Mark Meadows Flips, Spills to Special Counsel About Trump's Election Lies: Report
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Mark Meadows has reportedly been granted immunity and told Special Counsel Jack Smith that he warned Donald Trump about 2020 election lies.

Mark Meadows has reportedly testified before a federal grand jury impaneled by Special Counsel Jack Smith in exchange for immunity from prosecution in the Justice Department’s election interference case against Donald Trump.

According to ABC News, the former White House chief of staff has testified under oath at least three times, twice before the special counsel’s office and once to a grand jury, regarding the investigation into Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Meadows reportedly testified that he had told the former president the election was lost and, according to sources, testified to the DOJ that “obviously we didn’t win.”

Trump has long suspected that Meadows would flip on him. In June, sources who spoke to Rolling Stone stated that Meadows was referred to as a “rat” among Trump’s inner circle, and indicated that the former president had sent allies on a “small fact-finding mission” to ascertain what Meadows had been telling investigators.

  • memfree@lemmy.ml
    13·
    1 year ago

    Saw this news in another thread and will say here what I said there:

    Meadows has been creating chaos to fill his coffers for years now, so it hurts to hear he won’t face accountability for it.

    RS’s article is shorter than the source they cited. From: https://abcnews.go.com/US/chief-staff-mark-meadows-granted-immunity-tells-special/story?id=104231281

    According to Meadows’ book, the election was “stolen” and “rigged” with help from “allies in the liberal media,” who ignored “actual evidence of fraud, right there in plain sight for anyone to access and analyze.” …

    Meadows went even further while promoting his book on right-wing media in November 2021. When asked by a podcast host if he believes the outcome of the 2020 election was fraudulent, Meadows responded, “I do believe that there are a number of fraudulent states … I’ve seen at least illegal activity in Pennsylvania [and] in Georgia” – referring to two key states that clinched the White House for Biden.

    Under the penalty of perjury, Meadows offered a vastly different assessment to Smith’s investigators, telling them he’s never seen any evidence of fraud that would undermine the election’s outcome, according to what sources told ABC News.

    – So he says he BELIEVES there was fraud despite never seeing evidence – this side steps the actual proof of accurate counts (hand recounts and the like). He has seen evidence of honestly and he’s ignoring it. I guess the man does not believe in honesty.

    Meadows has not been charged in Smith’s federal case, he has been charged – along with Trump, Giuliani and 16 others – by authorities in Georgia for allegedly trying to overturn the election results in that state. …

    Under the immunity order from Smith’s team, the information Meadows provided to the grand jury earlier this year can’t be used against him in a federal prosecution.

    I do hope Georgia gets to prosecute him, and I hope the judge and jury see through his posturing about ‘belief’ in fraud despite evidence of a good count.

      • GeneralVincent@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Essentially he’s getting paid to be a mouthpiece for the far right. Which does mean the trump fanbase is wasting their money in a sense, but it goes toward spreading the message they want told over and over again. So they’re still getting something out of it, and dragging us all down in the process