he was a gate opener, as it were, to the president and to the west wing, and it was very clear that he was sort of this conduit and hub or conspiracy theorist for misinformation and for the people who are peddling them. at a certain point, we reported that the the people in the president s orbit who sort of felt a little uncomfortable with this and that wasn t all of them, but there were some who after the election started distancing themselves from the administration. the common refrain became go to talk to meadows because they knew meadows was the type of person who would be at the very least be a sounding board and listen to this. and in some cases as luke documents, as we have documented, he would pass it on. yeah. you know, there were senior administration officials who would get what they believed were sort of very problematic voicemails from these conspiracy theorists, and the voicemails would begin, hey, meadows gave me your number and told me to call. and that was the