Trump Faces Big Problems As Mark Meadows Cooperates With DOJ

Donald Trump could be in even worse legal shape than we had thought now that it has been revealed that his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, is cooperating with the DOJ's investigation into Trump. Meadows was the person closest to Trump, and he is complying with a subpoena to turn over his materials for the investigation. Farron Cousins explains what this means for the investigation and for Trump's legal issues.

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Well folks, it looks like Donald Trump's legal problems are probably about to get a whole heck of a lot worse. And I'm not referring to what I spoke about earlier today about the investigation in New York. Nope. This one is involving, of course the DOJs grand jury investigation into the events before, during, and after January 6th, they're investigating a lot of stuff in DC with regard to January 6th, but specifically they are definitely investigating the fake elector scheme. And the reason Trump's legal problems are likely getting a little bit worse right now with that investigation is because we learned this week, something shocking. We learned that Mark Meadows, Donald Trump's, former chief of staff, his right hand, man, the man who had the thousands of text messages, coordinating everything and everyone involved in that scheme has agreed to cooperate with the DOJ. He is complying with the subpoena. He has turned over all of the information that the DOJ has asked for which not.

Coincidentally is the same information that the January 6th committee asked Mark Meadows to turn over. And you'll recall Mark Meadows put up quite a fight to not comply with the subpoena from the, uh, January 6th committee. And you'll also recall that his refusal to cooperate led to a criminal referral from the house of representatives that sat over there at the DOJ for months and months and months, and months and months until just a couple months ago, the DOJ officially announced we're not gonna do anything with this criminal referral. We're bye-bye, it's garbage. Let's throw that in the recycle bin. We don't need it. And now we learn that after that happened, Mark Meadows decided, you know what? I'm gonna go ahead and cooperate with the DOJ almost as if he said, you know what? You did me a favor, so I'm gonna do you a favor, right? You scratched my back.

Now it's my turn to scratch your back. Kind of seems to me, at least somebody got to play. Let's make a deal. Now, obviously that speculation, I'm guessing I'm actually, I'm not guessing. I'm assuming that is what happened because the DOJ had no reason whatsoever to not act on that criminal referral to Mark Meadows. I we've seen, obviously they're clearly not afraid to go after members of the Trump administration, because they did send the FBI down to Malago to Trump's house. So clearly they weren't afraid to go after Trump or his people. So why just let that criminal referral

Go? You know, that that was a pretty easy slam dunk thing, right? Unless of course you held onto it for all those months, because that's the other thing. If you weren't gonna do it, when it first came to your desk, you'd been like, okay, well this is garbage. Thanks. I'm not gonna do anything. You held onto it for months and months and months. And then after it's sitting there collecting dust, then you just randomly decide, you know what? We're not gonna do it. Oh. And by the way, this guy's also cooperating with us now. Totally coincidental, Uhuh. Nope, Nope. Don't buy it. I think the DOJ got him. I think the department of justice got with Mark Meadows, got with his lawyers and said, let's make a deal. We can charge you. We got this document right here. It'll be real easy. It'll be real quick. And you'll be in real trouble cuz you got no excuse to not comply with this. We can make your life. Hell we can tie you up with litigations. We can bleed you dry with litigation or you can help us. It's your choice, mark. What do you wanna do?

As I've said, plenty of times, if you squeal, you get the deal. I think that's a fun way to remember that. And Mark Meadows at this point understands he's facing a lot of trouble, especially with regard to that fake elector scheme. He was the guy again at the center of it. He's texting everybody. He is the central hub of that whole plan. Everything went through him. He knows everything. So if you were gonna get somebody to make a deal with you to cut a deal with you, it would have to be somebody who does know everything or at least most of everything.