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BumRushDaShow

(129,522 posts)
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 05:41 PM Jun 2023

Mark Meadows Testified to Grand Jury in Special Counsel Investigation of Trump

Source: New York Times

Mark Meadows, the final White House chief of staff under President Donald J. Trump and a potentially key figure in inquiries related to Mr. Trump, has testified before a federal grand jury hearing evidence in the investigations being led by the special counsel's office, according to two people briefed on the matter.

Mr. Meadows is a figure in both of the two distinct lines of inquiry being pursued by the special counsel appointed to oversee the Justice Department's scrutiny of Mr. Trump, Jack Smith.

One inquiry is focused on Mr. Trump's efforts to cling to power after losing the 2020 election, culminating in the attack by a pro-Trump mob on the Capitol during congressional certification of the Electoral College results on Jan. 6, 2021. The other is an investigation into Mr. Trump's handling of hundreds of classified documents after he left office and whether he obstructed efforts to retrieve them. It is not clear precisely when Mr. Meadows testified or if investigators questioned him about one or both of the cases.

For months, people in Mr. Trump's orbit have been puzzled by and wary about the low profile kept by Mr. Meadows in the investigations. As reports surfaced of one witness after another going into the grand jury or to be interviewed by federal investigators, Mr. Meadows has kept largely out of sight, and some of Mr. Trump's advisers believe he could be a significant witness in the inquiries.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/us/politics/mark-meadows-testified-trump-grand-jury.html



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Nicole just talking about this and I ran to grab it.
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Mark Meadows Testified to Grand Jury in Special Counsel Investigation of Trump (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jun 2023 OP
Is that officially the last rat on this sinking ship? tinrobot Jun 2023 #1
He's probably the most important one outside of the family members BumRushDaShow Jun 2023 #3
Hope we hear more about when. But he should have spoken to all four impaneled grand juries. ancianita Jun 2023 #2
Just watching it on Nicole's show. I always have to smile when Mike Schmidt vsrazdem Jun 2023 #4
What was funny in that situation BumRushDaShow Jun 2023 #5
I just smile because she is interviewing her husband. its different than Morning joe vsrazdem Jun 2023 #14
There have been several "power couples" on teevee BumRushDaShow Jun 2023 #15
Yes, but they don't interview each other. vsrazdem Jun 2023 #16
Matalin and Carville most definitely did BumRushDaShow Jun 2023 #19
I wonder if they talk about this stuff at home and if Nicolle knows what he's working on oregonjen Jun 2023 #6
If Meadows has flipped, then things will be getting fun LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2023 #7
Joyce Vance thinks that Meadows is cooperating LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2023 #8
This is another big nail in Trump's coffin. gab13by13 Jun 2023 #9
We need some music to go with this news. Botany Jun 2023 #10
If he didn't take the fifth, then surely he has flipped Fiendish Thingy Jun 2023 #11
So much info is coming out now, Deminpenn Jun 2023 #12
We had a more recent example BumRushDaShow Jun 2023 #13
The stooges - sorry I meant the stoolies - are singing sweet as Pavarotti odiometus Jun 2023 #17
Mark Meadows testified before grand jury in special counsel's Trump investigation, sources say LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2023 #18
Exclusive video of former Trump administration officials en route to DOJ LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2023 #20

BumRushDaShow

(129,522 posts)
3. He's probably the most important one outside of the family members
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 05:54 PM
Jun 2023

(given that Pence, although the VP, was probably kept out of the close circle)

ancianita

(36,137 posts)
2. Hope we hear more about when. But he should have spoken to all four impaneled grand juries.
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 05:48 PM
Jun 2023

And for that matter, about the obstructions evidence reported in the Mueller Report! ALL the things!

vsrazdem

(2,177 posts)
4. Just watching it on Nicole's show. I always have to smile when Mike Schmidt
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 05:55 PM
Jun 2023

is on because ever since I found out they got married, I find it amusing for her to be interviewing her husband.

vsrazdem

(2,177 posts)
14. I just smile because she is interviewing her husband. its different than Morning joe
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 08:39 PM
Jun 2023

where they are both hosting. I just think its cute.

BumRushDaShow

(129,522 posts)
15. There have been several "power couples" on teevee
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 08:54 PM
Jun 2023

like these two oddballs -



Or the Conways (back before the breakup)...

BumRushDaShow

(129,522 posts)
19. Matalin and Carville most definitely did
Wed Jun 7, 2023, 05:00 AM
Jun 2023

Matalin always had some kind of "show" and in fact, had a radio show in the '90s including during the 1992 election of Clinton when Carville was working on the Clinton campaign as a strategist. So he was an interview subject (which is how they had supposedly met, eventually dated and then married), and those show appearances continued during the administration and later for the 1996 election (when they had already been married).



I remember CSPAN used to simulcast some political radio talk shows during congressional lulls and would set up cameras in the radio studios. Her show was on one of those broadcasts along with people like Imus and Joe Madison (who I regularly listen to and back in the mid-2000s when they simulcast him, I discovered he was on the-then XM satellite radio which I subbed to, and which later merged with Sirius to be SiriusXM).

She was also at CNN and eventually he came on there... and she hosted multiple shows where he represented "the other side".

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/james-carville-mary-matalin-at-416338/

oregonjen

(3,341 posts)
6. I wonder if they talk about this stuff at home and if Nicolle knows what he's working on
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 06:05 PM
Jun 2023

Breaking news like this, does she have a heads up?

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,580 posts)
7. If Meadows has flipped, then things will be getting fun
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 06:09 PM
Jun 2023

This is going to be interesting


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Mark Meadows, the final White House chief of staff under President Donald J. Trump and a potentially key figure in inquiries related to Mr. Trump, has testified before a federal grand jury hearing evidence in the investigations being led by the special counsel’s office, according to two people briefed on the matter.....

Mr. Meadows was around for pivotal moments leading up to and after the 2020 election, as Mr. Trump plotted to try to stay in office and thwart Joseph R. Biden Jr. from being sworn in to succeed him. Some of them were described in hundreds of text messages that Mr. Meadows turned over to the House select committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack at the Capitol before he decided to stop cooperating. Those texts served as a road map for House investigators.

But Mr. Meadows also has insight into efforts by the National Archives to retrieve roughly two dozen boxes of presidential material that officials had been told Mr. Trump took with him when he left the White House in January 2021. Mr. Meadows was one of Mr. Trump’s representatives to the archives, and he had some role in trying to discuss the matter with Mr. Trump, according to two people briefed on the matter.

But Mr. Meadows also has insight into efforts by the National Archives to retrieve roughly two dozen boxes of presidential material that officials had been told Mr. Trump took with him when he left the White House in January 2021. Mr. Meadows was one of Mr. Trump’s representatives to the archives, and he had some role in trying to discuss the matter with Mr. Trump, according to two people briefed on the matter.

gab13by13

(21,408 posts)
9. This is another big nail in Trump's coffin.
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 06:28 PM
Jun 2023

Meadows was involved in the J6 crimes, he was the go between Trump and the Willard Hotel.

Meadows took over for Derek Lyons who was Trump's White House Office of the Staff Secretary who is in charge of documents that go to and from Trump. Lyons quit before Trump left office.

Meadows gives first hand testimony.

Botany

(70,588 posts)
10. We need some music to go with this news.
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 06:47 PM
Jun 2023


Now does this have to do w/J-6 or the documents @ merde a logo or the grifting of the MAGA dumb asses
to help stop the steal?

Fiendish Thingy

(15,657 posts)
11. If he didn't take the fifth, then surely he has flipped
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 06:50 PM
Jun 2023

And taken a plea deal.

Didn’t we just hear recently that Meadows has been meeting behind the scenes with big GOP donors and influencers to make plans with them for their fascist minority rule agenda?

Deminpenn

(15,290 posts)
12. So much info is coming out now,
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 07:11 PM
Jun 2023

to me this has the same feel as the end of the Watergate investigation did.

BumRushDaShow

(129,522 posts)
13. We had a more recent example
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 08:08 PM
Jun 2023

and that was just before Alvin Bragg's indictments, that included no scheduled grand jury meeting for a few weeks and their supposed moving on to some other subject, as well as 45's rage-tweeting over a weekend about him being scheduled to be "arrested" a following Tuesday (where it didn't happen until a few weeks later), etc.

odiometus

(37 posts)
17. The stooges - sorry I meant the stoolies - are singing sweet as Pavarotti
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 09:49 PM
Jun 2023

Their suitcases of trump bucks turned out to be just another savage grift. Bummed 'em out bigtime, yet they still can't get the taste of trump's shoe polish out of their big mouths. Markie Mark Meadows, Mike Necktie Penice, et al -- canaries in their own cage.

Oh and bear in mind, when all the criminal crap (that the rats admit to) comes out, Americans of conscience might ask themselves, Why didn't those fellow true patriots sing long ago, serve their country's best ideals, remember the Oath of Office they took...and just fucking man up.

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,580 posts)
18. Mark Meadows testified before grand jury in special counsel's Trump investigation, sources say
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 09:57 PM
Jun 2023

ABC is reporting that Meadows testified before both grand juries



https://abc7ny.com/mark-meadows-testifies-donald-trump-grand-jury/13351793/

Former President Donald Trump's former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows testified before a federal grand jury hearing evidence in the special counsel's investigations into former President Trump, ABC News sources said.

Sources tell ABC News that Meadows answered questions on both Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election and Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents.

It was not immediately clear exactly when Meadows testified.

Meadows did not immediately respond to ABC's request for comment.
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