Tag Archives: Mark Meadows

Judge Denies Meadows’ Request To Delay Surrender

Forbes reports: A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a bid from former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows to delay his imminent arrest in Fulton County, Georgia, after Meadows and several other Trump allies-turned-defendants pushed for a federal trial in a broad Georgia election interference case that ensnared former President Donald Trump. Meadows’ attorney, John Moran, had requested an emergency …

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Meadows Appeals Refusal To Delay His Surrender

From a motion filed this morning by Meadows’ lawyers: District Attorney Fani Willis has made clear that she intends to arrest Mr. Meadows before this Court’s Monday hearing and has rejected out of hand a reasonable request to defer one business day until after this Court’s hearing. Absent this Court’s intervention, Mr. Meadows will be denied the protection from arrest …

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Willis Rejects Meadows’ Request To Delay Surrender

Mediaite reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis denied a request from former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to delay his arrest, in a terse but polite letter to Meadows attorney John Moran. While a parade of those defendants have begun showing up to surrender for arrest, Meadows and his attorney asked for more time — a request that …

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Pence Advisor: Mark Meadows Was A J6 “Ringleader”

“I don’t think any of us relish witnessing what’s happening with these people that we worked with. I think it’s fair to say that, you know, Mark was a ringleader of much of the events that happened around January 6th. He was somebody who, the president sought to find additional attorneys who gave advice different than the White House counsel, …

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Clark And Meadows Seek Delay To Surrender Deadline

The Daily Beast reports: Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has asked a federal court to intervene in moving his deadline to surrender in the Georgia election RICO indictment. Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who is one of 18 co-defendants indicted alongside Donald Trump in a racketeering case in Georgia, also asked a judge Tuesday to …

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NYT Report Suggests Meadows Has Flipped On Trump

The New York Times reports: Mr. Meadows — Mr. Trump’s final White House chief of staff — initially declined to answer certain questions, sticking to his former boss’s position that they were shielded by executive privilege. But when prosecutors working for the special counsel, Jack Smith, challenged Mr. Trump’s executive privilege claims before a judge, Mr. Meadows pivoted. Even though …

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Meadows Claims Immunity From All Georgia Charges

CNN reports: Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows has asked a federal court to order all charges against him brought by Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutors last week to be dismissed, since he says the charges relate to his then-role in the federal government. In a weekend filing, Meadows argues he should have immunity from the state’s 2020 election interference …

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Meadows Testified That Trump Never Declassified Docs

ABC News reports: Appearing to contradict former President Donald Trump’s primary public defense in the classified documents case, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has told special counsel Jack Smith’s investigators that he could not recall Trump ever ordering, or even discussing, declassifying broad sets of classified materials before leaving the White House, nor was he aware of …

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Meadows Seeks To Move Georgia Case To Federal Court

ABC News reports: Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows officially filed Tuesday to move the case brought against him by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis into federal court, just a day after he was indicted along with former President Donald Trump and 17 others on charges of attempting to overturn Trump’s election loss in the state. The …

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Christie: I Think Meadows Is A “Cooperating Witness”

Mediaite reports: Many have speculated that Mark Meadows has cooperated with prosecutors, with some pointing to the fact that Meadows – who was a key figure in Trump’s inner circle after the election – is largely absent from the indictment. Appearing on Monday’s AC360 on CNN, Christie was asked if he thinks Meadows will be called to testify as a …

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REPORT: Trump Team Suspects Mark Meadows Is A Rat

Rolling Stone reports: Earlier this year, Donald Trump sent some of his lawyers and political advisers on a “small fact-finding mission,” as a person with knowledge of the matter describes it to Rolling Stone. The former president wanted to know, according to that source and another person close to Trump: “What is Mark doing?” Trump was referring to his former …

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Meadows Testifies Before Special Counsel’s Grand Jury

The New York Times reports: Mark Meadows, the final White House chief of staff under President Donald J. Trump and a potentially key figure in inquiries related to Mr. Trump, has testified before a federal grand jury hearing evidence in the investigations being led by the special counsel’s office, according to two people briefed on the matter. Mr. Meadows is …

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Appeals Court: Trump Aides Must Testify In GA Case

The Hill reports: The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Department of Justice Tuesday in ordering testimony from former chief of staff Mark Meadows and other top Trump White House staffers in DOJ’s Jan. 6 investigation. Trump had appealed a sealed decision from then-D.C. District Court Judge Beryl Howell last week that rejected his claims of executive privilege …

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Trump Appeals To Block Meadows From Testifying

The Washington Examiner reports: Former President Donald Trump filed an appeal Tuesday to block grand jury testimony from several former White House advisers, including Mark Meadows, for an investigation into 2020 general election subversion efforts. U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell, whose tenure recently ended in the District of Columbia Court, denied Trump’s bid earlier this month to thwart efforts …

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Top Trump Aides Ordered To Testify In January 6 Probe

ABC News reports: A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s claims of executive privilege and has ordered Mark Meadows and other former top aides to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn the election leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. …

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Special Counsel Subpoenas Meadows In J6 Probe

Bloomberg News reports: Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump’s last chief of staff, has been subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to a person familiar with the matter. Meadows was subpoenaed as part of an investigation being led by Special Counsel Jack Smith and would become the highest-ranking official who …

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Meadows Crony To Plead Guilty To Felony Charge

Politico reports: A family friend of Mark Meadows has agreed to plead guilty to accepting an illegal campaign contribution during an ill-fated 2020 run to succeed the former Trump White House chief of staff in Congress, according to newly-released court papers. Lynda Bennett, who lost in a 2020 Republican primary campaign to Madison Cawthorn, accepted a contribution from a family …

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Meadows Escapes North Carolina Voter Fraud Charges

The Associated Press reports: Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff to President Donald Trump, won’t face voter fraud charges related to his 2020 registration and absentee vote in North Carolina, the state’s attorney general announced Friday. Meadows drew the attention of government attorneys when details that he was simultaneously registered to vote in North Carolina and two …

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REPORT: Meadows Burned Docs In WH Office Fireplace

The Independent reports: A fresh batch of transcripts released by the committee investigating the Capitol riots on Tuesday revealed Ms Hutchinson’s testimony from May in which she had told the committee that she saw Mr Meadows burn documents in his office fireplace around a dozen times – about once or twice a week – between December 2020 and mid January …

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Texts To Meadows Show GOP Reps Seeking Pardons For Family Friends, Other Republicans, And Accused Cops

Talking Points Memo reports: The text messages Mark Meadows turned over to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack show how frantically former President Trump and his allies worked to reverse the results in the 2020 election. They also reveal how many members of Congress and other political allies were part of this chaotic push to overturn Trump’s …

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