2023-08-08 10:48:15
In June 2022, the weekly The New Yorker capped an opinion piece with the following title: “Without Mark Meadows, January 6 may never have happened”. In a key paragraph of the article, journalist Susan Glasser wrote: “In our new book, The Divider : Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, which will be published in September, my husband and I write that Mr. Meadows has played a double game such as has seldom been seen, even in the swamps of Washington. He told both sides what they wanted to hear. He reassured establishment Republicans that he was trying to stop the president from going too far. At the same time, he allowed the conspirators access to the Oval Office to whisper their fantasies – “You really won, don’t give up” – to the defeated president. Meadows played less the role of guardian than that of opener of doors. “Meadows was basically a matador,” a Republican involved in talks with the White House at the time told us. »
Hence the question on the minds of just regarding everyone in Washington these days, including the Wall Street Journal, in its Monday issue: Where is Mark Meadows, the fourth and final White House chief of staff under Donald Trump? In the indictment filed by Special Prosecutor Jack Smith once morest the former president in connection with his efforts to reverse the results of the 2020 presidential election, he is barely present. Which is astonishing to say the least considering that Meadows was embroiled in efforts to create lists of fake voters and that he participated in the phone call in which Trump asked the Secretary of State to Georgia to find him “11,780 votes”, among other alleged crimes.
There are obviously many who think that Meadows continues to play a double game and that he has decided to cooperate with justice. Chris Christie, ex-governor of New Jersey and Republican candidate for president, is part of the group. “I have always said that Mark Meadows was already a cooperative witness”, said Christie Monday night to CNN host Anderson Cooper. “He looks like a cooperative witness, running around cafes away from the press. »
And to add: “In my experience, he was a very involved chief of staff. He made sure to be present at every meeting and every conversation. And we remember there are hundreds of text messages that he gave to the special prosecutor and kept. »
According to Christie, Meadows might provide the “worst testimony” once morest Trump, if one excludes the former president’s family members. Experts have also speculated that the ex-chief of staff might be called to testify in several trials involving Trump, including those in Florida, Washington and Georgia, if the ex-president is indeed indicted in Fulton County. .
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