10/26/2022
A South Carolina judge has ruled that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows must testify before a special grand jury investigating election meddling in Georgia by former President Donald Trump and his allies.
A judge in South Carolina ordered former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify before a Georgia grand jury investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies attempted to reverse the state’s 2020 election results.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis opened the investigation early last year into actions taken by Trump and others to overturn his loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Meadows is one of a number of high-profile associates and advisers of the Republican former president whose testimony Willis has sought.
Willis had to put the matter before a judge in South Carolina, where Meadows lives, in order to compel his testimony before the panel.
Meadows’ attorney James Bannister told CNN that the former North Carolina congressman plans to appeal the ruling.
In the petition seeking Meadows’ testimony, Willis wrote that Meadows attended a Dec. 21, 2020, meeting at the White House with Trump and others “to discuss allegations of voter fraud and certification of electoral college votes from Georgia and other states.”
The next day, Willis wrote, Meadows made a “surprise visit” to Cobb County, just outside Atlanta, where an audit of signatures on absentee ballot envelopes was being conducted.
He asked to observe the audit but wasn’t allowed to because it wasn’t open to the public, the petition says.
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