of the presidential race. go talk to meadows. got a dubious tip about voter fraud? go talk to meadows. found an outlandish twitter thread about voter rigging, go talk to meadows. meadows refers to mark meadows, former president trump s chief of staff, who is facing possible contempt charges. records of his possible communications with others are now under intense scrutiny. last week, the january 6th praenld out some of meadows text messages and revealed that some came from unnamed members of congress. here s what one of them said. yesterday, january 6th was a terrible day. we tried everything we could in our objection to the six states. i m sorry nothing worked. on this show yesterday, donald trump s former personal attorney and fixer michael cohen weighed in on meadows text messages. i think mark meadows is the dumbest a-hole on the hill, to
that s exactly right. it s important to know that the traditional role of a chief of staff is that of a gatekeeper. there is a well-known book on chiefs of staff, called the gatekeepers. but meadows in many ways was the exact opposite. he was a gay opener as it were, to the president into the west wing. it was very clear that he was sort of this conduit in the hub, or conspiracy theories for misinformation. and for the people who were peddling that. at a certain point, we reported that people in the presidents orbit, who sort of felt a little uncomfortable with this, that wasn t all of them, but there were some. who said after the election was called, they started distancing themselves with the administration. the common refrain came, go talk to meadows. they knew meadows was the type of person who, at the very least would be a sounding board and listen to this. in some cases, as we have documented, he would pass it on. there were senior administration officials who would get with th