In a recent filing in federal court that followed testimony given by Trump ally Mark Meadows amid deliberations over whether to transfer proceedings against him that originate with Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to federal court, the local prosecutor called him out.
Meadows is among the 19 defendants criminally charged in the Georgia case from Willis that also names former President Donald Trump and alleges a criminal conspiracy to target the state’s election results from 2020.
Meadows served as chief of staff in the Trump White House as the now former president left power, and his actions amid Trump’s attempts to hold onto that power included joining the discussions about assembling sham electors for Trump from states, including Georgia, where Biden had been victorious. Meadows also showed up to the site of an audit of mail-in ballot signatures in Georgia, but the former issue was a particular point of contention in court, as he claimed he’d not coordinated the efforts in either a campaign or governmental capacity. Meadows was shown a message of his in which he participated with a campaign figure in assembling the set-up.
In the spotlighted message, Meadows was speaking with Jason Miller. After “insisting that he did not play “any role” in the coordination of slates of “fake electors” throughout several states, the defendant was forced to acknowledge under cross-examination that he had in fact given direction to a campaign official in this regard,” the district attorney’s team argued of Meadows in the filing, as relayed by a broadcast on MSNBC.
In the Georgia case, Trump has formally pleaded not guilty, as anticipated. He did so without appearing in court. The former president also recently had his trial scheduled in the federal criminal case that covers substantially similar ground: March 4, just before Super Tuesday, when many delegates will be at stake on the same day in the Republican Party’s presidential primary.
