{"id":51353,"date":"2022-04-25T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51353"},"modified":"2022-04-25T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T00:00:07","slug":"meadows-is-the-new-no-1-culprit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51353","title":{"rendered":"Meadows is the new No. 1 culprit?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mark_meadows_retires-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-51354\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mark_meadows_retires-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mark_meadows_retires-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mark_meadows_retires-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mark_meadows_retires-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mark_meadows_retires-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/mark_meadows_retires-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark Meadows may become &#8212; and pardon the reference &#8212; a <em>marked man<\/em> as the House select committee exploring the 1\/6 insurrection zeroes in on those who were responsible for what transpired on that terrible day.<\/p>\n<p>Meadows served as White House chief of staff at the end of Donald Trump&#8217;s term as POTUS. We are beginning to learn that Meadows well might have been involved up to his eyebrows in the planning of the riot that turned terribly violent.<\/p>\n<p>There is one big problem, though, in trying to learn the whole truth about what happened. Meadows isn&#8217;t complying with House demands to testify. The select committee still needs to determine whether to levy a contempt of Congress charge against Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>It needs to get real busy. Real fast.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re hearing now about text messages that Meadows sent and received involving some of Trump&#8217;s closest allies in Congress: the likes of Reps. Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Louie Gohmert.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Meadows appears to the common denominator among all those GOP nut jobs.<\/p>\n<p>We hear also that he expected violence to erupt on Capitol Hill before the riot actually occurred. What did he do about it? Not a damn thing! <em>Apparently &#8230;\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The White House chief of staff is a high-powered job, even when the POTUS at the time is a certifiable control freak. It will be fascinating for me &#8212; and millions of others &#8212; to see whether this No. 1 Trumpkin is held to account for what many of us believe he did or didn&#8217;t do when the mob of traitors sought to subvert our democratic process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Meadows may become &#8212; and pardon the reference &#8212; a marked man as the House select committee exploring the 1\/6 insurrection zeroes in on those who were responsible for what transpired on that terrible day. Meadows served as White House chief of staff at the end of Donald Trump&#8217;s term as POTUS. 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