Mark Meadows, who was chief of staff in the Trump White House when January 6 happened and who broadly supported the now former president’s original attempts to stay in power despite losing the 2020 presidential election, has been sued by the publisher for a recent book of his over statements in the volume about that electoral contest.
The issues boil down roughly as follows. Meadows stood by his (unsupported) election claims in the book and apparently represented to the publisher that statements he made within it were based in research. Reportedly, however, Meadows broke with this allegiance to the cause in testimony provided to federal authorities as part of an immunity arrangement, in connection to which he allegedly admitted to the falsity of the claims of widespread election fraud.
The publisher, All Seasons Press, points both to revealed problems in the original text of the book and the follow-up problem of Meadows undercutting the book’s potential sales — and the publisher’s profits — with his reported grand jury testimony.
“Meadows breached the Agreement and Author’s Warranties by either (a) intentionally including in the Book statements he knew were untrue and making misrepresentations to ASP about their truth,” the company said, as relayed by Rolling Stone, “or (b) impairing, preventing or interfering with ASP’s full and exclusive enjoyment of its right to recoup its expenses and earn profits under the Agreement by telling prosecutors and/or a grand jury that his story about President Trump’s stated beliefs about the 2020 Presidential Election were untrue.”
The publisher also pulled the book, and now, they’re seeking financial penalties totaling some $2.95 million. Presumably, this book is the volume that was under development when individuals associated with Meadows and working on a book of his showed up for a get-together with Trump in New Jersey, where the ex-president allegedly directly referenced an originally classified document he still had in his possession and seemed to indicate was still under governmental protection. The incident figured into Trump’s criminal case on classified documents allegations.
