CNN leaks Chip Roy texts regarding 2020 presidential election challenge

Editor’s Note: Per CNN, personal information has been removed and profanity adjusted in the quoted text messages. Errors in spelling and grammar were not corrected.

Last week, CNN published texts sent from Texas Republican Representative Chip Roy between November 5, 2020, and January 6, 2021, to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. The texts chronicle initial support of legal challenges from President Trump regarding the 2020 Presidential Election that ultimately turned to condemnation.

“No apologies for my private texts or public positions – to those on the left or right,” Roy tweeted Friday afternoon. “I stand behind seeking the truth, fighting nonsense, & then acting in defense of the Constitution.”

Bandera County Republican Party Chair Lynn Haueter said Roy has been consistent and honest in his opinions of the 2020 election.

“It’s not surprising he would have pressed early on for more evidence of the stolen election. It’s also not surprising that he would have acted in a way that he believed was consistent with the constitution, “she said. “Whether you agree with him or not, Chip is honest and a man of integrity. I, personally, am extremely thankful to have him as my Representative in Congress.”

Rep. Roy texted Meadows on November 5, 2021, “We have no tools / data / information to go out and fight RE: election fraud. If you need / want it, we all need to know what’s going on.”

He texted Meadows November 22 that the party needed a controlled message, to which Meadows replied, “Working on it.”

“If we don’t get logic and reason in this before 11/30 – the GOP conference will bolt (all except the most hard core Trump guys,” texted Roy, who represents Texas’ 21st Congressional District, which includes 829,628 people living in all or parts of Austin, Bandera, Boerne, Fredericksburg, Ingram, Kerrville, Kyle, New Braunfels and San Marcos.

On November 25, Roy asked, “Where do we stand, brother? do we have anything to put out that can make the case?”

Roy texted Meadows again the next day asking for “a message to go offense.”

“I think there’s a strong message that would be louder and better than Sydney/Rudy have been doing, but it’s hard to keep up.”

Meadows did not appear to respond.

On New Year’s Eve 2020, Roy texted Meadows again saying President Trump “should call everyone off.”

“If we substitute the will of states through electors with a vote by Congress every 4 years, we have destroyed the electoral college,” Roy said.

The next day, Roy texted, “If POTUS allows this to occur… we’re driving a stake in the heart of the federal republic.”

A few days later, Roy texted Meadows saying he was “truly sorry” to be in a “different spot than you” and their “brothers” regarding January 6, but that he would “defend all.”

On January 6, Rep. Roy did not voice objections regarding the results of the 2020 presidential election results.

“This is a sh*tshow. Fix this now,” Roy texted Meadows on January 6, 2021.

“We are,” replied Meadows. When the house reconvened after four hours of protests at the Capitol, Roy said on the house floor, “The President should never have spun up certain Americans to believe something that simply cannot be.”

According to insider.com, at least 816 people have been arrested and charged with crimes stemming from events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and 251 federally charged individuals have entered guilty pleas as of April 11.