Donald Trump’s former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has come under fire yet again — this time by a newspaper in his own home state, after he was reportedly busted for using a seemingly false address to vote in the 2020 election while simultaneously pushing the now ex-president’s unhinged Big Lie regarding voter fraud and a “stolen” election.
The editorial board for The Charlotte Observer effectively chewed the ex-Trump administration staffer up and spit him back out after reports indicated that Meadows voted in 2020 under an address for a mobile home in Scaly Mountain, North Carolina, in possible violation of the law, as it seems Meadows never lived at the residence or even visited there.
“Remember the voter fraud that Republicans were so eager to uncover after the 2020 election? Well, it may have been right under their noses all along,” the paper’s editorial board penned. “Meadows’ wife and kids rented the mobile home and stayed there briefly while visiting the area for a Trump rally, the report says, but there’s no evidence to suggest Meadows ever spent any time there. According to both the current and former owners, who were interviewed by The New Yorker, Meadows has never slept nor received any mail at the property.”
As we’re all aware, Meadows served as one of the biggest proponents of Donald Trump’s unhinged, baseless, and frankly downright incorrect conspiracy theories and claims regarding the 2020 presidential election and his lack of an ability to accept his free and fair loss to Joe Biden. Meadows played a personal hand in assisting Trump with his efforts to have the results of the election overturned, based on the unfounded claims that the 2020 race was wrought with fraud and irregularities that resulted in Donald’s rightful win being stolen from him. Trump and his people spent every waking moment trying to pressure the US Department of Justice into investigating their claims of mail-in fraud and even a completely unhinged theory claiming that Italy used satellites to hack into U.S. voting machines.
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“Why would Meadows register to vote at a mountain property he seems to have never even set foot in? Why would he wage a fight against voter fraud, an enemy that doesn’t actually exist, all while knowing that he committed it himself? And did he genuinely think he could get away with it?” the editorial board fumed. “hose are all questions that Meadows needs to answer, and it’s going to be tough for him to explain. Others have been arrested and even imprisoned for honest mistakes that resulted in illegal voting, including a Black woman from Wake County who voted while on probation in 2016, not knowing it wasn’t allowed.”
“Lying, on the other hand, is hardly an honest mistake,” the board concluded in their firey public flogging of the Trump-era former official. “As a former elected official and top-ranking member of the White House staff, Meadows has no excuse for not knowing the law, and despite his power and influence, he is not above it. As with any instance of potential voter fraud, the North Carolina State Board of Elections should investigate it. And if it’s found that Meadows did fraudulently register for and vote in an election, he ought to bear the consequences of doing so.”
You can read the full editorial piece here.
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