WASHINGTON, Dec 2 — A new book and a pledge to testify by former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows could heat up the investigation of ex-president Donald Trump over the storming of the US Capitol.
The panel wants to know how closely Trump and his staff, including Meadows, may have coordinated with the mob of supporters that invaded Congress and temporarily blocked legislators from certifying Biden’s victory. Trump, who was hospitalised just days later — on October 2 — for a serious coronavirus case, stiffly denied in a statement that he had Covid before or during the debate.A longtime real-estate developer in North Carolina, the France-born Meadows served in the House of Representatives from 2013 to 2020.
Even as he stood in the background politically, Meadows was a strident defender of his boss, actively working after Trump’s November defeat to help “overturn the results of the 2020 election or prevent the election’s certification,” the committee said. Trump has invoked presidential executive privilege in a bid to avoid having to turn over documents requested by the committee and to block aides from answering questions.
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