An attorney for former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has announced that his client is no longer cooperating with the January 6th hoax committee.
According to Mark Meadows’ attorney, George Terwilliger, his client was unable to agree on terms for working with the committee after initially agreeing to voluntarily answer questions that were not protected by executive privilege.
“We have made efforts over many weeks to reach an accommodation with the committee,” Mr. Terwilliger said in a statement to Fox News.
In a letter to the January 6th committee, Terwilliger stated that a deposition would be “untenable” because the House panel “has no intention of respecting boundaries” in relation to questions that former President Donald Trump has asserted are protected by executive privilege.
The attorney also noted that he had learned over the weekend that the committee had issued a subpoena to a third-party communications provider that he said would include “intensely personal” information.
Before recent developments, Terwilliger maintained that he believed his client could reach a deal to cooperate with the committee, though he was clear that Meadows couldn’t make “a unilateral decision to waive Executive Privilege claims asserted by the former president.”
But now, with the demands that the committee is making, the attorney says that is no longer possible.
Meadows spoke out about the decision in an interview on the streaming news network Real America’s Voice.
“In addition, we found that in spite of our cooperation and sharing documents with them, they had issued, unbeknownst to us and not without even a courtesy call, issued a subpoena to a third-party carrier trying to get information,” he said. “And so, at this point, we, we feel like it’s best that we just continue to honor the executive privilege, and it looks like the courts are going to have to weigh in on this.”
Of course, the partisan committee run by Democrats and RINOs is already calling for Meadows’ to be punished. The chair of the select committee, Democrat Rep. Bennie Thompson, and the vice chair, RINO Rep. Liz Cheney, said that if Meadows refuses to appear at his deposition, the committee “will be left no choice but to advance contempt proceedings and recommend that the body in which Mr. Meadows once served refer him for criminal prosecution.”
Thompson and Cheney also noted in a statement that even while the privilege issues are litigated, the committee has “numerous questions” about records that Meadows has already given to the committee “with no claim of privilege, which include real-time communications with many individuals as the events of January 6th unfolded.”
Mark Meadows, Donald Trump, and many other Trump administration officials have repeatedly denied that any officials within the administration had any advanced knowledge of the security breach at the Capitol. There has been no evidence produced as of yet to prove them wrong.
Meadows also maintains that he has tried his best to cooperate with the committee.
“Hopefully in the end they will see that I’ve tried to cooperate, but they failed to meet us halfway,” he said.
