Mark Meadows In Contempt of Congress & With No Viable Executive Privilege, It's Indictment Time
Donald Trump's former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows committed the crime of contempt of Congress today by failing to appear on a lawfully issued congressional subpoena. The committee has announced it will move to hold Meadows in contempt and refer him for criminal prosecution.
Although Meadows is trying to claim executive privilege (and there is some caselaw from the Nixon days suggesting a former president might have some lingering executive privilege), this video sets out the three reasons any executive privilege claim by Meadows should be rejected.
Also, the committee reveals a deeply incriminate text from November 6, 2020 - after Trump lost the election - showing that Meadows was all in on the efforts to corruptly overturn the election results. So with nowhere left to go, Meadows decides his best play is . . . to file a frivolous lawsuit against Nancy Pelosi and the House select committee in a transparent attempt to weaponize the courts, delay the matter and run out the clock - a page straight out of Trump's playbook.
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