White Housec hief of staff Mark Meadows listens as US President Donald Trump. July 2020. Image: Alamy Stock Photo White Housec hief of staff Mark Meadows listens as US President Donald Trump. July 2020. Image: Alamy Stock Photo US POLITICIANS HAVE voted to recommend criminal contempt charges against Donald Trump’s former top aide Mark Meadows for refusing to testify before the congressional panel investigating the 6 January assault on the Capitol.
The panel is investigating Trump’s efforts to overturn his defeat in the November 2020 election in the run-up to the Capitol riot – as well as the help he got from Meadows and others. The nine-member select committee, which voted Monday to advance the contempt case, says it is seeking answers about text messages and other communications that Meadows has already acknowledged are not privileged.
Each begged Meadows – unsuccessfully – to get Trump to call off his supporters and put a stop to the violence. “It’s disappointing and unfortunately not surprising that some of the very same individuals who were willing to warn, condemn and express horror over what happened on January 6 in private were totally silent… or, even worse, were spreading lies and conspiracy theories,” President Joe Biden’s spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters.
The Meadows case is a federal issue, however, and the 62-year-old Florida native will have to sweat until the Justice Department decides whether prosecutors will take up the House referral.
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