Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who chairs the House intelligence committee and serves on the Jan. 6 select committee, on Sunday said that the committee investigating the events of Jan. 6 will “move quickly” to refer Trump former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for criminal contempt after his refusal to meet with congressional investigators last week.
Normally I’d say markymeadows will fold because he’s soft, but he might be so desperate to prove his loyalty to TFG that he’ll go to prison for him. He’s dumb enough to still not grasp that the loyalty is a one way street and the only minions getting rewards are the ones with good dirt (on TFG).
Mark Meadows, come on down!
His political career is over one way or the other, he just doesn’t know it yet. He thinks he can be a made man by staying silent.
I’ve given up predicting what anybody will do. A year ago, I could not have imagined I would be rooting for Liz Cheney.
-smh
Trump blabbing about the status of Mike Pence and his other musings to Jon Karl about Jan 6 may dent the exec. privilege claim. You are correct that Meadows has no political career in his future.
Certain true believers will refuse to cooperate, simply because they don’t believe in our laws or democracy and only have fealty to Trump or their twisted beliefs in turning America into a Republican run Christian theocracy. Others, who either don’t believe as firmly or who don’t have the money, or who fear being put into jail and being treated like Black prisoners, will cooperate…they may fight and try to avoid answering some questions, but they will go along to avoid punishment. I think enough will cooperate that we’ll get the full picture of what happened, and we’ll get it before the election next year so the House Democrats can turn a report and the evidence over to the DoJ for criminal investigations.
Which brings us back to that confounding question: why on earth did he leave his perfectly safe western NC seat for a seven month stint as a figurehead white house chief of staff?
Though with cawthorn hopping seats over to the next district, that does make the path back to meadowmuffin’s old seat a little easieir.
That always baffled me too. All I can think of is that pols without principles instinctively move towards the center of power in DC. Like Lindsey Graham, a similar case.
Meadows was so deep in the GOP bubble that he probably just assumed Trump would win a second term. And then maybe he could use the CoS position as a springboard to the 2024 Presidential primary. Then reality came and smacked him upside the head.
Most of the world will erupt, VE-Day like, in spontaneous celebration, when there’s finally “dirt on TFG”.
(If you know what I mean, and I think you do.)
My wayward circus son rolled into Penn Station on the night of May 2 2011. He didn’t understand why everyone told him New Yorkers were unfriendly until he poured out of the bar the next morning and stumbled past a news stand.
IMO, the biggest factor wrt Mark Meadows is if he has someone behind the scenes to pay for his lawyers. He is not a wealthy man, and what wealth he had mostly disappeared sometime before he took the CoS role.
IIRC, he lost a great deal of what wealth he had (don’t know why) not long before he took the CoS position. I wonder if that might have domething to do with it.
he joined to help with the government coup.
Although in fairness, he thought they were talking about a chicken coop so that the foxes wouldn’t have to worry about the barn.
Meadows, Bannon and the others are still trying to run out the clock because they believe the fix is in. Now is a time for picking sides, and they are sticking with Trump.
Good question. I wonder if in addition to this, he has any criminal liability in the Georgia election interference case, alongside Trump. I think he’s on record making some pretty damning statements.
A) Meadows is irredeemably stupid.
B) He believed he was on the ground floor of a two-term (or more!) presidency/dictatorship.
C) Meadows is irredeemably stupid.
I know that I’m not that well versed in politics or law, but I can understand a sitting President want advise/counsel before creating policy or taking some sort action in the name of the US people and government, not his 'effing response to losing an election. Especially when all the court cases, except one, went against him, and his crack team of crackpots couldn’t even deliver even one credible example of shenanigans in the 2020 election.
Don’t know about you, but may he RIP will NOT be on my lips.