Meadows Testified Before Grand Jury After Being Granted Immunity: Sources

Mark Meadows reportedly testified before a federal grand jury in the election interference case against former President Trump, according to sources who spoke to ABC News. The sources say Meadows, Trump's former chief of staff, has talked to special counsel Jack Smith's team at least two other times this year, and that the grand jury testimony came only after Meadows was granted immunity to testify under oath. Meadows reportedly told the grand jury that in the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, he told Trump multiple times that allegations of voting fraud being reported to Trump had no basis in reality.

In a book Meadows published after Trump left office, Meadows agreed with Trump's assertion that the election was "stolen," but sources say that when questioned by the special counsel's investigators, he said he has still seen no actual evidence of any election fraud and that he agrees with a government that the 2020 election was actually the most secure in the country's history. Asked for comment, a member of Trump's 2024 presidential campaign told ABC, "Wrongful, unethical leaks throughout these Biden witch-hunts only underscore how detrimental these empty cases are to our Democracy and System of Justice and how vital it is for President Trump's First Amendment rights to not be infringed upon by un-Constitutional gag orders." See the full article at ABC.

Trump himself referred to the article about Meadows in a series of posts to his Truth Social network, CNN reports. The former president cast doubt on the idea that Meadows would make a deal with prosecutors, and said, "Mark Meadows NEVER told me that allegations of significant fraud (about the RIGGED Election!) were baseless. He certainly didn't say that in his book!" While Meadows was not indicted alongside Trump in the federal election interference case, he was indicted in the Georgia election interference case against Trump, the Hill reports. As for how his testimony might impact the federal case, the Guardian doubts it will change Trump's testimony: The former POTUS "has consistently argued there were some advisers who said the election was stolen, and some who said it was not—and he agreed with the people alleging there was outcome-determinative election fraud." (More Mark Meadows stories.)