{"id":577855,"date":"2023-06-09T00:50:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T21:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/trump-indictment-talk-puts-spotlight-on-frayed-meadows-relationship\/"},"modified":"2023-06-09T00:50:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T21:50:40","slug":"trump-indictment-talk-puts-spotlight-on-frayed-meadows-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trump-indictment-talk-puts-spotlight-on-frayed-meadows-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"#Trump indictment talk puts spotlight on frayed Meadows relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3d81f22d2f8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3d81f22d2f8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trump-indictment-talk-puts-spotlight-on-frayed-meadows-relationship\/#Related_coverage_from_The_Hill\" >Related coverage from The Hill:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>One of former President Trump\u2019s most loyal allies has found himself in the awkward spot of potentially turning his back on his former boss \u2013 culminating a complicated relationship that dates back to Trump\u2019s early days in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, a key ally to Trump in Congress turned top operative in the White House, reportedly talked to a grand jury as part of special counsel Jack Smith\u2019s investigation into the former president\u2019s handling of classified documents.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>It marks the latest iteration in the political relationship between Trump and the North Carolina Republican, who some say got himself in situations where he bit off more than he could chew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Mark was always in over his head from the Freedom Caucus to the White House.\u00a0 Way too big for his britches,\u201d said a former senior Trump campaign staffer. \u201c[The Department of Justice] doesn\u2019t usually like people with that attitude so not surprised if they went after him. But also, not surprised he\u2019d take a plea deal to avoid prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow he\u2019s just another body on the Trump trail,\u201d the source added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1400\" height=\"787\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/meadowsmark_080520gn7_w.jpg?w=900\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4041427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/meadowsmark_080520gn7_w.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/meadowsmark_080520gn7_w.jpg?resize=160,90 160w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/meadowsmark_080520gn7_w.jpg?resize=300,169 300w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/meadowsmark_080520gn7_w.jpg?resize=768,432 768w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/meadowsmark_080520gn7_w.jpg?resize=1280,720 1280w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/meadowsmark_080520gn7_w.jpg?resize=645,363 645w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/meadowsmark_080520gn7_w.jpg?resize=320,180 320w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/meadowsmark_080520gn7_w.jpg?resize=256,144 256w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/meadowsmark_080520gn7_w.jpg?resize=512,288 512w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/meadowsmark_080520gn7_w.jpg?resize=640,360 640w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/meadowsmark_080520gn7_w.jpg?resize=876,492 876w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/meadowsmark_080520gn7_w.jpg?resize=960,540 960w, https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/meadowsmark_080520gn7_w.jpg?resize=50,28 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 899px) 100vw, 876px\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><em>Then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows addresses reporters after meeting with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to discuss the next coronavirus relief bill on Wednesday, August 5, 2020. (Greg Nash)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meadows was the chief of staff during some of the most tumultuous\u00a0 of Trump times particularly during efforts to overturn the 2020 election and on Jan. 6 when a mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, both of which are part of Smith\u2019s investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most damning testimony before the committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot involved Meadows, whose image took a beating when a former aide detailed that the former congressman spent moments leading up to the violence scrolling on his phone and declining to intervene in key moments. While Meadows\u2019 role in Jan. 6 has been documented by others, he refused to testify before the panel.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Smith, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointed in November, also met with Trump\u2019s legal team this week. It\u2019s left Washington watching for his next move after multiple reports emerged that he was nearing the end of his investigation and that Trump was informed he was the target of an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Questions have been swirling over how much of a role Meadows had in Trump taking classified documents from the White House, which was part of a simmering fight that began with the National Archives discovering that certain presidential documents, including classified ones, had not been turned over as required.\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Related_coverage_from_The_Hill\"><\/span>Related coverage from The Hill:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">A person familiar with the matter said Trump and Meadows have not been especially close for much of the last year, with Meadows in particular staying out of the public eye since the former president left office.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Their frayed relationship was on full display when Meadows published his book, \u201cThe Chief\u2019s Chief,\u201d which detailed that Trump tested positive for COVID-19 days before his first debate against now-President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Trump denied the claim and called it \u201cfake <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>,\u201d which led Meadows to say during an interview with Newsmax in December 2021 that the claim from his own book was \u201cfake news\u201d \u2013 mimicking Trump\u2019s often-used phrase for reports that cast him in a negative light.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One former Trump administration official privy to the whole arc of the Meadows-Trump relationship called the former chief of staff a victim in the situation.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cMark Meadows is, at his core, a southern Christian gentlemen.\u00a0 He is also a true movement conservative.\u00a0 As with any of the principled people who have tried to serve President Trump, eventually your cardinal principles clash with a man who has no basic moorings or beliefs apart from his own caprice or base interests,\u201d the source said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving watched some of the most respected military leaders of a generation fail to square that circle, I\u2019m not surprised at all to see Meadows as its latest victim.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meadows was first elected to Congress in 2012 and chaired the Freedom Caucus, of which he was a founding member, from 2017 to 2019 during Trump\u2019s first two years in the White House. He went from one of Trump\u2019s top allies in Congress to White House chief of staff in March 2020, following the tenures of Mick Mulvaney and John Kelly.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Meadows eventually became the first White House chief of staff since Watergate to be held in contempt of Congress for not testifying on the Jan. 6 riots.<\/p>\n<p>His legacy will largely include his work to reverse the 2020 election results in Georgia in particular. He visited Georgia in December 2020 to observe a post-election audit and he participated in the now-infamous January 2021 call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger when the former president asked him to \u201cfind\u201d 11,780 more votes.<\/p>\n<p>Leading up to the legal troubles with his former boss, Meadows\u2019 loyalty to Trump came back to bite him at times.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The Jan. 6 hearings, which included damaging testimony from his former aide Cassidy Hutchinson who displayed him as a major part of the key moments leading up to the violence of the day.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apple.news\/T7zM9N_S2SDKHQ2PypEf8AQ?subscribe=1\">Sign up for the latest from The Hill here<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ex-White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in testimony in December 2022 that former first lady Melania Trump was angry with Meadows ahead of Jan. 6, accusing him of giving Trump bad advice and giving access to people who may be harmful to the former president.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, former Vice President Pence, a Republican presidential hopeful, said last year he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d in Meadow\u2019s performance at the end of the Trump administration and accused him of not serving the president well.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Now, with a federal indictment of Trump possibly imminent, Meadows\u2019 lawyer George Terwilliger told The New York Times, \u201cMr. Meadows has maintained a commitment to tell the truth where he has a legal obligation to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He wouldn\u2019t comment on whether or not Meadows testified before the grand jury but reports have indicated Meadows is a witness in Smith\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Brett Samuels contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. 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