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Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows claims in a legal filing that the House select committee on January 6 is leaking the information he provided, namely text messages, in an attempt to “vilify” him in the media.
Meadows left the U.S. House to serve in the White House as Trump’s Chief of Staff at the beginning of 2020. Numerous text messages – both about the 2020 election and January 6 – have been released to the media through various means, including texts exchanged between Meadows and Virginia Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
Now, Meadows and his lawyers accuse the committee of waging a “sustained media campaign” against Meadows, reports the Associated Press.
“The Congressional Defendants, under the auspices of a legitimate subpoena, induced Mr. Meadows to produce thousands of his private communications only to use them in a concerted and ongoing effort to vilify him publicly through the media,” wrote Meadows’ lawyer George Terwilliger in a motion filed Friday.
His lawyers also asked the judge to reject the committee’s request for a ruling that would require Meadows to provide more text message records. They say the former White House Chief of Staff deserves the opportunity for discovery, including to gather testimony contradicting the committee’s claims “that former President Donald Trump did not actually invoke executive privilege” over the subpoenaed materials.
Last year the U.S. House, controlled by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, voted to hold their former colleague Meadows in criminal contempt for refusing to comply with the subpoenas.
The Department of Justice has yet to determine whether they will move forward.
Meanwhile, Meadows has written a new book about his time in the White House, even as conservatives have asked hard questions about his apparent ties to the Humpty Dumpty Institute, a Chinese group that apparently seeks to form close […]
Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
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JD Rucker