GA Case

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is rather amazing that Meadows is taking the stand in this.

Really!?!

What can he say? How can he possibly justify this?

And didn’t he refuse to testify in congress? Executive privilege, etc.

[Anonymous]

Arraignments of all 19 defendants are on September 6, starting with Trump at 9:30 am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is rather amazing that Meadows is taking the stand in this.

Really!?!

What can he say? How can he possibly justify this?

And didn’t he refuse to testify in congress? Executive privilege, etc.

As the Miranda warning goes, anything he says can be used against him in a court of law.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-indictment-2020-election-08-28-23/index.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Arraignments of all 19 defendants are on September 6, starting with Trump at 9:30 am.

Trump campaign lawyer Ray Smith has already waived arraignment and pleaded not guilty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is rather amazing that Meadows is taking the stand in this.

Really!?!

What can he say? How can he possibly justify this?

And didn’t he refuse to testify in congress? Executive privilege, etc.

As the Miranda warning goes, anything he says can be used against him in a court of law.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-indictment-2020-election-08-28-23/index.html

Meadows will find it hard to argue his official capacity involves advising the president to call Georgia when he stated on the record that he knew Trump had lost.

[Anonymous]

So why on earth is Meadows doing this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
So why on earth is Meadows doing this?

IANAL, but reasons for wanting his trial moved to federal court include getting a better jury pulled from the entire NDGA instead of just Fulton County, getting a chance at a Trump-appointed federal judge, and not having the proceedings televised. Perhaps a lawyer can shed more light on this.

[Anonymous]

So he basically admitted that he was helping the campaign as a white house employee, including solicitiing funds for the campaign within the white house. Like that is a serious FEC violation as well as Hatch Act violation.

And, he had admitted knowing that Trump lost the election, so all said actions were done under fraudulent conditions.

But, it was all done in furtherance of overturning the results in Georgia, so there is little to no chance that the venue would be changed.

Oh well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So he basically admitted that he was helping the campaign as a white house employee, including solicitiing funds for the campaign within the white house. Like that is a serious FEC violation as well as Hatch Act violation.

And, he had admitted knowing that Trump lost the election, so all said actions were done under fraudulent conditions.

But, it was all done in furtherance of overturning the results in Georgia, so there is little to no chance that the venue would be changed.

Oh well.

Does Meadows have a lawyer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So he basically admitted that he was helping the campaign as a white house employee, including solicitiing funds for the campaign within the white house. Like that is a serious FEC violation as well as Hatch Act violation.

And, he had admitted knowing that Trump lost the election, so all said actions were done under fraudulent conditions.

But, it was all done in furtherance of overturning the results in Georgia, so there is little to no chance that the venue would be changed.

Oh well.

Does Meadows have a lawyer?

Meadows’s lawyer is John Moran with McGuireWoods. He was the chief of staff to then acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen while all the events in question were happening, and has been representing Meadows pretty much since Inauguration Day including in the fight to get him to testify to the January 6 Committee. He’s mentioned in this article about when he was with DOJ and the Trump admin was trying to use DOJ to overturn the election.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/interactive/2021/trump-justice-department-2020-election/
He’s also mentioned here as inappropriately receiving information about Cassidy Hutchinson and her committee testimony from her first Trump-aligned lawyer Stefan Passantino whom she later fired.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/22/politics/cassidy-hutchinson-jan-6-testimony-trump-pressure/index.html
Swampy.

[Anonymous]

What does a judge do when a defendant gets on the stand and admits to another crime that is not the same crime that the defendant is on the stand for??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
So why on earth is Meadows doing this?

I’ve heard a couple different analyses of this and it seems that he’s gambling big on getting immunity because he thinks it was his job as a federal officer to do all these crimes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
So why on earth is Meadows doing this?

I’ve heard a couple different analyses of this and it seems that he’s gambling big on getting immunity because he thinks it was his job as a federal officer to do all these crimes.

Seems like a foolhardy gamble.

And why would a court decide to break up a RICO case?

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

This would make me happy if I'm Meadows.