Mark Meadows burned documents after meeting with GOP congressman, former aide testifies

[groundloop]

Source: Business Insider

Mark Meadows burned documents after meeting with GOP congressman, former aide testifies to Jan. 6 committee: report


One of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows' former aides testified to the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021 riot that she witnessed her boss burn documents after meeting with a Pennsylvania congressman seeking to help President Donald Trump overturn his 2020 election loss.

The testimony came from former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, and was first reported by Politico.

She told the committee she "saw Meadows incinerate documents after a meeting in his office with Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.)," according to the report.

Meadows' meeting with Perry came in the weeks after the election, per Politico, but it remains unclear which specific documents the then-chief of staff scorched.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-meadows-burn-documents-january-6-committee-investigation-witness-testimony-2022-5

[dchill]

1. To burn the documents was criminal...

...to do it in front of ANYONE ELSE - that's just plain STUPID.

[KS Toronado]

4. I'm glad he's stupid

[dchill]

9. Right? However, if NONE of them were stupid...

...they wouldn't have done the whole thing. Maybe?

[elleng]

2. HOW can a nation survive when so many have no respect for truth and civility?

[NJCher]

3. holy smokes

this is big.

[SoCalDavidS]

8. Add It To The List

EVERY FUCKING WEEK there's something BIG. HUMONGOUS!!! MIND BLOWING!!!

And then, crickets.

I expect the same from this, once the next BIG thing breaks.

[867-5309.]

16. More than once a week

We had an article the other day about an investigation "intensifying". This stuff just seems like click bait at this point.

[PSPS]

11. LOL. Oh, YES!!11! This is the BIG ONE!!11!! This will do it FOR SURE!!11! LOL. They'll all skate.

[NJCher]

21. naive

You're only looking at one aspect of this document burning. Battles in a democracy are waged on a number of fronts, none the least being the media. Media is used to shape public opinion about one's adversaries. PR practitioners will have a heyday with this. In fact, you couldn't ask for a better action.

Document burning looks really bad. It's attention getting and it makes the burner look guilty as hell.

In your post, it appears you're looking at one solution and if you don't get what you want when you want it well, then:

Naive.

[global1]

5. You Can Bet Your Boots If He Burned Documents After A Meeting With Perry That.....

this wasn't the first or last time he burned what he considered sensitive documents.

I wonder who else burned documents?

Tr**p flushed documents down the toilet.

I wonder if someone put the word out to the Repugs and the coup planners and participants to destroy documents?

[SoCalDavidS]

6. Fear Not, AG Garland Will Indict Him Sometime In The Next Century

Or so many here at DU say.

[kairos12]

13. I admire your time line

optimism.

[Mz Pip]

7. Of course he did.

Meadows is a religious crack pot. Earthly laws and ethics don’t matter when you believe you’re on a mission from god.

[BumRushDaShow]

10. "she witnessed her boss burn documents"

18 U.S. Code § 2071 - Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally


(a) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
(b) Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2071

18 U.S. Code § 595 - Interference by administrative employees of Federal, State, or Territorial Governments



Whoever, being a person employed in any administrative position by the United States, or by any department or agency thereof, or by the District of Columbia or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or by any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States, or any political subdivision, municipality, or agency thereof, or agency of such political subdivision or municipality (including any corporation owned or controlled by any State, Territory, or Possession of the United States or by any such political subdivision, municipality, or agency), in connection with any activity which is financed in whole or in part by loans or grants made by the United States, or any department or agency thereof, uses his official authority for the purpose of interfering with, or affecting, the nomination or the election of any candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

This section shall not prohibit or make unlawful any act by any officer or employee of any educational or research institution, establishment, agency, or system which is supported in whole or in part by any state or political subdivision thereof, or by the District of Columbia or by any Territory or Possession of the United States; or by any recognized religious, philanthropic or cultural organization.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/595

[PSPS]

12. Who cares anymore? Good grief. Nothing will suddenly "start happening" now. They'll all skate.

The DOJ isn't doing anything beyond slow walking to the next election when all of this will just "magically disappear."

[kairos12]

14. I'm concerned your analysis is entirely correct.

Garland is getting Muellered.

[Gore1FL]

15. A true gentleman would have flushed them down the toilet. nt

[Stuart G]

17. Isn't this ..."Against The Law"?

[Evolve Dammit]

18. In all seriousness, we have to accept somehow, that nothing will be done. Don't wait for it. If

nothing to date has risen to an indictment, I am fairly certain that our democracy is toast. The system is no longer operable as it was in 1972 when the Nixon administration was actually held accountable.

[Escurumbele]

19. Why is it that this SOB, Meadows, is not already behind bars?

[Turbineguy]

20. If he was an honest man

trump would have never put him in that job.

[BlueIdaho]

22. Maybe he calculated

It was better to take some heat for destroying the documents than being caught with their content intact.

[SWBTATTReg]

23. Just think, if Meadows feels like the stuff he has is worth burning illegally, think of what

rRUMP is burning, that he gave snippets of, portions of, to Meadows prior to their burning everything?

Get multiple witnesses in the room, and convict Meadows for burning illegally, these papers that are subject to federal retention guidelines NOW. No more pussy footing.

[Peregrine Took]

24. As a librarian the, destruction of primary source information is the worst thing ever. n/t