How Else Did Zeldin Coordinate With Trump White House and Election Deniers to Amplify Big Lie?
For Immediate Release: October 19, 2022
How Else Did Zeldin Coordinate With Trump White House and Election Deniers to Amplify Big Lie?
New York, NY - With new bombshell reporting this week revealing that Lee Zeldin had a more central role in coordinating with the Trump White House to push the Big Lie than previously known, it raises an important question: What other ways did Zeldin coordinate with the Trump White House and other election deniers to plan the effort to discredit and overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election?
According to recently released text messages, Zeldin and White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows conspired – before the 2020 presidential election was even called – to push election conspiracy falsehoods and plan a public campaign to discredit the election results.
Yesterday, Governor Hochul called out Zeldin on the new revelations, saying, “Not only did he vote to overturn the presidential election, but he was also one of the early co-conspirators sending text messages, trying to give a strategy to the White House, the Chief of Staff of the White House, on how to subvert the will of the people.”
Trump’s endorsement of Zeldin on Sunday also seemed to allude to Zeldin’s central role in developing the plan to push the Big Lie, praising Zeldin as a “great and brilliant lawyer” and a “‘must see’ for others in Congress” looking for ways around “complex legal problem[s].” Reminder: Zeldin not only voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election and against the creation of the January 6th committee, he was also considered Trump's "point man" to defend him from impeachment in Congress.
“What other ways did Lee Zeldin coordinate with the Trump White House and election deniers to push the Big Lie?” said New York State Democratic Party Chairman Jay S. Jacobs. “What these revelations show is that Lee Zeldin is so out of the mainstream, so devoted to the extreme fringes of the far-right, that he would go above and beyond to overturn the results of a democratic election. That record is too extreme and too dangerous for New York.”
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