Donald Trump Jr texted White House chief of staff Mark Meadows two days after the 2000 presidential election with strategies for overturning the result if Trump's father lost, CNN reports.
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The text was sent two days before Joe Biden was declared the winner, according to CNN.
It reportedly laid out strategies that then-president Donald Trump's team pursued in the following months as they disseminated misinformation about election fraud and pressured state and federal officials to assist in that effort.
The cable news network on Friday reported that Trump Jr's text made "specific reference to filing lawsuits and advocating recounts to prevent certain swing states from certifying their results".
It also suggested that if those measures did not work, lawmakers in Congress could dismiss the electoral results and vote to keep Trump in office.
Trump Jr's lawyer Alan Futerfas, said in a statement to CNN: "After the election, Don received numerous messages from supporters and others. Given the date, this message likely originated from someone else and was forwarded."
CNN said the Trump Jr text had been obtained by the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol.
In the past week, the committee has interviewed former President Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner. Their virtual testimonies are the closest lawmakers have come to the former president.
Separately on Friday, Ali Alexander, a conservative activist who helped found the "Stop the Steal" movement, said he had received a subpoena to provide testimony to a federal grand jury as part of the Justice Department's wide investigation into the insurrection.
"I don't believe I have information that will be useful to them but I'm cooperating as best I can further reiterating that I'm not a target because I did nothing wrong," he said.
Alexander voluntarily appeared for hours in December before the House panel investigating the insurrection, providing congressional investigators with a slew of documents and information about his communications with Republican lawmakers.
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