Meadows and Trump were among 19 indicted Monday in a case accusing them of acting as a 'criminal enterprise.'
indicted Monday night in a case accusing them of acting as a"criminal enterprise" in their alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election after Trump's defeat.
between Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Jan. 2, 2021, in which Trump asked Raffensperger to"find" 11,780 votes — the number he'd need to wipe out Joe Biden's victory in the state.as a go-between for Trump and others involved in coordinating his team's strategy for contesting the election and"disrupting and delaying the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.
A spokesperson for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis did not reply to a request for comment. "Nothing Mr. Meadows is alleged in the indictment to have done is criminal per se: arranging Oval Office meetings, contacting state officials on the President's behalf, visiting a state government building, and setting up a phone call for the President," they wrote."One would expect a Chief of Staff to the President of the United States to do these sorts of things."
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