Is there any reasons why Mark Meadows is being allowed to flip off the Jan 6th committee? Why yes...
Yes there are... It seems this comes up almost every day and I (and a number of others) have laid out the different reason why Mark Meadows has not yet been gone after for defying the Jan 6th committee. I've yet to see any of it rebutted so... Let us put up a recap. If you can rebut it, please do so... If not, I can just put a link to it and save myself from retyping it every time.
1- The Jan 6th committee has already gotten what they need from Meadows. Back in November, Meadows cooperated with the committee, handing over thousands of valuable documents. I suspect he had some aides do it and when he realized how damning they were he put a stop to it. Regardless, he will not be handing over anymore and even if he testified, he would take the 5th. There simply is not anymore to be gained from it.
2 - Contempt is a minor charge compared to what he faces:
MARK MEADOWS
In a number of posts, I have argued that DOJ would be better off treating the January 6 contempt referral as, instead, a referral into obstruction of justice for the way Mark Meadows withheld or deleted evidence pertaining to the coup attempt.
I can’t prove that has happened.
What is certain, however, is that Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco confirmed that DOJ is investigating the fake electors.
“We’ve received those referrals. Our prosecutors are looking at those and I can’t say anything more on ongoing investigations,” Monaco said in an exclusive interview.
And the January 6 contempt referral made clear that communications in Meadows possession show that he was at the center of that effort.
Mr. Meadows received text messages and emails regarding apparent efforts to encourage Republican legislators in certain States to send alternate slates of electors to Congress, a plan which one Member of Congress acknowledged was ‘‘highly controversial’’ and to which Mr. Meadows responded, ‘‘I love it.’’ Mr. Meadows responded to a similar message by saying ‘‘[w]e are’’ and another such message by saying ‘‘Yes. Have a team on it.’’34
34Documents on file with the Select Committee (Meadows production).
Meadows has been frantically trying to ensure whichever of these communications occurred on his personal accounts get shared with the Archives. Which means DOJ now knows they can learn details of the fake elector conspiracy by obtaining those records from the Archives.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/02/08/the-eight-trump-associates-whom-doj-is-investigating/
That link has all the cites needed, the whole thing should be read and digested, it is good information.
3 - Another reason not to go after him for contempt right now:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2022/02/07/why-to-delay-a-mark-meadows-indictment-bannon-is-using-his-contempt-prosecution-to-monitor-the-ongoing-january-6-investigation/
Going after a big fish for small fry shit when it could be tacked on later makes far more sense than instant gratification.
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