Jan. 6 Select Committee Busted Manipulating Text Message From Jim Jordan to Mark Meadows

The Jan. 6 Select Committee has been busted for manipulating a text message from U.S. House Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) to then White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

The text message was part of a graphic that was read by U.S. House Rep Adam Schiff (D-CA) during a Monday night hearing where the committee recommended contempt charges against Meadows.

The Federalist reported on the initial discrepancy, suggesting that Schiff was perhaps responsible for the error, as it was unclear at that point who the guilty party was and he was the one who read it off.

A Democrat spokesman for the committee, however, provided a statement to The Federalist via email where they confessed that the committee doctored the text message.

The spokesman told The Federalist, “The Select Committee on Monday created and provided Representative Schiff a graphic to use during the business meeting quoting from a text message from ‘a lawmaker’ to Mr. Meadows.”

“The graphic read, ‘On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all,'” the spokesman wrote.

Admitting to the error, the spokesman explained, “In the graphic, the period at the end of that sentence was added inadvertently. The Select Committee is responsible for and regrets the error.”

As The Federalist noted, the Jan. 6 committee spokesman did not explain how one could “inadvertently” cut a sentence in half and eliminate the final two paragraphs of a detailed legal summary, nor did he explain why Schiff attributed the content of the text to Jordan, “a lawmaker,” rather than to attorney Joseph Schmitz, who wrote it.

Earlier this morning, The Federalist reported that on Jan. 5, 2021, Jordan forwarded to Meadows a three-paragraph legal summary from Schmitz, summarizing a four-page legal memorandum Schmitz had written regarding congressional certification of the 2020 presidential electoral vote count.