Trump Is Witness Tampering Mark Meadows. This Is Yet Another Crime

Donald Trump is the one who keeps complaining that we have two tiers of justice in this country. We’re going to find out in the next couple of days if that’s true or not. Trump is livid at Mark Meadows — and Jenna Ellis and Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell and others that he knows are going to flip any minute now. But he is particularly incensed at Meadows, because Meadows can screw him up not only with Jack Smith’s January 6 case but with Fani Willis’ Georgia case as well.

Trump’s always livid these days but it’s the way he’s handling being livid, which is the issue. He posted a screed on social media Tuesday night that is bona fide witness tampering and there ain’t no two ways about it. He probably thinks that since he got a brief stay on Judge Chutkan’s gag order, while the matter is being appealed, that he can run wild. He cannot. Witness tampering is yet another crime and here’s a perfect example of it.

Of course he misspelled “stolen” once again and he also misspelled “capitol.” The stupid son of a bitch doesn’t know the difference between capital and capitol. Sigh.

I’ve been involved in hundreds of witness tampering cases. I’ve seen many people go to prison for less than the post Trump just made to Mark Meadows.

An absolutely clear and blatant violation of his pretrial release conditions and the government should file motion to revoke it.

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) October 25, 2023

The good news is this pretty much confirms that Meadows spilled the beans and Trump is terrified

— Josh (@JoshMar17708840) October 25, 2023

That is absolutely the case. Today is arguably the worst day of Donald Trump’s sheltered bubble of a privileged life of non stop criming. He was miserable in court today and his lawyers had to calm him down. And he fears an “avalanche of co-conspirators to flip,” according to Rolling Stone.

[…] several of Trump’s attorneys have been briefing the ex-president on what one source calls “threat and [potential] damage assessments.” These assessments have explained to Trump which co-defendants the lawyers believe are likeliest to cut a deal, and which ones prosecutors likely believe could do the most damage to Trump, if called to testify, according to the sources.

As part of this effort, the former president’s team has also been digging into troves of past communications and private documents related to some of these co-defendants, targeting those deemed likely to cooperate with prosecutors. The purpose of the research, according to the sources with knowledge of the matter, has been to unearth materials that Trump attorneys could use to undermine the credibility of these would-be witnesses.

People with knowledge of the matter say that Trump’s legal team has quietly carried out research along these lines into former Trump campaign attorney Ellis, Chesebro, who helped the campaign design the fake electors scheme, and Trump’s own former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, among others.

It is still unclear what Meadows will ultimately do in these cases — but some of his, and his lawyer’s, moves have given Team Trump reason to sweat.

Ahhh, poor Donald. He’s sweating big orange beads of spray tanned perspiration. They just drop from his rolls of fat like cantaloupes and go splat. And he’s so stressed out that the last cotton candy hairs that he manages to glue into place these days are on the verge of falling out. And he doesn’t sleep well, oh no. Who would, with six trials all cooking in the legal system at the same time, like the cauldrons in some demented banquet facility in Hell?

He’s furious at Meadows because Meadows can mess him up, bigly. Not just with Jack Smith and the January 6 case, but with the Georgia election racketeering case as well.

Meadows has also prompted speculation that he may look to avoid liability in the Fulton County case by highlighting Trump’s potential culpability. As Politico noted in September, a lawyer for Meadows pointedly noted in a pre-trial hearing that the infamous phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger contained “a lot of statements by Mr. Trump” but included no demands to “change the vote totals” from Meadows.

The relatively lenient deals for Ellis, Cheseboro and Powell — who received probation and fines — have given some of Trump’s co-defendants an opportunity to end at least part of their election-related legal headaches without jail time and to save on the expensive legal bills that have weighed on Trump’s fellow accused. A fourth defendant in the Georgia case, bail bondsman Scott Hall, pleaded guilty to conspiring to access voting machine data. But it is unclear whether other defendants could take up similar offers.

“For the fourth time, Fani Willis and her prosecution team have dismissed the [racketeering and conspiracy] charge in return for a plea to probation,” Trump attorney Steven Sadow said in a statement responding to Ellis’s plea agreement on Tuesday, calling the charges against Trump’s co-defendants “nothing more than a bargaining chip for DA Willis.”

And as bad as this is, it does get worse. Incredible but true. None of Trump’s lawyers trust the other lawyers and they all have enough sense not to trust him.

[…] Trump’s legal advisers are grappling with another recurring problem this year: chronic distrust and petty feuds in their own ranks. Some of this drama has already exploded into public view, and cost Trump the services of some of his leading defense attorneys.

The level of distrust among Trump’s current lawyers has reached a point where some of them have privately spread rumors or speculation this year that other Trump attorneys are secretly cooperating with federal or Fulton County prosecutors, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.

The sources add that this has hampered the multiple legal teams’ work defending Trump, because it has on occasion limited what these lawyers think they should say in the presence of the Trump attorneys they don’t trust.

Trump is tentatively scheduled to stand trial in Fulton County in early 2024.

He’ll have somebody representing him, I guess. For all the good that it will do. And the Mark Meadows flip makes one other Bizarro world development make perfect sense now. I’m sure you saw this morning’s post about Trump’s lawyers filing an insane motion to dismiss the January 6 case. They probably knew or strongly suspected that Meadows had or was going to flip and so they were trying to create a diversion. That motion is a specious, makeweight, frivolous rag, the kind of thing that lawyers get sanctioned for. And Trump’s lawyers may get sanctioned for it. Not that they pay their sanctions, but that’s a different issue.

It’s all downhill from here folks. Today was arguably the worst day in Trump’s life but that’s the worse day up until now. Much worse days are yet to come. Watch.