Liz Cheney sure was right about this Mark Meadows thing
After Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows began cooperating with the January 6th Committee, only to break it off shortly thereafter, the doomsday pundits insisted that the committee had blown it, Meadows had played them, and the probe was doomed.
But at the time, vice chair Liz Cheney insisted that the committee had received “exceptionally interesting and important” evidence from Mark Meadows before his flip flop. It’s now obvious that she was telling the truth. Meadows turned over his own text messages, incriminating himself in the process. He turned over the insurrection PowerPoint slide show, incriminating the upper ranks of the Trump White House, and so on.
So much for the pundits who insisted that Mark Meadows was ingeniously playing both sides and had played the hapless January 6th Committee for naive fools. It’s clear that the committee came out the winner of its interactions with Meadows, and that Meadows was flailing around so badly because he knew he was screwed either way.
The committee keeps proving that it can in fact be trusted. When Liz Cheney announced on behalf of the committee that they had indeed obtained crucial evidence from their interactions with Meadows, there was every reason to take that at face value. The doomsday types who insisted that the committee got played by Meadows, and that the committee was just trying to save face by pretending to have gotten valuable evidence from Meadows, were obviously full of it.
If you don’t want to take Liz Cheney at her word, keep in mind that Democrats like Bennie Thompson and Adam Schiff are also playing key roles in this committee, and their messaging has been in lockstep with that of Cheney. It’s more clear than ever that the committee can be trusted, and that it is succeeding. It’s time to discard the increasingly histrionic narratives to the contrary.
