Former President Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that Mark Meadows, his former White House chief of staff, would be a "weakling and a coward" for taking a plead deal from special counsel Jack Smith to testify against him regarding alleged efforts to subvert the 2020 election results.
Meadows was granted immunity to testify in front of a federal grand jury that he repeatedly told Trump in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election that allegations of significant voting fraud coming to them were baseless, ABC News reported Wednesday.
"Mark Meadows NEVER told me that allegations of significant fraud [about the RIGGED Election!] were baseless," Trump posted on Truth Social. "He certainly didn't say that in his book!"
In another Truth Social post, Trump suggested Meadows, whose book "The Chief's Chief" chronicled his tenure in the final 10 months of Trump's presidency, was pressured by Smith to testify against him or face going to to jail and losing everything. Trump wrote some weak and cowardly people might make such a deal, but that he didn't think Meadows was one before concluding, "But who really knows?"
Trump wrote: "I don't think Mark Meadows would lie about the Rigged and Stollen 2020 Presidential Election merely for getting IMMUNITY against Prosecution (PERSECUTION!) by Deranged Prosecutor, Jack Smith. BUT, when you really think about it, after being hounded like a dog for three years, told you’ll be going to jail for the rest of your life, your money and your family will be forever gone, and we’re not at all interested in exposing those that did the RIGGING — If you say BAD THINGS about that terrible 'MONSTER,' DONALD J. TRUMP, we won't put you in prison, you can keep your family and your wealth, and, perhaps, if you can make up some really horrible 'STUFF' a out him, we may very well erect a statue of you in the middle of our decaying and now very violent Capital, Washington, D.C.
"Some people would make that deal, but they are weaklings and cowards, and so bad for the future of our Failing Nation. I don't think that Mark Meadows is one of them, but who really knows? MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!"
The report of Meadows' immunity deal with prosecutors comes after three of Trump's co-defendants in the case regarding alleged attempts to subvert Georgia's 2020 election results — lawyers Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro, and Jenna Ellis — agreed to testify in accepting plea agreements offered by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, a Democrat.
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