Meadows, other top Trump aides ordered to testify in Jan. 6 probe as judge rejects claims
Source: ABC News
A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump's claims of executive privilege and has ordered Mark Meadows and other former top aides to testify before a federal grand jury investigating Trump's efforts to overturn the election leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.
Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff, was subpoenaed along with the other former aides by Special counsel Jack Smith for testimony and documents related to the probe. Trump's legal team had challenged the subpoenas by asserting executive privilege, which is the right of a president to keep confidential the communications he has with advisers.
In a sealed order last week, Judge Beryl Howell rejected Trump's claim of executive privilege for Meadows and a number of others, including Trump's former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, his former national security adviser Robert O'Brien, former top aide Stephen Miller, and former deputy chief of staff and social media director Dan Scavino, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Former Trump aides Nick Luna and John McEntee, along with former top DHS official Ken Cuccinelli, were also included in the order, the sources said. Trump is likely to appeal the ruling, according to sources briefed on the matter. A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Full headline: Meadows, other top Trump aides ordered to testify in Jan. 6 probe as judge rejects claims of executive privilege
Kyle Cheney had tweeted something earlier this morning about another sealed order that had come out around the time that Corcoran was ordered to testify and they were unsure who/what it referenced. I expect it may have to do with this OP.
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UPDATE: Corcoran has now entered the grand jury space of the courthouse for his anticipated testimony in the Trump documents case
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SIDE NOTE: Yesterday, the same appeals court panel that rejected efforts to block Corcoran's testimony made an identical ruling in another sealed case that we have yet to identify.
It's a stored communication (phone/email) case that Howell decided on March 3.
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9:14 AM · Mar 24, 2023
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Meadows
Stephen Miller
John Ratcliffe
Stephen Miller
Robert O'Brien
Stephen Miller
Dan Scavino
Stephen Miller
Nick Luna
Stephen Miller
John McEntee
Stephen Miller
Ken Cuccinelli
Hope Jack Smith's investigation balloons like Watergate did, except this time the head guy goes down also.
In fact he's all over the place. 
I hate that weasel. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Eichmann
In her 2011 book Eichmann Before Jerusalem, based largely on the Sassen interviews and Eichmann's notes made while in exile, Bettina Stangneth argues instead that Eichmann was an ideologically motivated antisemite and lifelong committed Nazi who intentionally built a persona as a faceless bureaucrat for presentation at the trial.[222] Historians such as Christopher Browning, Deborah Lipstadt, Yaacov Lozowick, and David Cesarani reached a similar conclusion: that Eichmann was not the unthinking bureaucratic functionary that Arendt believed him to be.[223]
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Never forget that Stephen Miller is primarily responsible for trump's policy for brown babies in cages.
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6:42 PM · Jun 9, 2020
although I'm curious what his role might have been for J6 given that he seemed to focus on inflicting as much pain as he could on the domestic policy agenda, which took a lot of work. 
