Did you know that a goose could cook itself? You won’t find that in any chef’s manual on the culinary arts but just ask Mark Meadows, he’ll show you how. Meadows complied voluntarily when asked to provide texts of his conversations with Trump and others on January 6. As you know, Meadows is refusing to testify and he even went so far a few days ago as to file suit against Nancy Pelosi and members of the January 6 Committee. But despite that, the texts that are already in the Committee’s possession, “offer a window into what people were texting to Meadows on January 6, what he was telling them about Trump in real time, and what the former President was doing for those hours while the Capitol was under attack and rioters were chanting ‘Hang Mike Pence,’ according to the source,” reports CNN:
The committee’s works is happening on two levels — in public and behind closed doors. The committee has said it has subpoenaed about 40 individuals, but the source tells CNN there are a large number of additional subpoenas that have not been revealed publicly. The source says that among these witnesses are “names we will recognize” and eventually those are likely to become public as well.–
In a letter sent to the Meadows’ attorney on Wednesday, the committee hinted at the content of the texts it has received from Trump’s former chief of staff. The letter noted Meadows provided the committee with “text messages about the need for the former President to issue a public statement that could have stopped the January 6th attack on the Capitol.”The source familiar with the communications tells CNN the texts may not reflect well on the former president.
The House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol on Thursday released slides from a PowerPoint calling for former President Trump to declare a national security emergency in order to delay the certification of the results of the 2020 election. The presentation was referred to in an email provided to the committee by Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff who’s had a rough couple of weeks, to say the least.
The revelation is the latest piece of evidence that Trump and his inner circle, including his allies in Congress, were very actively and very aggressively trying to overturn the results of the election, which Trump lost handily.
The PowerPoint presentation, which spanned 38 pages and was titled “Election fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for 6 JAN,” was part of an email sent on Jan. 5, the day before the attack on the Capitol. The email pertained to a briefing that was to be provided “on the hill.” Hugo Lowell of The Guardian tweeted slides from the presentation on Thursday detailing a conspiracy theory-laden plan for Vice President Pence to install Republican electors in states “where fraud occurred,” and for Trump to declare a national emergency and for all electronic voting to be rendered invalid, citing foreign “control” of electronic voting systems.
Meadows is such a dummy. He’s not only playing around with seditious ideas to overthrow the government, he’s doing this pushmi pullyou routine with the January 6 committee. It’s not going to fly.
The letter sent on Wednesday, which was addressed to Meadows’ attorney, explained that the committee had “no choice” but to move to hold Meadows in contempt of Congress for his refusal to comply with his subpoena. How, if Meadows is refusing to comply, did the committee get ahold of all of these damning documents from the former chief of staff? Meadows last week reached an agreement to cooperate, turned over the material, and then earlier this week changed his mind and is now stonewalling the committee. He’s now suing the committee in an attempt to block his subpoena.
It’s unclear what exactly inspired the reversal. Meadows says the committee was not respecting his claims of executive privilege, to which Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said the committee “tried repeatedly to identify with specificity the areas of inquiry” were subject to privilege, but Meadows wouldn’t cooperate. It’s also possible that Meadows decided to buck the committee after reports began to circulate that Trump was pissed at him for revealing a bunch of damning information about how the White House covered up details of Trump’s bout with Covid last year. It’s also possible that Meadows just isn’t very bright.
Meadows is not very bright and he’s in totally over his head. He has been since he had midnight oil burning sessions with Steve Bannon in his White House war room back in the day. At that time, all Meadows was trying to do was mess with Obamacare and make the Democrats look bad. He was not prepared for this, either temperamentally or experientially. And in fairness, what congress member got into that role thinking that the sitting president, the standard bearer of their party, was going to try to overthrow the government one day and ask for their help? Getting in bed with Trump was a really stupid move, one that Meadows is going to have a long time to think about and regret.
He’s guilty as hell and he’s not smart enough to avoid perjuring himself and he knows it. And surely his lawyers do. This is going to be something.
Tick, tock…Meadows destroyed his life for nothing and had no clue how to effectively play both sides to his advantage. My only concern is that Trump keels over from a stroke or heart attack over this.
You’re concerned…while the rest of us are hoping…
Because I want this to HURT. I want him to feel the pain of watching everything he thought he accomplished be destroyed. To paraphrase the Nolan brothers, only after that will he have my permission to die.
I’m proud a North calalacky boy pulled a card out of the foundation of this house of cards. Hypocritical religiosity rules!
And I thought Mulvaney was a real prize. Meadows appears to be right there with him, in terms of smarts.
Dumb and Dumber…and they called the shots. Really sad…..
Justice moves – slowly.
There may be a 0.00001% chance that Don John just might be able to claim a small amount of ‘privilege’.
However, Meadows has even less of a chance – what statute gives ‘executive privilege’ to an employee?
“IT’S ALSO POSSIBLE THAT MEADOWS JUST ISN’T VERY BRIGHT.” Well just look at whom the voters sent to DC to replace Meadows, and you get an idea of their intelligence level, too. And I say this as a thoroughly disgusted Tarheel.