Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Tuesday has begun engaging with the Jan. 6 select committee through his attorney after initially defying the panel’s subpoena, which the panel warned could land him a referral for criminal contempt if he didn’t comply this week.
As long as they only ask the former Cheap of Staph about statements of fact, there is no non-privileged information to hold back.
As expected, some of the Trump minions will fold under the pressure of a contempt conviction, and all the legal expenses of fighting it. Meadows may still try to hold some stuff back, especially since he appears to be a key connection between some of the parties…he may also do the smart thing and make a deal, as the first person to make a deal usually gets the best one.
It’s going to be very interesting when the committee starts putting out reports and holding public hearings, they are working through people and will get to the bottom of what happened, and anyone that refuses to work with them is going to find themselves in very hot water, as the committee will have the story of what they did and make it clear why they refused to cooperate. DoJ is going to take that and build a legal case, and some of these people will go to prison as a result. And a good thing, having any administration attempt to hold office after losing an election has to be smacked down hard, otherwise we won’t be a democracy for too much longer.
He might be engaging, but he wont talk at all. If cornered he will plead the Fifth, there were all kinds of crimes committed and he was in the thick of it.
Of course Marky Mark had to make big noises and emit his manly musk…but I knew he couldn’t keep it up.
I figured it was time for him to capitulate…of course, he will plead the fifth…but I think he will appear.
“We appreciate the Select Committee’s openness to receiving voluntary responses on non-privileged topics.”
We appreciate the Select Committee accepting only the answers we want to give to question we want asked.
“Is it a fact that you and Trump planned the 1/6 insurrection” might raise an objection.
It’s a cinch Meadows is up to shenanigans with this proffer, stalling, bait and switch.
Variations On a Theme By Clinton - “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”
Thompson said that Meadows’ attorney has provided records to the committee and that Meadows will soon appear for an initial deposition.
Folded like one of his cheap suits. First time in his life bannon has been useful.
The committee is not the prosecution, they can’t offer a plea deal. They can, however, offer immunity, such as was disastrously (intentionally?) done during the Iran Contra hearings. Ollee-in-free North didn’t even need a pardon.
Most of these critters were alive during Iran Contra, and their voters remember. So I don’t think anyone will get immunity.
DoJ is going to take that and build a legal case
DoJ does not require a committee criminal referral to build or even complete an indictment, though it (sometimes) helps. It can also really gum things up if any immunity was offered, or if information becomes public that DoJ would prefer did not (don’t let the indictees know what DoJ has).
“…an accommodation that does not require Mr. Meadows to waive Executive Privilege or to forfeit the long-standing position that senior White House aides cannot be compelled to testify before Congress.”
“Long-standing positions”?
We blew threw “long-standing positions” when a sitting President conspired in criminal insurrection against his own Constitution.
We blew threw “long-standing positions” when armed cop-killers tried to assassinate the Speaker of the House.
We blew through “long-standing positions” when the White House, itself, engaged in an attempted coup, with the knowledge and support of “senior White House aides” like Meadows.
“Long-standing positions” are as dead as Officer Sicknick.
To hell with “long-standing positions”.
Well, I guess spending the holidays in jail wasn’t very appealing to Mr meadows.
Nonsense. There’s zero evidence that Obama ordered anything like an insurrection in violation of the Kenyan constitution.
Expect lies, bad memory, obfuscations, and deflections.
It’s the way criminals are when they are caught.
He has had a lot of Tea at the Party.
There’s a bright golden haze on Mark Meadows.
LEO, DOJ, Legal/Justice System…
Frederick Forsyth, in his writer’s narrative in the prose of the novel The Day of the Jackal, alluded to the United States being a stable democratic Republic.
We have taken this for granted for many years.
Weren’t some of Nixon’s staff forced to testify before congress?
Exactly. None of this “tradition” applies to criminal co-conspirators.
Every institutional practice in our society which exists to guard our civilized interactions is open season for Trump and his destroyers.
EVERY FUCKING ONE