Turns out Mark Meadows gave the January 6th Committee incriminating evidence against HIMSELF
Earlier this week we all learned that the January 6th Committee has text messages that appear to incriminate Mark Meadows in relation to the Capitol attack. The question was how the committee obtained these messages. Some speculated that they were obtained by subpoenaing the carrier, but now we’re getting a different story.
It turns out Mark Meadows was the one who gave his own incriminating text messages to the committee before he decided to stop cooperating, according to CNN. This tells us a few things. First, Meadows really was legitimately cooperating with the committee, and planning to go all the way with it, before backing out. It’s one thing to give up evidence against others during a brief cooperation period. It’s another thing to give up evidence against yourself. This means you don’t care that you’re making it easier for prosecutors to take you down, because you intend to get off the hook by flipping on everyone anyway.
Second, this serves to underscore just how stunningly stupid of a decision it was for Meadows to stop cooperating after he started. It seems clear that Donald Trump’s nastygram press release rattled Meadows’ cage. But regardless of whatever Trump may have held over Meadows’ head in order to get him to flip flop, Meadows has already helped send himself to prison with his brief but revealing cooperation.
This means Mark Meadows is going to be indicted for criminal contempt, and he could end up indicted for underlying January 6th crimes on top of it. Even if you’re guilty and they already have you nailed, it’s hard to blow it that badly. I don’t want to hear any more talk about how Meadows is skillfully playing both sides or whatever. He’s clearly an idiot who’s just panicking and taking himself down.
