Andrew Weissmann, a former federal prosecutor who when still in that role served as part of the Russia investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller at the Justice Department, expects a federal criminal case against Mark Meadows.
“Hard to see Meadows not getting charged federally soon. Or pleading and cooperating. But soon,” Weissmann said online.
Weissmann has also predicted federal criminal action against Roger Stone, the longtime Trump ally who it turns out was captured on camera discussing an early version of the sham electors plan, which eventually involved Trump allies in swing states around the country assembling purported slates of electoral votes on Trump’s behalf despite Biden’s wins there. The ploys have already led to criminal charges in two states, including Georgia and Michigan, and in Arizona, the matter remains under criminal investigation. The scheme was also mentioned in the federal indictment of Trump from Special Counsel Jack Smith that concerned the 2020 election.
In Georgia, Meadows was already named in the sweeping indictment of 19 defendants, a list that also includes former President Trump himself. Meadows was the chief of staff in the Trump White House as the Trump administration closed up shop, and he participated in a call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on which Trump clamored for action on the 2020 election results from Georgia. It appears this participation directly underpinned Meadows’s particular allegations of criminal culpability, though he also once visited the site of an audit of mail-in ballot signatures, which could have been perceived as meant to impose pressure for a particular outcome.
There has also recently been reporting from ABC News about alleged insights from Meadows provided under questioning by the current special counsel’s investigators in the examination of Trump that relates to the ex-president having harbored classified documents from his time in office. Meadows reportedly told the team he was unaware of variously sweeping declassification actions that would have undone some of the protections around the documents Trump was eventually found to be harboring, which Trump has expressly claimed were, in fact, declassified.
Hard to see Meadows not getting charged federally soon. Or pleading and cooperating. But soon.
— Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 (@AWeissmann_) August 22, 2023
