Tag Archives: Mark Meadows

Reuters reports: Mark Meadows, a former aide to Donald Trump who was charged in Georgia with trying to overturn the former U.S. president’s 2020 election loss, has appealed a judge’s ruling denying his bid to move the case to federal court, a court filing showed on Monday. U.S. District Judge Steve Jones on Friday denied a bid by Meadows to …

Politico reports: The prosecution of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows for attempting to overturn the 2020 election will remain in state court, a federal judge ruled Friday as he turned down Meadows’ bid to move the case to federal court. The decision, which Meadows is likely to appeal, is a victory for Fulton County District Attorney Fani …

USA Today reports: Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff, pleaded not guilty in a court filing Tuesday to Georgia racketeering charges alleging he tried to help Trump steal the 2020 election. Meadows and 18 co-defendants were indicted in Fulton County on Aug. 14 on a combined 41 charges. By entering a plea through a court filing, he …

The New York Times reports: Five defendants have already sought to move the state case to federal court, citing their ties to the federal government. The first one to file — Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s chief of staff during the 2020 election — will make the argument for removal on Monday, in a hearing before a federal judge in Atlanta. …

The Daily Beast reports: Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, surrendered to authorities in Georgia on Thursday on allegations he—along with the former president and 17 others—schemed to keep Trump in power after losing the 2020 election. Along with the onetime Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, Meadows had begged for an urgent delay to the deadline for his …

CNBC reports: Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’ bond was set at $100,000 on Thursday in the Georgia criminal case accusing ex-President Donald Trump and his allies of illegally trying to overturn the state’s 2020 election results. Meadows was charged with racketeering and soliciting a violation of an oath by a public officer. Meadows is seeking to move …

Forbes reports: A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a bid from former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows to delay his imminent arrest in Fulton County, Georgia, after Meadows and several other Trump allies-turned-defendants pushed for a federal trial in a broad Georgia election interference case that ensnared former President Donald Trump. Meadows’ attorney, John Moran, had requested an emergency …

From a motion filed this morning by Meadows’ lawyers: District Attorney Fani Willis has made clear that she intends to arrest Mr. Meadows before this Court’s Monday hearing and has rejected out of hand a reasonable request to defer one business day until after this Court’s hearing. Absent this Court’s intervention, Mr. Meadows will be denied the protection from arrest …

Mediaite reports: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis denied a request from former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to delay his arrest, in a terse but polite letter to Meadows attorney John Moran. While a parade of those defendants have begun showing up to surrender for arrest, Meadows and his attorney asked for more time — a request that …

“I don’t think any of us relish witnessing what’s happening with these people that we worked with. I think it’s fair to say that, you know, Mark was a ringleader of much of the events that happened around January 6th. He was somebody who, the president sought to find additional attorneys who gave advice different than the White House counsel, …

The Daily Beast reports: Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has asked a federal court to intervene in moving his deadline to surrender in the Georgia election RICO indictment. Jeffrey Clark, a former Justice Department official who is one of 18 co-defendants indicted alongside Donald Trump in a racketeering case in Georgia, also asked a judge Tuesday to …

The New York Times reports: Mr. Meadows — Mr. Trump’s final White House chief of staff — initially declined to answer certain questions, sticking to his former boss’s position that they were shielded by executive privilege. But when prosecutors working for the special counsel, Jack Smith, challenged Mr. Trump’s executive privilege claims before a judge, Mr. Meadows pivoted. Even though …

CNN reports: Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows has asked a federal court to order all charges against him brought by Fulton County, Georgia, prosecutors last week to be dismissed, since he says the charges relate to his then-role in the federal government. In a weekend filing, Meadows argues he should have immunity from the state’s 2020 election interference …

ABC News reports: Appearing to contradict former President Donald Trump’s primary public defense in the classified documents case, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has told special counsel Jack Smith’s investigators that he could not recall Trump ever ordering, or even discussing, declassifying broad sets of classified materials before leaving the White House, nor was he aware of …

ABC News reports: Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows officially filed Tuesday to move the case brought against him by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis into federal court, just a day after he was indicted along with former President Donald Trump and 17 others on charges of attempting to overturn Trump’s election loss in the state. The …

Mediaite reports: Many have speculated that Mark Meadows has cooperated with prosecutors, with some pointing to the fact that Meadows – who was a key figure in Trump’s inner circle after the election – is largely absent from the indictment. Appearing on Monday’s AC360 on CNN, Christie was asked if he thinks Meadows will be called to testify as a …

Rolling Stone reports: Earlier this year, Donald Trump sent some of his lawyers and political advisers on a “small fact-finding mission,” as a person with knowledge of the matter describes it to Rolling Stone. The former president wanted to know, according to that source and another person close to Trump: “What is Mark doing?” Trump was referring to his former …

The New York Times reports: Mark Meadows, the final White House chief of staff under President Donald J. Trump and a potentially key figure in inquiries related to Mr. Trump, has testified before a federal grand jury hearing evidence in the investigations being led by the special counsel’s office, according to two people briefed on the matter. Mr. Meadows is …

The Hill reports: The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Department of Justice Tuesday in ordering testimony from former chief of staff Mark Meadows and other top Trump White House staffers in DOJ’s Jan. 6 investigation. Trump had appealed a sealed decision from then-D.C. District Court Judge Beryl Howell last week that rejected his claims of executive privilege …

The Washington Examiner reports: Former President Donald Trump filed an appeal Tuesday to block grand jury testimony from several former White House advisers, including Mark Meadows, for an investigation into 2020 general election subversion efforts. U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell, whose tenure recently ended in the District of Columbia Court, denied Trump’s bid earlier this month to thwart efforts …