Pat Cippollone and two other lawyers. Eric and Derek. Meadows wants him to concede and transition also.— Patrick Byrne (@PatrickByrne) December 20, 2020
Mark Meadows. hmmm...
That got me to thinking... which led back here. I mentioned this to someone recently. Can't remember who but I re dug
"It was McCarthy who made the accusation, asserting that “There’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” prompting Ryan to cut him off an insist that the matter never be publicly discussed (link).
Ryan responded by asserting through a spokesman that the exchange never happened, and then after learning there was a recording of it, changed his story and asserted that it had merely been a joke.
But the timing of the conversation suggests otherwise.
Originally here ---> House majority leader to colleagues in 2016: ‘I think Putin pays’ Trump
Paul Ryan Keeps It All in the Family
May 18, 2017
"In the Post piece, McCarthy’s remark is met with laughter, and Ryan cautions his colleagues, “This is an off the record . . . No leaks! . . . All right?”
"And then, amid more laughter, Ryan says, “This is how we know we’re a real family here.”"
“That’s how you know that we’re tight,” Steve Scalise, the House Majority Whip, says.
“What’s said in the family stays in the family,” Ryan concludes.
"Spokesmen for the various parties at first denied that the conversation took place. But when the Post apprised them of the audiotape, they went into an oh-well-it-was-just-a-joke mode."
"Another participant, Evan McMullin, an ex-C.I.A. operative, who ran for President last year as an independent, confirmed to the Post that the conversation took place. He attended as the policy director of the House Republican Conference."
"In the transcript published by the Post, McCarthy speculates that the Russians hacked the Democratic National Committee’s computers and, in the process, discovered whatever opposition-research materials the Democrats had gathered on Trump."
Question. Was Mark Meadows there?
He was a "Freedom Caucus" member...
AND, he has his own ambitions for 2024:
"In October 2020, Meadows was mentioned in a Washington Post article as a potential candidate in the 2024 Republican presidential primary"
My note: Anyone who pushes that it was the Russians who hacked the DNC is a derp in my book.