Former Trump administration chief of staff Mark Meadows is reportedly handing over a slew of documents to the Department of Justice, including texts and emails from between Election Day 2020 and January 20th.
following his election loss nearly two years ago — including his involvement in a plot to use fake electors to disrupt the Electoral College and his Save America PAC fundraising efforts that misled donors into believing they were giving him money for his legal challenges against the election’s results.“This is why DOJ did not prosecute Meadows for contempt of Congress: he was already working with them,”, an anti-Trump lawyer. “This is NOT good for Trump.
Others pointed out that Meadows’s actions weren’t that noteworthy, as he was only giving the DOJ evidence he had already supplied to the January 6 committee., a former federal prosecutor, who added that it was “odd that [the DOJ] only subpoenaed materials he already gave to the Jan. 6 Committee .” Barb McQuade, a law professor and former U.S. attorney, agreed that Meadows’s actions weren’t definitionally cooperative.McQuade tweeted“Cooperation means volunteering more information than you have to and substantially assisting in prosecution of others,” she added.
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