Ex-Chief of Staff #MarkMeadows granted #immunity, tells #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith that he warned #Trump the #2020election claims were false.
Meadows said Trump was "dishonest"
#BigLie
https://abcnews.go.com/US/chief-staff-mark-meadows-granted-immunity-tells-special/story?id=104231281
#Trump's final chief of staff, #MarkMeadows, has spoken w/ #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith's team ≥3X this yr, incl’g 1X before a #federal #GrandJury, which came only after Smith granted #Meadows #immunity to get him to #testify #UnderOath.
Sources said Meadows informed Smith's team he had REPEATEDLY told Trump in the wks after the 2020 election that the allegations of significant voting #fraud coming to them were baseless, a striking break from Trump's prolific rhetoric regarding the election.
#law
#MarkMeadows also told the federal investigators #Trump was being "dishonest" w/the public when he first claimed to have won the election only hours after polls closed on Nov 3, 2020, before final results were in.
(duh.)
"Obviously we didn't win," a source quoted #Meadows as telling #JackSmith's team in hindsight.
Trump has called Meadows, one of TFG's closest & highest-ranking aides, a "special friend" & "a great chief of staff -- as good as it gets."
(He’ll likely already trashing him)
The descriptions of what #Meadows allegedly told investigators shed further light on the evidence #JackSmith's team has amassed…. The descriptions also expose how far #Trump loyalists like Meadows have gone to support & defend Trump.
…Smith's investigators were keenly interested in…Meadows’…election-related conversations he had w/Trump during his final mos in office, & if Meadows actually believed the claims…in a book he published after Trump left office — which promised to "correct the record”
ABC News ID’d several assertions in #MeadowsBook that contradict what he told investigators.
Acc/to #MarkMeadows’ book, the election was "stolen" & "rigged" w/help from "allies in the liberal media," who ignored "actual evidence of fraud, right there in plain sight for anyone to access & analyze."
#Trump #legal #law #criminal #conspiracy #obstruction #ElectionInterference #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith
But, as described to ABC, #MarkMeadows privately told #JackSmith's investigators that -- to this day -- he has yet to see any evidence of fraud that would have kept now-president Joe #Biden from the WhiteHouse,
& he told them HE AGREES w/a govt assessment at the time that the #2020election was THE MOST SECURE ELECTION IN US HISTORY.
#Trump #legal #law #criminal #conspiracy #obstruction #ElectionInterference #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith
…public testimony has shown that in the weeks after the election, #MarkMeadows helped Trump vet allegations of #fraud that were making their way to #Trump from people like #RudyGiuliani….
But #Meadows said that by mid-Dec, he privately told Trump that Giuliani hadn't produced ANY #evidence to back up the many (inane) allegations he was making. Then-AG #BillBarr also told Trump & Meadows in an Oval Office meeting that allegations of election fraud were "not panning out”….
#MarkMeadows repeatedly said publicly he thought "a number of allegations" warranted "further investigation," & that he "hadn't reached a conclusion" on the election by late Dec.
On Dec 11, 2020 when #SCOTUS denied his final court challenge, #Trump told Meadows something to the effect of, "Then that's the end," or, "So that's it," #Meadows told investigators.
Still, Trump cont’d insisting there was widespread fraud but that the #DOJ wasn't "looking for it," Barr said.
On Jan 2, 2021, #MarkMeadows helped set up the now-infamous phone call between #Trump & #Georgia Secy of State #BradRaffensberger, during which Trump pressed #Raffensberger to "find 11,780 votes ... because we won the state."
#Meadows has said publicly that he essentially introduced everyone on the call -- which is corroborated by transcripts of the call that were made public -- & he has said he was simply trying to help them resolve a dispute over GA's election results.
On the call, #Trump mentioned allegations of fraudulent ballots hidden in suitcases, which the #DOJ had already taken "a hard look at" & debunked, acc/to #BillBarr's testimony.
#MarkMeadows told #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith's team that, around that time, he often wanted to #resign over concerns that the way certain allegations of #fraud were being handled could have a negative impact -- but didn't because he wanted to help ensure a peaceful transfer of power.
(it’s not mark would lie, right? 🤣)
