A new report says that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows was given protection by Special Counsel Jack Smith in exchange for testifying in the federal case against former President Donald Trump for contesting the 2020 election.
Trump supporters have long thought that Meadows was working with Smith, and some have even been afraid to talk to the former White House aide because they think the FBI is listening in on their conversations.
ABC News reports that Meadows told Smith’s team that he told Trump several times in the weeks after Trump lost the 2020 presidential race to Joe Biden that claims of widespread voter fraud were false.
The former congressman from North Carolina is said to have told officials that Trump was “lying” when he first said he won the election just hours after the polls closed on November 3, 2020.
“Obviously we didn’t win,” Meadows told federal investigators.
Meadows also said that he didn’t quit because he wanted to help make sure that the shift of power was smooth, even though he didn’t agree with Trump’s claims of election theft.
Smith gave a subpoena to Meadows in January. According to ABC News, Meadows has talked to the