Rachel Maddow reveals how Donald Trump may have just taken Mark Meadows down with him
Earlier today a local Georgia TV news station reported that it had obtained a recording of a second phone call that Donald Trump made to a Georgia state official, demanding that the 2020 election results be altered. Now the recording itself has surfaced, and it looks like Trump may have just taken down Mark Meadows with him.
Rachel Maddow played the most relevant portions of the recording on her MSNBC show tonight. Trump specifically asked the Georgia official to find him more votes, just as he asked the Georgia Secretary of State to do the same on a different call. As Palmer Report pointed out earlier this evening, this represents a clear pattern, and takes away Trump’s ability to make the reasonable doubt argument at his criminal trial that he simply made one phone call and that it was somehow misunderstood. But there’s more.
During the recorded phone call, Trump revealed that his then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows was deeply involved in the attempted election tampering. In fact Trump claimed that it was Meadows’ idea for Trump to call the Georgia official. As Maddow pointed out, this means that Trump has just incriminated Meadows, and it’s now likely that the Fulton County District Attorney will target Meadows as well.
We’ll go even further and point out that this sets up an easy opportunity for the District Attorney to offer Mark Meadows a lenient plea deal in order to get him to flip on Donald Trump.
