literally NO ONE cares about Twitter besides idiots like you who think Musk buying it matters.
Mack
Bennytheasshole, Musk only cares about himself, not free speech. He won’t care as long as no one says anything bad about him-same as the Orange Turd. But now China will have control over Twitter-either Musk does what China wants or Musk will have to move his factories out of China. ROFLMAO.
Polaro
@benny you seriously misunderstand what free speech means. You may say anything you like. You may also be tried for slander and libel as well as a bunch of other crimes, like sedition. But, good for you trying to change the topic. Perry and Trump and all his sycophants are traitors.
BennyTheHell
America is really ugly compared to everywhere else on earth I’ve lived.
Den
I knew you hated this county, you hetero shaygetz. I am sure you’d be happier in a place like Russia or Rumania.
And it is very likely that nobody at all would miss you, if you are as ugly in spirit as you seem.
BennyTheHill
Leftists – like you – HATE America. There’s nothing new about that. That’s why they are trying to destroy it.
Sad!!!
I grieve for you and your fellow totalitarian leftists.
🙁
Fname Optional Lname
We can all tell by your miserable responses you have never lived
mailliw110
Did you go to Sweden for your sex change?
ZzBomb
1. You never lived anywhere else besides that small Hamlet you live in some backwater fly over state.,
2. America is really pretty
3. The only person here hating on America is you. See your own comment for reference.
Mack
ROFLMAO. You’re what’s wrong with America, you spout nothing but hate just like the ones you support.
white-queer-african
As my son will say “Liar, liar pants on fire”. Very few in the GOF (Grand Old Failure) party that tells the truth?
Actually NO. I am wrong. It’s only the one’s that kiss the Orange turd’s ring. Soon he will be history and only noted as the worst president in the history of the US.
Jim
OMG When I saw Rick Perry on Queerty I thought it was going to be conformation of all the rumors that had been circulating in Austin for decades.
Well, truth will out.
Brian
I will never understand people’s eagerness to claim bigots as fellow gay men. (The trope includes Mike Pence, too.) These people are homophobic because they were brainwashed by their religion and local culture into believing that all gay people are somehow evil or lesser. It’s not because they’re gay. It’s because they’re Christian.
Bosch
Homophobic opinions can be taught, yes. But the defensive emotional reaction required to keep homophobia alive in the self doesn’t happen unless there’s a hook to hang it on. Real heterosexuals don’t visualize gay sex when they look at us, just like gay men don’t visualize straight sex when they look at straight people.
Exposing these men for what they are was our most valuable weapon in the 90s, and now that we’ve stopped using it, things are sliding backwards. There is no point in defending the sexuality of a homophobe.
Mister P
No one is against free speech. The right has to insist we are but it’s just another lie they peddle.
There are limits to free speech and Mr Musk will be learning that it has to be moderated.
Kangol2
The right-wingers are the ones limiting speech all over the US. Why don’t moderates, liberals and progressives, as well as supposedly libertarians, see this?
1) The right-wing RepubliQans are passing laws in state after state banning non-existent “critical race theory”;
2) they’re the ones trying to remove books from school libraries, while installing right-wing propaganda;
3) they’re the ones passing laws to ban or limit discussions of LGBTQ issues, and force LGBTQ children to essentially come out to anti-LGBTQ parents;
4) they’re the ones who just passed a law attacking a private US corporation over its speech pushing back against their right-wing censorship.
PLEASE, people, do not accept right-wing frames. And there is no “free speech” in the US, there never has been. Some people have been able to speak as freely as possible but the majority, as any cursory review of history will show, have not. That includes today!
Polaro
Rick Perry is decidedly stupid as are so many of the delusional trumpies.
Jim
Delusional Trumpies are not stupid.
Narcissistic, Egotistic, Myopic, Unchristian (in the true sense of the word.) but not stupid.