“Big Damn Deal”: turns out Mark Meadows gave away the game
Now that Mark Meadows has changed his mind and decided to get indicted for criminal contempt instead of continuing to cooperate with the January 6th Committee, the defeatists are busy trying to spin this as a win for him and a loss for the committee. Meadows certainly isn’t winning; he’s going to prison. And now it turns out the committee is in fact winning big when it comes to its interactions with Meadows.
During that brief period where Meadows was cooperating, it turns out it wasn’t some kind of secret double agent trick; he really was cooperating. Legal analyst Elie Honig is now reporting this:
File this under "Big Damn Deal": Meadows has produced documents to the 1/6 Committee about "appointing alternate electors," launching a "direct and collateral attack" on election results, and "options for January 6."
All of this came from the inner sanctum of the White House.
— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) December 8, 2021
Even though Meadows ultimately decided he wanted to go to prison instead of continuing to cooperate, he can’t magically take these documents back from the committee. He’s now given them a roadmap into exactly what was going on, who was involved, and who else can give them additional context.
What’s stunning is how stupidly Mark Meadows has handled this. He’s given up crucial incriminating evidence against the Trump White House, gotten nothing in return, and still managed to get himself rung up for contempt. Meanwhile it’s a major win for the January 6th Committee, which gets to make an example out of Meadows, and gets to move forward with the evidence he provided.
