If you're wondering why former Trump WH Chief of Staff Mark Meadows hasn't been indicted yet, even after telling the January 6th Commission to piss off last December and then getting hit with a contempt charge for refusing a subpoena, the answer is he's been cooperating with the Justice Department and yes, he showed up for their subpoena after all.
Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has complied with a subpoena from the Justice Department's investigation into events surrounding January 6, 2021, sources familiar with the matter tell CNN, making him the highest-ranking Trump official known to have responded to a subpoena in the federal investigation.
Meadows turned over the same materials he provided to the House select committee investigating the US Capitol attack, one source said, meeting the obligations of the Justice Department subpoena, which has not been previously reported.
Last year, Meadows turned over thousands of text messages and emails to the House committee, before he stopped cooperating. The texts he handed over between Election Day 2020 and Joe Biden's inauguration, which CNN previously obtained, provided a window into his dealings at the White House, though he withheld hundreds of messages, citing executive privilege.
In addition to Trump's former chief of staff, one of Meadows' top deputies in the White House, Ben Williamson, also recently received a grand jury subpoena, another source familiar with the matter tells CNN. That subpoena was similar to what others in Trump's orbit received. It asked for testimony and records relating to January 6 and efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Williamson previously cooperated with the January 6 committee. He declined to comment to CNN.
Meadows' compliance with the subpoena comes as the Justice Department has ramped up its investigation related to January 6, which now touches nearly every aspect of former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss -- including the fraudulent electors plot, efforts to push baseless election fraud claims and how money flowed to support these various efforts, CNN reported this week.
An attorney for Meadows declined comment. The Justice Department did not respond to CNN requests for comment.
Getting a subpoena from the January 6th Committee is something that Meadows could fight, or delay. Meadows folded on that fight anyway earlier this year. But a subpoena from the Justice Department, with the investigations into Trump well into the multiple grand jury stage and dozens of subpoenas issued for his lackeys?
Meadows knows he can cooperate now or go to prison, and that Trump won't save him even if he could. Turning over all his January 6th evidence to the DoJ directly is pretty huge, which means whatever the DoJ told him was coming was serious enough to make him stop playing games.
We're after the 60 days before the election deadline, meaning indictments won't be going out until after the midterms. But I guarantee you they are coming.
Again, everything that has been made public about the Trump regime's criminality has been done in order to prepare the American public for Trump's indictment, and Meadows fully cooperating and turning over material evidence means we're a lot closer to that happening in mid-November.
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