There have been questions for several months about whether, and to what degree, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has cooperated with investigators scrutinizing Donald Trump’s alleged crimes. It was against this backdrop that ABC News jolted the political world a bit with this report.
Former President Donald Trump’s final chief of staff in the White House, Mark Meadows, has spoken with special counsel Jack Smith’s team at least three times this year, including once before a federal grand jury, which came only after Smith granted Meadows immunity to testify under oath, according to sources familiar with the matter.
According to the report, which has not been independently confirmed by MSNBC or NBC News, Meadows not only spoke to the special counsel’s office, the Republican also told investigators that he repeatedly told Trump in the wake of his defeat that the then-president’s voter fraud claims were baseless.
What’s more, according to the unconfirmed ABC News report and its unidentified sources, Meadows also told the investigators that Trump was being “dishonest” when he first claimed to have won the election before the final results were tallied.
“Obviously we didn’t win,” a source quoted Meadows as telling Smith’s team in hindsight.
The ABC News report concluded, “A spokesperson for Smith and an attorney for Meadows declined to comment to ABC News for this story.” That said, George Terwilliger, Meadows’ attorney, later told CBS News, “I told ABC that their story was largely inaccurate. People will have to judge for themselves the decision to run it anyway.”








