It was reported earlier today by ConservativeBrief that former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is no longer cooperating with the Democrat-run Jan. 6 Committee, according to reports that cited a letter from his attorney.“We agreed to provide thousands of pages of responsive documents and Mr. Meadows was willing to appear voluntarily, not under compulsion of the Select Committee’s subpoena to him, for a deposition to answer questions about non-privileged matters. Now actions by the Select Committee have made such an appearance untenable,” the letter from George J. Terwilliger II stated. “In short, we now have every indication from the information supplied to us last Friday – upon which Mr. Meadows could expect to be questioned — that the Select Committee has no intention of respecting boundaries concerning Executive Privilege,” Terwilliger added.
Meadows’ decision to stop cooperating is due in part to learning over the weekend that the committee had “issued wide ranging subpoenas for information from a third party communications provider,” the letter says.
“As a result of careful and deliberate consideration of these factors, we now must decline the opportunity to appear voluntarily for a deposition,” Terwilliger writes.
Initially, the former chief of staff agreed to report for an initial interview, CNN, who first broke the story on Tuesday, reported.
“Mr. Meadows has been engaging with the Select Committee through his attorney,” Democratic Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson the chair of the committee, said in a statement to CNN. “He has produced records to the committee and will soon appear for an initial deposition. The Select Committee expects all witnesses, including Mr. Meadows, to provide all information requested and that the Select Committee is lawfully entitled to receive. The Committee will continue to assess his degree of compliance with our subpoena after the deposition.”
