When asked if he regretted sending a text to the Trump White House urging then-Donald Trump to declare martial law so he can remain in the White House, South Carolina GOP Rep. Ralph Norman said that his only regret was that he misspelled a word.
On Jan. 17, 2021, Norman texted White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and said Trump should declared “Marshall law” in order to reverse the results of the 2020 election.
“Mark, in seeing what’s happening so quickly, and reading about the Dominion law suits attempting to stop any meaningful investigation we are at a point of … no return … in saving our Republic !! Our LAST HOPE is invoking Marshall Law!! PLEASE URGE TO PRESIDENT TO DO SO!!” he wrote at the time.
The texts were handed over by Meadows to the Jan. 6 committee. When asked by HuffPost about his feelings on the exchange, he replied, “Well, I misspelled ‘martial.'”
“I was very frustrated then, I’m frustrated now,” Norman told HuffPost. “I was frustrated then by what was going on in the Capitol. President Biden was in his basement the whole year. Dominion was raising all kinda questions.”
From HuffPost:
A U.S. president hasn’t declared martial law directly, on behalf of the federal government, since the Civil War, according to a 2005 report from the Congressional Research Service. But there have been limited regional martial law declarations, established with explicit or implicit support of the president, mostly related to labor disputes.
