Meadows Just Bollixed His Own Case, Now He’s Trapped Tied To Trump

Interesting what went down in federal court in Atlanta today, when Mark Meadows’ request for a change of venue for his election rackeetering case was denied. By all accounts, Meadows has a good lawyer. So it makes you wonder why the lawyer allowed his client to pursue this unwise course of action, of asking for the change of venue in the first place.

It’s speculated that moving the case to federal court would make it an easier case to win. Maybe that was the lawyer’s gamble, that a wider jury pool would result in Meadows’ salvation. But the problem with taking that gamble is that now Meadows has played his hand so as to not be able to cooperate with prosecutors as a government witness. And that is problematic as hell. That puts him out on a limb.

You just heard it there, Meadows blew his options and he’s not usable as a witness. He pretty much sewed up what Fani Willis has been alleging, which was that Meadows was a part of the crime. He’s got no defense to that and I’m not sure why this case has been handled the way it has.

It seems to me that it would have been more prudent for Meadows to go a different direction and make himself available as a witness for the government immediately, i.e. flip. But somehow, someway, he and his lawyer have convinced themselves that Meadows could finesse his way out of this and if that’s the case, it certainly hasn’t happened yet.

Nor has anything that has happened appeared to be the foreshadowing of some brilliant legal maneuver yet to come.

Again, his lawyer is purportedly competent, but I think Andrew Weissman may be generous in that regard, as to assessing other lawyers’ abilities. I believe it was he who said that John Lauro was competent and we’ve seen Lauro do everything in his power to prove the dead opposite. So Meadows’ lawyer may not be such a whiz kid either. Let’s just say this much, the result that this lawyer has generated for his client so far leaves much to be desired.

It will be interesting to see what Meadows’ next move is. Instinctively? I think Meadows is going to be yet another exhibit to the proposition that Everything Trump Touches Dies. He would have been better off staying a congressman. He’d still have that job and his self respect. And he wouldn’t be with his back against the wall in the middle of a RICO case with Donald Trump and 17 other defendants. That is not a good place to be.

But he put himself there. Nobody else did. If you recall Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony back in the day, she said that she was talking with Meadows after the election about packing things up and he said, “Maybe we won’t have to leave.” So he was either 1) as deluded as Trump; 2) as desirous of Trump staying in power, legitimately or not as Trump was, or 3) both. And he’s going to be in a world of hurt if “both” is proven. And right now it looks like that’s the direction we’re going.

And one thing that makes the change of venue gamble make a small amount of sense now, is that IF Meadows told his lawyer from the get go that he would not flip on Trump, let’s try every other thing that we can, then the lawyer could have responsibly advised him on the change of venue, that being the only other course of action open. And that’s assuming that he couldn’t talk Meadows into becoming a cooperating witness. And maybe Meadows is that obtuse.

And if Meadows is that obtuse, well then he made his bed. Now he can lie in it. And he can lie in the one in the Big House, the one with many doors, that measures 6’8″. That’s the direction this is headed.