Now ABC is giving details of things Meadow said the Special Prosecutor.
Appearing to contradict former President Donald Trump's primary public defense in the classified documents case, former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has told special counsel Jack Smith's investigators that he could not recall Trump ever ordering, or even discussing, declassifying broad sets of classified materials before leaving the White House, nor was he aware of any "standing order" from Trump authorizing the automatic declassification of materials taken out of the Oval Office, sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.
Remember Bedminster? Trump was talking to Meadows's biographers. Meadows said in the early draft of the book, it was a classified document.
ABC News has also reviewed an early draft of the prologue to Meadows' book, "The Chief's Chief," about his time serving as Trump's chief of staff for the final months of the Trump White House, which includes a description of Trump having a classified war plan "on the couch" at his office in Bedminster, New Jersey, at a meeting attended by Meadows' ghostwriter and publicist, but not by Meadows himself. The reference to that document being in Trump's possession was removed before the book was published.
Multiple sources tell ABC News Meadows acknowledged to investigators that he asked that the paragraph be changed, and that it would be "problematic" had Trump had such a document in his possession.
Following the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, Trump's team issued a statement to one media outlet claiming that, while still in office, Trump had issued "a standing order that documents removed from the Oval Office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them."
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While Trump's attorneys have not formally put forward such a defense in court, if they were to seek to make such a claim at trial then prosecutors could see substantial value in putting forward Meadows as a witness to counter such claims.
A month ago there was a GAW thread saying Team Trump suspected Trump had flipped.
Now ABC is giving details of things Meadow said the Special Prosecutor.
Remember Bedminster? Trump was talking to Meadows's biographers. Meadows said in the early draft of the book, it was a classified document.
Meadows could be called as a witness.
I seem to recall seeing Trump's written order posted here at GAW about declassification of all docs.
I’m at the” hide and watch “ mode now— trust God!
all we have at this point as far as who to trust!!