What did Mark Meadows say about Trump’s knowledge of 2020 election fraud in immunity deal?
Former White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, has been granted immunity by Special Counsel Jack Smith shares what he informed Trump about election fraud.
And yet another shoe drops for former President Trump with the news that his former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has been testifying under oath to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team. According to reporting from ABC News, Meadows, after being granted immunity, has spoken at least three times with investigators this year, including once before the grand jury investigating Donald Trump’s efforts to hold on to power and overturn the results of the 2020 general election.
Trump was charged in August with four felony counts for attempting to interfere in the counting of votes and trying to block the certification of Joe Biden as the winner by instigating the January 6th assault on the US Capitol. He has pleaded not guilty. This is one of two federal criminal cases brought by the Special Counsel against Trump, the other involves the former president’s handling and refusing to return classified documents after leaving the White House.
The former president is dealing with legal jeopardy on several fronts with 91 felony counts in total, in four jurisdictions both federal and state.
Trump is facing felony racketeering charges in Georgia for interfering in the election result in the state, with the dominos beginning to fall there as another of his once 18 codefendants pleading guilty and agreeding to cooperate with authorities. Additionally, he is charged in another criminal case in New York for hush money payments in 2016 to adult-movie actress Stormy Daniels along with two civil lawsuits in New York.
What did Mark Meadows say about Trump’s knowledge of 2020 election fraud in immunity deal?
Meadows could be a significant witness with his intimate knowledge of Trump’s awareness of the provenly false election fraud that he still claims to have occurred during the 2020 general election. The former Chief of Staff is one of the codefendants in the Georgia case as well, for his efforts to overturn the results in that state but does not have immunity there. He is currently appealing a denial of his request to have those charges moved to federal court.
According to ABC News, sources have told the media outlet that Meadows testified that Trump was being “dishonest” with the public when he claimed victory in the 2020 presidential election before the final results were in and all the ballots had been counted. Speaking from hindsight, “Obviously we didn’t win,” Meadows told investigators according to a source.
Furthermore, he repeatedly told Trump that the allegations of significant voting fraud in the weeks after the presidential election in 2020 were baseless. And privately told Smith’s team “he has yet to see any evidence of fraud that would have kept now-president Joe Biden from the White House.” Also that he agrees with the government’s assessment, which got the CISA Director Christopher Krebs fired by Trump, that the 2020 presidential election was “the most secure in American history.”
This latest information is a far cry from what Trump is still saying and what Meadows himself has said in the book he published in order to “correct the record” on Trump and publicly in interviews until going quiet.