Mark Meadows wrote in an email a day before the January 6 attack on the Capitol that the National Guard would be standing by to protect pro-Trump protesters. A parliamentary committee writes that in a report on the former chief of staff to former President Donald Trump.
The US House of Representatives committee investigating the riots recommends in the report that Meadows be prosecuted for his refusal to cooperate fully with the investigation. It will likely be voted on Monday.
Meadows previously handed over to the committee a PowerPoint presentation containing plans to commit a coup, according to the British newspaper The Guardian. That presentation said, among other things, that Trump’s closest allies, people like Meadows himself, Rudy Giuliani and Steve Bannon, would have tried until January 6 to find a way to keep Trump in power, despite his election loss. On January 6, Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in an attempt to prevent the election results from being officially approved. They couldn’t.
According to the parliamentary committee, meadows’ email was one of the things she would have liked to question him about. Meadows agreed to cooperate with the investigation in late November but later withdrew. Although he handed over some of the documents requested by the commission, he also withheld many documents.
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