Two in the GOP voted in favor of the resolution to refer the former White House chief of staff for contempt of Congress
Meadows received from prominent Fox News personalities Donald Trump, Jr., and those inside the Capitol urging him to get Trump to quell the violence at the Capitol. Cheney said those text messages and others Meadows turned over to the committee leave “no doubt” that the White House “knew exactly what was happening at the Capitol.” The committee voted unanimously to advance contempt proceeds, setting up Tuesday’s House-wide vote.laying out the case to hold Meadows in contempt.
Some of what the committee’s report detailed was hinted at last week in a letter the committee wrote informing Meadows that he left it with “no choice” but to move to hold him in contempt. The letter noted that Meadows wrote, “I love it,” in response to a “highly controversial” plan to replace state electors put forth by an unnamed member of Congress in the days following the election. The plan was referred to in messages asaimed at overturning the election results.
This is all to say that calling Meadows a figure of interest in the committee’s work to uncover what happened on Jan. 6 would be a gross understatement. He was clearly at the center of a very serious, very “direct,” as his emails put it, attack on the democratic process. In his orbit were an untold number of Republican lawmakers who were doing all they could to assist the administration’s efforts to overturn the results of the election.
Meadows is the second Trumpworld figure the House has voted to hold in contempt for refusing to cooperate with the committee’s investigation. The chamber in October voted in favor of a resolution to hold Steve Bannon in contempt, with
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