Meadows is the first Trump associate to testify in open court about actions the former president took after the 2020 election, providing a preview of what could come in the months ahead.
ATLANTA — Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s final White House chief of staff, testified in a federal courtroom in Georgia on Monday that he helped question the 2020 presidential election results out of a federal interest in “free and fair elections” intended to build national trust in the outcome and bring on a peaceful transfer of power.
The Monday hearing focused heavily on Meadows’s participation in a Jan. 2, 2021, phone call between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger , during which Trump said he wanted to “find” enough votes to overturn his loss to Biden, and a trip Meadows took to Georgia in December 2020 to witness a state-run audit of absentee ballot signatures in the Atlanta suburbs.
“I’ve seen candidates lose and have a recount, but outreach to this extent was extraordinary,” Raffensperger said.Meadows also said he did not know that three of the lawyers on the line — Cleta Mitchell, Kurt Hilbert and Alex Kaufman — had participated in a campaign lawsuit against Raffensperger. Under questioning from his own attorney, Meadows repeatedly described the post-election atmosphere at the White House as chaotic. He testified that because he was viewed as someone who had “the ear of the president,” he received a deluge of phone calls and emails, including from those raising questions about the outcome of the 2020 election.“It felt like my phone number was plastered on every bathroom wall in America,” Meadows said of the calls.
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