Mark Meadows has always been viewed with suspicion in North Carolina due to his double-speak on issues and party betrayal. At crucial times, he appears to be a conservative champion, only to abandon absolute conservative values when it mattered to some individuals.
However, he has also contributed positively to the House Freedom Caucus during his tenure as a US Representative for North Carolina, making it unclear where his loyalties lie. This is the nature of politics, but when President Donald J. Trump selected Meadows as a trusted insider, many people were concerned for Trump.
And those suspicions that Meadows would sell Trump out may have been justified, as an increasing number of people suspect Meadows has turned against Trump and is selling him out in the latest ‘Get Trump’ witch hunt.
That 🐀 coward, Mark Meadows, gave in to the Deep State and is going to lie about J6 to frame President Trump.
Don't care, I'm voting Trump even if they put him in the hole!
— Nick (@nbbb2385) July 18, 2023
Recent media reports indicate that Meadows quipped about Trump’s election claims with his associates prior to January 6; these disclosures are fueling the speculation.
According to media reports citing a text cited by “people familiar with it,” Meadows wrote in the 2020 election that “his own son was unable to find more than a handful of votes potentially cast in the name of deceased voters.”
The Washington Post reported on the story of Meadow’s texts, with more details claiming that Meadows” joked about the baseless claim that large numbers of votes were fraudulently cast in the names of dead people in the days before the then-White House chief of staff participated in a phone call in which President Donald Trump alleged there were close to 5,000 dead voters in Georgia and urged Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s secretary of state, to overturn the 2020 election there, ” adding:
“In a text message that has been scrutinized by federal prosecutors, Meadows wrote to a White House lawyer that his son, Atlanta-area attorney Blake Meadows, had been probing possible fraud and had found only a handful of possible votes cast in dead voters’ names, far short of what Trump was alleging. The lawyer teasingly responded that perhaps Meadows’s son could locate the thousands of votes Trump would need to win the election. The text was described by multiple people familiar with the exchange.”
The left-leaning outlet continued their report by highlighting the frequency with which Trump’s purported closest associates questioned him and his election beliefs.
“The jocular text message, which has not been previously reported, is one of many exchanges from the time in which Trump aides and other Republican officials expressed deep skepticism or even openly mocked the election claims being made publicly by Trump, according to people familiar with the investigation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the criminal investigation,” WAPO reported.
With the investigation of special counsel Jack Smith and the pressure on people to turn against Trump, Trump’s dearth of actual support has become glaringly apparent.
Smith leads a highly corrupt DOJ investigation of Trump’s activities in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol and is said to be investigating whether Trump and his closest advisers knew that claims of election fraud were ‘baseless’.
According to media outlets, Smith will devote the majority of his efforts to proving that Trump and his administration exerted pressure on state officials and others to overturn Biden’s highly anomalous victory.
Smith, sources leaked to the left-leaning media that it was Trump who persuaded millions of supporters that the election had been stolen; sources familiar with the investigation told media outlets such as WAPO:
“The text message is a small part of a broader portrait of Meadows that Smith appears to be assembling as he weighs the actions of not just Trump but a number of his closest advisers, including Meadows, hinting that Meadows has flipped on Trump.”
WAPO goes on to use their power as media to apply pressure on Meadows to flip:
“People close to Meadows have said that he was privately sympathetic to those Trump advisers who were skeptical of the fraud claims. Yet Meadows also played both sides, often appearing to indulge Trump’s desire to use those false allegations to try to remain in office, people who witnessed his behavior have said.
A spokesman for Meadows declined to comment. Blake Meadows did not respond to a request for comment.
Since Trump said he was named a target of Smith’s investigation earlier this week, his allies have been feverishly speculating about the degree of Meadows’s cooperation with the Smith probe and whether he has provided testimony that Smith will use to build a case against Trump or others.
The Meadows text, which a person familiar with the investigation said prosecutors have presented to a grand jury, is a reminder that Smith has gathered documents and witness testimony that has not been seen by the public despite more than two years of congressional and media scrutiny about Trump’s activities following the election. He will probably offer the public the fullest picture yet available of the events that led to the Jan. 6 attack.
A spokesman for Smith declined to comment.”
Meadows orchestrated the famous call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on January 2, during which Trump’s opponents made the call sound as if Trump had urged Raffensperger to “find” the votes needed to overturn Biden’s victory, conveniently setting the stage for this entire drama.