White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in the Oval Office of the White House April 30, 2020 in Washington, DC.
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The Select Committee investigating the Capitol riots on January 6 recommended the House of Representatives ban former White House chief of staff to President Donald Trump Mark Meadows for contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas.
Bipartisan council, nine members voted unanimously in favor of a report that includes a solution recommended the House of Meadows with disdain and referred him to the Department of Justice for criminal prosecution.
51 pages long contempt report Meadows issued a refusal to fully comply with the subpoena, asking him to present a series of files to the committee and sit down with investigators.
Chairwoman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., flanked by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., Left, and Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speaking during a House Select Committee hearing to The General Committee’s January 6 Inquiry on “House Recommendation Report Cites Mark Randall Meadows on Congress’s disregard for crime” on Monday, December 13, 2021.
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The committee said Meadows delivered thousands of files before reversing course and refusing to cooperate, citing Trump’s assertion that Meadows’ testimony was protected by executive privilege.
“When the filing brings up the questions – as these inevitably happen – you have to come and answer those questions,” selection committee chair Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said ahead of the drop. vote in a public meeting on Monday night.
“And by the time he had to follow the law, step in and testify on those questions, he changed his mind and told us to smash the sand. He didn’t even show up,” Thompson said.
Vice President Liz Cheney, R-Wyo.
She and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., have read a series of panicked messages that the pro-Trump Fox News host, congressional lawmakers and even the president’s stepson have sent to Meadows during the riot.
“Mark, the president needs to tell everyone on Capitol Hill to go home. This is hurting us all. He’s destroying his legacy,” Cheney said, citing a passage by the narrator. Fox show Laura Ingraham.
Instead of appearing scheduled to be impeached last week, Meadows sued the committee and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., asking the court to void two of the panel’s subpoenas .
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