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Mark Meadows Being Investigated for Voter Fraud

Mark Meadows
Won't Face
Voter Fraud
Charges

UPDATED

Dec 31, 2022 7:31 AM CST

Mark Meadows Won't Face Voter Fraud Charges

North Carolina officials questioned his absentee ballot in the 2020 election

(Newser) - Mark Meadows won't face any legal trouble for the absentee ballot he cast in the 2020 election. Meadows, then serving as former President Trump's chief of staff, cast that absentee ballot by mail to vote in the battleground state of North Carolina, reports the AP . Meadows listed as...

Pressure From Trump Allies Left Witness 'Genuinely Scared'

Cassidy Hutchinson
Read Up on Watergate,
Then Told the Truth

Dec 23, 2022 7:11 AM CST

Cassidy Hutchinson Read Up on Watergate, Then Told the Truth

Transcript of Cassidy Hutchinson's interviews with Jan. 6 panel is out

(Newser) - Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson told the House Select Committee that a lawyer connected to former President Trump tried to influence her testimony around Jan. 6 to the point that she felt she "had Trump looking over my shoulder." Hutchinson delivered bombshell testimony , describing Trump as lunging...

Judge Orders Meadows to
Testify in Georgia Election Case

Oct 26, 2022 1:06 PM CDT

Judge Orders Meadows to Testify in Georgia Election Case

Former WH chief of staff is a 'necessary and material witness,' court filing states

(Newser) - A judge on Wednesday ordered former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify before a special grand jury that's investigating whether then-President Trump and his allies illegally tried to influence the state's 2020 election. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened the investigation early last year...

Gaetz Wanted
a Pardon in
Sex Trafficking
Case: Witness

Sep 17, 2022 2:55 PM CDT

Gaetz Wanted a Pardon in Sex Trafficking Case: Witness

Panel had heard testimony that pardon requests were over efforts to overturn election

(Newser) - Rep. Matt Gaetz, who's under federal investigation on suspicion of sex trafficking, told former President Donald Trump's chief of staff that a preemptive pardon in the case "would be great," a witness told a House committee. Johnny McEntee, a White House aide during Trump's term,...

Sources: Mark
Meadows Played
Ball With DOJ
on Subpoena

Sep 15, 2022 8:50 AM CDT

Sources: Mark Meadows Played Ball With DOJ on Subpoena

Ex-chief of staff for Trump's WH reportedly complied with agency's writ regarding Jan. 6 riot

(Newser) - In June, the Department of Justice announced it was declining to charge Mark Meadows, former President Trump's chief of staff in the White House, with contempt after Meadows stopped cooperating with the House select committee looking into the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol. Now, a new development:...

Allegations of Witness
Tampering Gain Traction

the rundown

Jul 1, 2022 1:25 PM CDT

Allegations of Witness Tampering Gain Traction

Reports say Trump allies gave tacit warnings to Cassidy Hutchinson in particular

(Newser) - Near the end of the last Jan. 6 hearing, Rep. Liz Cheney accused allies of former President Trump of attempting to intimidate witnesses, and she displayed two messages that she says make her case, per the Hill . Cheney didn't name any names, but reports now say that Cassidy Hutchinson—...

Witness: Trump Unconcerned Protesters Were Armed

Jan. 6 Hearing: 'I Don't ...
Care That They Have Weapons'

Jun 28, 2022 1:10 PM CDT

Jan. 6 Hearing: 'I Don't ... Care That They Have Weapons'

Witness says Trump objected to metal detectors for his supporters on Jan. 6

(Newser) - Witness Cassidy Hutchinson told the Jan. 6 panel Tuesday that former President Trump and chief of staff Mark Meadows—her boss—were informed that protesters gathering in DC on Jan. 6, 2021, were armed. However, both appeared to be unconcerned about it, she said. In fact, she said Trump was...

Witness: Meadows Told Me
Jan. 6 May 'Get Real, Real Bad'

Jun 28, 2022 12:27 PM CDT

Witness: Meadows Told Me Jan. 6 May 'Get Real, Real Bad'

Cassidy Hutchinson begins her testimony

(Newser) - The Jan. 6 House panel has begun its surprise hearing—one that was abruptly scheduled only on Monday—with star witness Cassidy Hutchinson , who served as a top aide to Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows, per CNN . The 25-year-old had access to the former president's inner circle and...

Witness at Surprise
Jan. 6 Hearing Is Revealed

Jun 28, 2022 6:52 AM CDT

Witness at Surprise Jan. 6 Hearing Is Revealed

Cassidy Hutchinson, former aide to Mark Meadows, will testify

(Newser) - A onetime top aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows will testify in Tuesday's surprise Jan. 6 hearing , the sixth this month, multiple outlets are reporting. Cassidy Hutchinson, who attended meetings between Meadows and House Republicans who worked to overturn the 2020 election, will testify publicly...

DOJ: We Won't Be Prosecuting
Meadows, Scavino

Jun 4, 2022 7:45 AM CDT

DOJ: We Won't Be Prosecuting Meadows, Scavino

Justice Department declines contempt charges for Trump's former chief of staff, social media director

(Newser) - On Friday, former Trump aide Peter Navarro was indicted on contempt charges for refusing to answer subpoenas by a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Later that day, two others in Trump's circle avoided the same fate—two much more central figures regarding the former president. Politico...

In New Texts Between Hannity
and Mark Meadows, a Shift

Apr 30, 2022 8:15 AM CDT

In New Texts Between Hannity and Mark Meadows, a Shift

Fox host went from 'staunch supporter' of election lies to warning against 'fing lunatics,' per CNN

(Newser) - CNN has more texts from Mark Meadows , this time dozens of them between the former White House chief of staff and Fox News host Sean Hannity. The two exchanged more than 80 messages between Election Day 2020 and President Biden's inauguration, which the news outlet says show "...

Greene's Texts
to Meadows
Show Quick
Shift on Riot

Apr 26, 2022 10:35 AM CDT

Greene's Texts to Meadows Show Quick Shift on Riot

As it began, she asked for Trump to calm rioters; soon, she put blame on antifa infiltrators

(Newser) - Texts to and from Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows on the day of the Capitol riot and, more generally, in the aftermath of the 2020 election have been the subject of many stories of late. But CNN is now unveiling a mother lode—a total of 2,319 texts...

Panel Tells Judge It Has
New Evidence on Meadows

Apr 23, 2022 12:10 PM CDT

Panel Tells Judge It Has New Evidence on Meadows

Jan. 6 committee asks court to force testimony of Trump's chief of staff

(Newser) - The House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol last year has asked a federal judge to compel the testimony of Mark Meadows, White House chief of staff at the time. The Jan. 6 panel already subpoenaed Meadows, and he turned over certain documents. But he's refused to do...

Mark Meadows
Was Registered
to Vote in Three
States

Apr 22, 2022 4:39 PM CDT

Mark Meadows Was Registered to Vote in Three States

'Washington Post' adds South Carolina to list of Virginia and North Carolina

(Newser) - Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows has made headlines in recent weeks after it was revealed he was registered to vote in two different states , Virginia and North Carolina. Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post's Fact Checker blog looked into all this and concluded the story isn't...

NC County Strikes
Mark Meadows
From Its Voter List

Apr 13, 2022 4:57 PM CDT

NC County Strikes Mark Meadows From Its Voter List

Records show Trump's former chief of staff was registered to vote in 2 states

(Newser) - An elections board in a North Carolina county has removed Mark Meadows, former chief of staff to President Trump, from its list of registered voters after documents showed he lived in Virginia and voted in the 2021 election in that state. Questions arose about Meadows last month , when North Carolina...

Virginia Thomas
Texted Meadows
to Fight Election

Mar 24, 2022 6:55 PM CDT

Virginia Thomas Texted Meadows to Fight Election

Messages given to House panel show exchanges about overturning 2020 results

(Newser) - "This is a fight of good versus evil," Virginia Thomas texted then-President Trump's chief of staff in pushing him to fight the 2020 election of President Biden. "Do not grow weary in well doing," she told Mark Meadows, assuring him Biden was "attempting the...

Giuliani
May Not
Go the Route
of Steve Bannon

Feb 13, 2022 8:20 AM CST

Giuliani May Not Go the Route of Steve Bannon

'New York Times' reports he's in talks with House panel to testify about the Capitol riot

(Newser) - Trump allies Steve Bannon and Mark Meadows have defied the House panel investigating the Capitol riot to the extent that they now face the possibility of criminal charges. Rudy Giuliani may go a different route. The New York Times reports that Trump's longtime attorney is in negotiations to testify...

'Need to End
This Call': More
Mark Meadows
Texts Revealed

Dec 15, 2021 12:28 AM CST

'Need to End This Call': More Mark Meadows Texts Revealed

As House votes to recommend DoJ charge him with criminal contempt

(Newser) - The House of Representatives on Tuesday night voted 222-208 to recommend that Mark Meadows be held in contempt of Congress. Two Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger (both of whom sit on the select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack) voted with Democrats, CNN reports. The charges will be...

Meadows: My Texts Were
'Selectively Leaked'

the rundown

Dec 14, 2021 2:02 PM CST

Meadows: My Texts Were 'Selectively Leaked'

He accuses House panel of 'weaponizing' them as fallout continues over Jan. 6 development

(Newser) - The fallout continues over Monday night's surprise development in the investigation of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. GOP Rep. Liz Cheney read texts that were sent by Donald Trump Jr. and three Fox News hosts to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows as the riot was...

Fox Host's
Jan. 6 Text to
Meadows: 'This
Is Hurting All of Us'

Dec 14, 2021 6:23 AM CST

Fox Host's Jan. 6 Text to Meadows: 'This Is Hurting All of Us'

Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, Brian Kilmeade all frantically messaged Trump's then-chief of staff

(Newser) - On Monday evening, a House panel probing what happened during the Capitol riot voted unanimously to recommend Mark Meadows, the chief of staff for former President Trump, be held in contempt of Congress. Among the evidence read aloud before the vote were a series of text messages sent to Meadows...