January 6 Committee Targets Meadows for Criminal Contempt Charges
The House committee will “move quickly” to refer the Trump’s former White House chief of staff for criminal contempt for not cooperating with its investigation.
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According to committee member Rep. Adam Schiff, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol will “move quickly” to refer Mark Meadows, who was former President Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff, for criminal contempt for not cooperating with its investigation, reports NBC News. Meadows refused to meet congressional investigators on November 12, 2021. Schiff said that the committee may also recommend that the Justice Department file criminal charges against other witnesses who refuse to cooperate but that it will pursue that option only as a last resort. “I view this as an early test of whether our democracy was recovering. If our law is to mean anything, it has to be applied equally,” Schiff said. “And so I’m very glad the Justice Department has moved forward in this fashion.”
