What is Mark Meadows up to? Well, according to CNN, he's behind the scenes, coaching right-wing extremist congress members on the debt ceiling negotiations. But there's nothing but radio silence from Trump's former chief of staff, leading to a lot of speculation. Via CNN:
The silence from Meadows has irked lawyers representing other defendants aligned with Trump who have been more open, according to several sources familiar with the Trump-aligned legal teams. In particular, they point to a $900,000 payment Trump’s Save America political action committee paid to the firm representing Meadows, McGuireWoods, at the end of last year.
“We’ve all heard the same rumors,” one Trump adviser told CNN. “No one really knows what he’s doing though.”
The Justice Department decided not to charge Meadows with a crime for refusing to testify before the House January 6 committee. In its final report last year, the January 6 House select committee said that Meadows appeared to be one of several participants in a criminal conspiracy as part of Trump’s attempt to delay and overturn the results of the 2020 election. The report paints Meadows as an integral part of that effort, as documented by the more than 2,000 text messages Meadows turned over to the committee before he stopped cooperating.
Meadows was also the key point of contact for dozens of people trying to get through to the president as the attack was unfolding, and the special counsel’s investigation has been trying to comb over many of those interactions.
A lawyer for Meadows, of course, declined to comment.
