An exclusive ABC News report citing multiple sources revealed that former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows accepted an immunity deal from Special Counsel Jack Smith in exchange for testifying against his former boss.
Meadows reportedly told a grand jury that he had warned former President Donald Trump about his claims regarding the 2020 presidential election. According to ABC, Meadows testified on at least three separate occasions.
Late on Monday night, Trump launched a scathing attack on Meadows, Smith and other cooperating witnesses on Truth Social. Speculation immediately arose that he may well have violated Judge Chutkan’s (now suspended) gag order.
“I don’t think Mark Meadows would lie about the Rigged and Stollen 2020 Presidential Election merely for getting IMMUNITY against Prosecution (PERSECUTION!),” Trump posted.
“Some people would make that deal, but they are weaklings and cowards, and so bad for the future our Failing Nation. I don’t think that Mark Meadows is one of them, but who really knows? MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
Prosecutors with the Department of Justice are set to argue today for the reimposition of Trump’s gag order.
ABC News has more on Meadow’s cooperation with federal prosecutors in Smith’s election interference case:
The sources said Meadows informed Smith’s team that he repeatedly told Trump in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election that the allegations of significant voting fraud coming to them were baseless, a striking break from Trump’s prolific rhetoric regarding the election.
According to the sources, Meadows also told the federal investigators Trump was being “dishonest” with the public when he first claimed to have won the election only hours after polls closed on Nov. 3, 2020, before final results were in.
“Obviously, we didn’t win,” Meadow’s allegedly told Smith’s team.
During his tenure as one of Trump’s closest aides, the 45th president heaped praise on his “special friend” as “a great chief of staff – as good as it gets.”
ABC News sources said that Smith aimed to unmask Meadows’ conservations with Trump after the election and what Meadows truly thought about the claims, which he repeated in his 2021 memoir:
According to Meadows’ book, the election was “stolen” and “rigged” with help from “allies in the liberal media,” who ignored “actual evidence of fraud, right there in plain sight for anyone to access and analyze.”
But, as described to ABC News, Meadows privately told Smith’s investigators that — to this day — he has yet to see any evidence of fraud that would have kept now-president Joe Biden from the White House, and he told them he agrees with a government assessment at the time that the 2020 presidential election was the most secure election in U.S. history.
Under the deal with Smith’s prosecutors, Meadows cannot be prosecuted for the testimony he gave to the grand jury.
Meanwhile, high inflation and unrest abroad have Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report recently predicting that, if the election were held today, an indicted Donald Trump would beat President Joe Biden.
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