House select committee considers holding Trump chief of staff Meadows in contempt
It’s been over one month since the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 subpoenaed former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, former Pentagon Chief of Staff Kash Patel, and Stephen Bannon. They were given two weeks to submit documents and were required to be deposed one week later. Meadows and Patel got short postponements and Bannon got a contempt of Congress charge.
Meadows is asking for the same by continuing to delay and obstruct. According to multiple sources to CNN, the committee is considering giving him a new deadline to comply with the subpoena and holding him in criminal contempt if he does not. “Our patience isn’t unlimited, and engagement needs to become cooperation very soon,” one of the sources told CNN. “As we’ve already made clear, anyone who tries to stonewall our effort will face the consequences.”
Chair of the committee, Rep. Bennie Thompson, told CNN that they are not at the point yet where they can take Meadows to court, but “If and when the staff says to us it’s not going anywhere, there won’t be any hesitation on the part of the committee to make the referrals.” As opposed to Bannon, the complication with Meadows is that as the former chief of staff, Meadows can claim at least a degree of protection under executive privilege.
In addition to wanting to know what Meadows was doing and what was happening in the White House in the lead-up to Jan. 6 and that day itself, the committee wants to know his role in attempting to overturn the election—with his subpoena noting that he had communicated with “the highest officials at the Department of Justice requesting investigations into election fraud matters in several states.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/10/28/2060770/-House-select-committee-considers-holding-Trump-chief-of-staff-Meadows-in-contempt
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