House committee probing January 6 capital Riot is recommending that Mark Meadows be found in contempt of Congress after Trump’s former chief of staff stopped cooperating with the panel.
The news comes on the same day the panel released a report showing Meadows said the National Guard was on standby to ‘protect pro-Trump people’ in an email on January 5.
Meadows, 62, was a US representative from North Carolina until he was elected as Trump’s fourth and final chief of staff in March 2020.
The House Select Committee on the January 6 attack previously told Meadows in a letter on December 7 that it had ‘no choice but to pursue contempt proceedings’ against him after he stopped cooperating with the panel. . CNN,
Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows could be held in contempt of Congress after a committee investigating Capitol riots voted to proceed with criminal proceedings
Meadows has submitted thousands of pages of documents to the House Select Committee on the January 6 attacks, but he is unwilling to sit with them for a statement.
The committee is investigating the origins of the January 6 riots, in which Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building, in which five people were killed.
Meadows has already given nearly 6,000 pages of documents to the panel, but he has declined to sit for a statement and cited executive privilege as his reason, politician Report.
He has sued House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of the January 6 committee, alleging that the body’s subpoenas are “overly comprehensive and unnecessarily cumbersome” and that the panel has to seek and obtain documents. Lack of legitimate right.
The committee is investigating the January 6 burglary in the US Capitol building that killed five people, including rioters shot at the site by Capitol police.
The breach was perpetrated by Trump supporters, who still claim the 2020 election was stolen from them. The former president urged his supporters to “fight like hell” during a speech earlier that day.
The committee is made up of seven Democrats and only two Republicans, Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who is also the vice president, and Adam Kizinger of Illinois.
Meadows was a congressman before Trump was elected as the fourth and final chief of staff in March 2020. Above, on January 6, Trump urged his supporters to ‘fight like hell’.
In 51 page report Released on Sunday, the committee described a series of messages sent by Meadows to various people.
‘Mr. Meadows sent an email [on January 5] The report told one person about the events of January 6, adding that the National Guard would be there to “protect the pro-Trump people” and that many more would be available on standby.
The committee also identified a text message Meadows sent to a member of Congress in November 2020 ‘regarding attempts to contact state legislators, as Mr Meadows indicates in his text messages,’ quoting, “POTUS Wants to chat with them.”
In the document released on Sunday, the committee outlined the questions it would have asked Meadows if they had cooperated.
“We will ask Mr. Meadows about the text messages exchanged before, during and after the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6 with various individuals, including members of Congress, encouraging Mr. Meadows to facilitate the Text messages are also included. A statement by President Trump on January 6 discouraging violence at the Capitol, including a textual exchange with a media personality who encouraged the president’s statement, asking people to “peacefully leave the Capitol” As asked for, the ending quote, as well as a text sent to one of the president’s family members, indicates that Mr. Meadows, for a statement from President Trump, quoted, “Push hard,” is the end quote, The quote, “Condemn this ***,” is the ending quote, capitalized.’
The full House is expected to hold Meadows in criminal contempt on Tuesday.
According to Congressional Research Service, anyone found guilty of misconduct can be fined up to $100,000 and jailed for up to one year.
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