We’re already well aware, unfortunately, that a few of Trump’s most key insiders were able to successfully avoid Contempt of Congress charges yesterday, after staunch MAGA loyalist Peter Navarro wasn’t so lucky. Among those to dodge the proverbial guillotine for another day was Donald Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows — despite the fact that, like Navarro, Meadows has vehemently and blatantly refused to comply with the subpoena issued against him by the January 6th House Select Committee that is currently investigating the infamous, deadly 2021 Capitol attack.
While it’s infuriating, it didn’t exactly come as a huge surprise to most people.
However, most people don’t seem to be aware of the sworn testimony that was given to the House Panel by multiple witnesses, accusing the now ex-president’s then-Chief of Staff of quite literally burning documents pertaining to a meeting about overturning the 2020 election just a handful of weeks after Trump’s humiliating November loss, and before his supporters would go on to violently storm the Capitol building with the whole of Congress inside. People also seemed to miss the fact that the Department of Justice came to the decision to let Meadows off despite the fact that the January 6th House Committee had officially recommended that the former Trump official be charged with contempt after they tried to negotiate with Meadows for months to no avail.
The former Trump Chief of Staff did turn over thousands of text messages and other communications that took place between himself and various members of Congress during and after the January 6th insurrection as part of those negotiations with the Panel. Those text messages were found to show countless Republican lawmakers and officials begging Meadows to step in and do something about the ongoing breach of the US Capitol building.
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Politico has reported that one former Meadows subordinate testified before the Committee and claimed to have witnessed the then-Chief of Staff burning documents directly following a meeting he had with Rep. Scott Perry in the weeks directly after the 2020 presidential election. Cassidy Hutchinson, who also worked under Mark Meadows, also testified to witnessing her now-former boss incinerate documents on the heels of the same meeting with Perry.
As it stands, the contents of the alleged burned documents and whether or not they were legally subject to preservation remains unclear.
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