Mark Meadows, President Donald Trump's last chief of staff and a man of his utmost confidence, already understands that one thing is the truths from the book, or from interviews with related media, and another thing is those that are declared under oath. It is not the same in his case. What he sold as true to the public turned out to be a falsehood and, therefore, a possible crime when questions are answered in the privacy of an investigation.
So, every man for himself. Meadows, one of the spreaders of the big lie of electoral theft, has collaborated and given testimony on at least three occasions before special prosecutor Jack Smith, including once in the grand jury, on the matter of the former president's conspiracy to annul the elections. of 2020, a circumstance that led to the tragic day of January 6, 2021, when the Trumpist hordes tried to prevent the certification of Joe Biden as winner.
In view of the evidence against him and once he was promised special impunity, the former chief of staff decided to testify to explain how this plot of the big lie was concocted in the White House, in meetings to which he attended.
According to this information, advanced by ABC, Meadows explained to Smith and his team that he repeatedly told Trump in the weeks following the election that allegations that significant electoral fraud had occurred were completely unfounded, a surprising break. with Trump's prolific rhetoric regarding the ballot verdict.
His close collaborator also explained to federal investigators that his boss was “dishonest” with citizens when he announced that he had won the election just a few hours after the polls closed, on November 3, 2020 and before the results were known. results, at a time when the count had not even finished.
“Obviously we didn't win,” acknowledged the former chief of staff, always from those sources. His testimony tightens the siege on the former president, without him revealing what type of immunity has been granted or promised.
This information only confirms a suspicion that arose last August when the serious accusation against Trump and his six co-conspirators was revealed. The framework of the accusation was based on people from within the president's orbit, such as former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of Justice William Barr or former White House lawyer Pat Cipollone.
Many were surprised that Meadows did not appear on the list of defendants, due to the relevant role attributed to him in the anti-democratic plot. It was then speculated that he could be in the group of collaborators with the investigations, although he was attributed a relevant role and this implied the existence of some pact with the prosecutors, as is now revealed.
Trump called Meadows, one of the closest and most faithful advisors he had in his administration, “a special friend” and “a great chief of staff.”
The way his testimony has been described sheds more light on the evidence that Smith's team gathered to present a series of charges against Trump for his attempt to stay in power illegally by spreading lies about the election result. .
They maintain that Smith was very interested in questioning Meadows, who has refused to participate in any investigation, because he always wanted to know the conversations that Trump had during the final months of his presidency, about what he did on January 6, 2021, and whether the former chief of staff believed some of the allegations he wrote in a book after his leader left the government, a volume in which he promised to “correct the record” on the former president.
In that book there appear a series of statements that contradict his testimony under oath. He stressed in his story that the elections were stolen and manipulated with the help of “allies in the liberal media,” who ignored “the evidence of fraud, which was there in the open for anyone to access and analyze.”
However, according to the aforementioned sources, Meadows acknowledged to Smith that he had not yet seen a single piece of evidence of fraud that would have prevented Joe Biden from taking office. He even stressed that he agreed with the government's assertion that the 2020 elections They were the safest in the history of the country.
But in his statements on those dates and later he helped Trump create the myth of fraud, although he told investigators that in mid-December of that year it was clear to him that nothing irregular appeared. Despite everything, he continued to bully Trump.
