The January 17, 2021 text message sent by MP Marjorie Taylor Green to Mark Meadows, chief of staff to former President Donald Trump, “further undermined her credibility as a witness,” one of the lawyers trying to prevent her from running. for re-election Yahoo News said on Friday.
John Boniface, a lawyer who is part of a team representing five Georgian voters in an effort to block Green from running for a second term in Congress using a 14th Amendment provision, said the disclosure of the text message in an article by CNN contradicts Green’s testimony last week.
“This confirmed to us that it is crucial to ask these questions and that this has further undermined her credibility as a witness,” Boniface said.
During her testimony, Green was asked, “Before you took office in 2021, did you advocate martial law with the President of the United States?”
“I do not remember. I don’t remember, “said Green, who was under oath.
Green was also asked if, “before Joe Biden took office,” she advocated for martial law in talks with then-President Trump’s chief of staff.
“I don’t remember,” Green said.
The text message, first received by CNN, shows that Green has raised the issue of martial law with Meadows.
“In our private chat with members only, a few say that the only way to save our republic is for Trump to call for a Marshall Act. [sic]. I don’t know about these things. I just wanted you to tell him, “Green wrote in a text to Meadows, published in a CNN article.” They stole the election. We all know. Then they will destroy our country. Please tell him to declassify as much as possible so we can pursue Biden and everyone else! “
Lawyers seeking to keep Green out of the ballot filed a petition on Friday, addressing a newly revealed text message.
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Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green at a press conference on the steps of the US Capitol on April 28. (Nathan Posner / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
“Green’s testimony during the hearing that she could not remember discussing martial law with anyone is now questionable,” the request said. “This text with President Trump’s chief of staff makes her testimony even more incredible because it looks like a message with the kind of recipient that a reasonable person who testifies to the truth would remember.
Boniface told Yahoo News that it was tense to believe that Green might have forgotten Meadows’ text.
“I don’t think it’s believable that she had communicated with the president’s chief of staff about something so extraordinary about imposing martial law to keep the president in power, and she wouldn’t have remembered that.
Green’s lawyer, James Bopp Jr., told Yahoo News that the wording of the text, reported by CNN, showed that Green was telling the truth in court.
“A few say ‘are the right words here,” Bopp Jr. said, adding, “Whether they are hers or not, I know. “Several say.” So, she overheard a conversation, well, and she reported that to Mark Meadows in the text. So she doesn’t discuss it with them either – that is, with these other members [of Congress] – nor does he discuss it with Mark. They are not like going back and forth or anything like that. She said others had said so. And then she gives a very neutral, real disclaimer, saying, “I don’t know about these things.”
Bop Jr. continued, “She doesn’t hug him [martial law] either stand up for it or do something. “
On Thursday, Green was confronted by the Capitol by CNN presenter Jim Acosta, who asked her directly about the text message to Meadows.
While Green reiterated that she did not remember sending Meadows the text of the martial law, she also corrected Acosta’s presentation of its contents.
“I think what’s happening here is that Marjorie Taylor Green is dancing around the truth because she’s been asked a number of questions about it,” Boniface said. She wasn’t just asked, “Did you talk to Donald Trump or talk to Donald Trump about martial law?” She was asked, “Did you contact his chief of staff about this?” Apparently she did, based on this text message. “
“I don’t think she can have it either way,” he added. “She can’t say on the one hand, ‘I don’t know anything about this text; I’ve never seen it, I don’t remember it “and on the other hand to defend its contents so vigorously.”
But Bopp said Green was also consistent in his responses to Acosta, noting that he sent his client the contents of her alleged text message on April 26.
“She said she still doesn’t remember doing it,” Bopp told Green, who sent the text to Meadows. a few days “
As the judge decides the case in the coming days, Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Rafensperger will eventually decide whether to include Green’s name on state ballots. Given the infrequent use of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits those “who took part in an uprising or riot” from running for office, the odds seem to be in order against the plaintiffs. But Boniface believes their legal team has done its job.
“We are confident in the evidence and we are confident in the law, but I cannot guess what Secretary Rafensberger will do or what this administrative law judge will do,” he said.
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