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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWell, Look Who Just Got Dragged Into Trump's Criminal Nightmare
Mark Meadows just got pulled into former President Donald Trumps legal drama in Georgia.
Meadows, Trumps final White House chief of staff, is being summoned to testify next month in Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis criminal investigation into Trump allies attempts to flip the 2020 election.
Willis also wants to hear from pro-Trump Kraken lawyer Sidney Powell, Meadows contact Army Col. James Phil Waldron, and former Trump campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn, according to court filings released Thursday afternoon.
The attempt to compel testimony from some of Trumps closest advisers is further evidence that Willis probe is looking in every corner of Trumpworld in a strikingly thorough investigation, legal experts said. Willis filing describes Meadows as a material witness to her investigation.
The subpoena [for Meadows] tells us that the DA may be closing in on Trump and other big fish in this scandal, Carl Tobias, a law professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, told VICE News.
Meadows participated in the infamous phone call that Trump held with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in January 2021 in which Trump told Raffensperger he wanted to find enough votes to allow him to carry Georgia. President Joe Biden won Georgia by a wafer-thin margin of 11,779 votes.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/4axabn/mark-meadows-georgia-criminal-investigation
I keep saying it--Fani Willis don't play!
dchill
(38,429 posts)...I really don't think she's bluffing!
calimary
(81,085 posts)PCIntern
(25,466 posts)A clear and convincing win if Rethugs do, or the margin of victory, if it could be described as wafer-thin is ignored and not spoken of.
allegorical oracle
(2,357 posts)Florida by 537 votes and a ballot recount was stopped by the SCOTUS (after Fla's Supreme Court ordered it to continue). So Gore didn't "lose" -- the election was nullified. Often wonder what in Gawd's name DJT would've done if THAT had happened to him.
Meadowoak
(5,532 posts)By 1million votes, but W was already sworn in and about 1 year into his 1st term.
triron
(21,981 posts)Meadowoak
(5,532 posts)To Al Gore by over a million votes. I believe it was the Miami Herald newspaper that finished the count. Bush and Gore were tied at 269 electoral votes. With 270 needed to win.
carpetbagger
(4,390 posts)Meadowoak
(5,532 posts)They found more uncounted votes. At final count, Al Gore had won by roughly 1 million votes.
questionseverything
(9,645 posts)Especially in black precincts, they would fill in the bubble by gores name and then also write in his name on the write in line
The machines didnt record those votes but a full hand count would discover the voters intent
whopis01
(3,490 posts)Florida would gone To Al Gore by over a million votes
There were less than 6 million votes cast in Florida in 2000. No recount was ever going to find that Gore won by over a million in Florida.
OMGWTF
(3,937 posts)that TT beat Hillary with, yet his "win" was a blow-out and Biden's was barely there.
PCIntern
(25,466 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,308 posts)mtngirl47
(987 posts)On 8/17/22. Trump should be scared
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,308 posts)soldierant
(6,784 posts)H2O Man
(73,505 posts)Fani Willis has a background in RICO cases. I think that is important to keep in mind. I know that those attempting to resist testifying are aware of it.
mjvpi
(1,387 posts)DA Willis is my sentimental favorite to scour through the Teflon. A woman of color. Pure Karma.
H2O Man
(73,505 posts)listening to Arlo Guthrie's introduction to "The Pause of Mr. Claus" was a giggle. He talked about "the last guy." In my humble opinion, DA Willis is the last human being that Trump & Co want investigating their effort to overturn the election.
mountain grammy
(26,595 posts)That Santa 🎅. Hes a Commie 🤣🤣🤣
70sEraVet
(3,472 posts)burrowowl
(17,632 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,376 posts)Eyeball_Kid
(7,429 posts)And my guess is that they're writing drafts right now to include most of the Trump White House staff as co-conspirators in the looting of the US government of national security documents.
Oh, yeah. Some of the staffers OBJECTED to Trump's thefts. But they said NOTHING to the DOJ about it. Thus, they were complacent enablers/co-conspirators. They are REQUIRED to report crimes to the DOJ. They took an oath to do so. Yet they sat by while Trump stole documents. They watched him do it, and some even helped him with the thefts.
malaise
(268,638 posts)😀😀
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,234 posts)Stuart G
(38,403 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,376 posts)calimary
(81,085 posts)And Im not talking about the proverbial fat lady.
jmbar2
(4,859 posts)She is doing more to protect democracy than just about anyone else in the US right now.
Traildogbob
(8,670 posts)Justice, thats what. Justice, law and order, and consequences. F**k around, find out!
Lindsey, get off the damn couch, put down the pearls and get your ass in my court. Everything trump touches
.and his prints are all over you. The coat tail ride is taking you where trump is going. Shoulda jumped off.
gab13by13
(21,234 posts)I think Jenna Ellis already testified.
I'm hoping that Fani goes by the rule, if you're not on the ballot you must come on down to the grand jury.
Joinfortmill
(14,376 posts)Stuart G
(38,403 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,105 posts)For the Nazi party, the former republican party, to take over the House so they can bombard the department of justice with God knows what and somehow interfere with Georgia, maybe someone here who knows the law can explain it but thats what theyre waiting for.
Sick.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,429 posts)They likely won't get a House majority. Not now. They're trying to buck the Roe-Dobbs decision, the J6C's business, and the coming indictments-- all of it spells defeat for the GOP.
elleng
(130,699 posts)Warpy
(111,116 posts)to the point I often think he's being set up as the fall guy.
I also think it's not going to work, not this time.
czarjak
(11,245 posts)agingdem
(7,804 posts)all-things election tampering and failed coup...I'm thinking he and the DOJ have had multiple sit-downs re: coup co-conspirator (sedition, insurrection)...but Meadow's foray into election tampering, that's a different kind of felony..
My prediction: it just a matter of time before the DOJ ties Meadows to the Trump's document grab...he was, after all, Trump's chief of staff and more than likely "helped" with the packing up
Evolve Dammit
(16,689 posts)calimary
(81,085 posts)You paid for it. Bigtime.
Better Days Ahoy
(698 posts)That Meadows stole, too. I wonder what foreign g(r)ifts Markie Boy has hidden at home.
Skittles
(153,104 posts)FUCK EVERYONE WHO COLLABORATED WITH THAT TRAITOR