The Jan. 6 select committee on Tuesday informed former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ lawyer that it has been “left with no choice” but to advance contempt proceedings against his client, after the panel warned that the former Trump official would be referred for contempt if he failed to show up for his deposition.
Thompson, in his letter, is not pleased with Meadows’ decision to go back to stonewalling the committee after he had begun engaging with the committee late last month.
Next headline: “Stonewalling Meadows!”
Doesn’t sound to environmentally friendly.
We can do this the easy way…or we can do this your way, Marky.
The republican party are nothing but a pack of traitors.
Yeppers. This will not end well for Meadows, even if he tries to run out the clock.
Has Meadows’ lawyer informed him that he opened a gate in that stonewall, and all those messages are now running free?
From Wiki, re: Mark Meadows:
Prior to December 2018, Meadows claimed to have received a Bachelor of Arts degree.[9] When questions about his credentials arose during media speculation that he was under consideration to serve as White House chief of staff, Meadows amended his official House biography and other sources to indicate that his degree was an associate, not a bachelor’s.[9]
Check, double check, and triple check the metadata on what’s been provided because we don’t need another Dan Rather-like scandal where the committee relies on what’s been provided only to find that it’s inaccurate. Don’t put it past any of these crooks to try to delegitimize the committee and its findings.
The lawmaker, Thompson said, acknowledged that doing so would be “highly controversial” — to which Meadows allegedly replied “I love it.”
Well, sure. I mean, who among us hasn’t expressed a love for subverting the will of the voters and destroying the world’s oldest democracy?
Psssst, Markie, pro tip: After you’ve handed over damning evidence against yourself, it is not a good idea to un-flip. You get all of the risk with none of the benefit.
Two questions:
They misspelled “criminal”.
Poopful Meadows dumps a pile and then says ‘no, ain’t gonna show’? Whoa! That is some majorly stupid stupid.
I’m liking Bennie Thompson - a lot.
They’re stupidly winging it now because they’re all panicked.
Bennie and the Threats
That’s always a good idea, both for the reason you note and also because sometimes you might discover interesting gaps in the data.
You’d think these people would be more eager to get deposed, so they can tell the committee how peaceful the capitol tour was on Jan. 6th.
We’re gonna need a bigger Thompson Sub(poena)Machine Gun.
Meadows would rather than lie about his education than actually do anything about it. And, it shows.
