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Mark Meadows might get stitches, because snitches [1]

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Date: 2022-09-14

CNN — Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has complied with a subpoena from the Justice Department’s investigation into events surrounding , sources familiar with the matter tell CNN, making him the highest-ranking Trump official known to have responded to a subpoena in the federal investigation. — Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has complied with a subpoena from the Justice Department’s investigation into events surrounding January 6, 2021 , sources familiar with the matter tell CNN, making him the highest-ranking Trump official known to have responded to a subpoena in the federal investigation.

Meadows turned over the same materials he provided to the House select committee investigating the US Capitol attack, one source said, meeting the obligations of the Justice Department subpoena, which has not been previously reported.

Last year, Meadows turned over thousands of text messages and emails to the House committee, before he stopped cooperating. The texts he handed over between Election Day 2020 and Joe Biden’s inauguration, which CNN previously obtained, provided a window into his dealings at the White House, though he withheld hundreds of messages, citing executive privilege.

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Trump has been counseled to cut contact with Meadows, and some of Trump’s attorneys believe Meadows could also be in investigators’ crosshairs and are concerned he could become a fact witness if he’s pushed to cooperate, CNN reported last month. Still, Trump and Meadows have spoken a number of times, according to a source familiar with their relationship.

Another source described their relationship as “not the same as it once was” while in the White House, but said they still have maintained a relationship, even as Trump has complained about Meadows to others.

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x This potentially is huge IF it’s accurate and Meadows truly turned over everything. Shows DOJ getting serious and going to the top of the food chain.



Exclusive: Mark Meadows complied with DOJ subpoena in January 6 probe - CNNPolitics https://t.co/K2kfdj18ZB — Andrew Weissmann 🌻 (@AWeissmann_) September 15, 2022

Denver Riggleman is saying that the Committee has held back something explosive on those texts. And what is the explosive stuff to come? It is pretty easy to guess. The Committee will show who planned and oversaw the attack (think war rooms) and who in Congress aided and abetted that plan:

“I actually believe that Cassidy Hutchinson was the bridge to the following — and I will be very careful here — a bridge to the operational planning and the data the committee still has in his back pocket.“

“So again, Mark Meadows is the MVP player for the committee. I think it is the Rosetta Stone. He was in the middle of it all and I think it puts his legal team in a tremendously challenging position.“

So, yes, Meadows’s legal team knows it has no defense. There is no chance that Hutchinson “wanted” to be in the center of the storm and there is no chance that she would risk everything by lying. The person next to Meadows throughout his tenure as Chief of Staff indicted Meadows as a traitor to his country.

Additionally, the Committee has the texts that Meadows once claimed to be privileged. The SCOTUS ruled they are not. “Operational planning” means just that, who planned what and when. If the American people “haven’t heard anything yet,” then it is a safe guess – – because this is speculation now – – that Trump and members of Congress were in on the operational planning and the Committee can and will prove it.

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x BREAKING: Mark Meadows playing ball with feds, complied with DOJ subpoena.



This is why DOJ did not prosecute Meadows for contempt of Congress: he was already working with them.



This is NOT good for Trump. Meadows was Trump’s right hand man on everything related to January 6. — Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) September 15, 2022

x While Republicans are mostly sticking with Donald Trump, independents are jumping ship. Only 27 percent want him to run in 2024. https://t.co/XZx3f6opnh — The New Republic (@newrepublic) September 12, 2022

(CNN) Former President Donald Trump repeatedly told aides in the days following his 2020 election loss that he would remain in the White House rather than let incoming President Joe Biden take over, according to reporting provided to CNN from a forthcoming book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman.

Trump's vow that he would refuse to vacate the White House had no historical precedent, Maggie Haberman writes, and his declaration left aides uncertain as to what he might do next. The closest parallel might have been Mary Todd Lincoln, who stayed in the White House for nearly a month after her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, was assassinated, the author noted.

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