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11 Jan, 26 tweets, 17 min read
Mark Randall #Meadows
1959

29th White House Chief of Staff
since 2020

U.S. Representative (R)
NC 11th congressional district
2013 to 2020

Chair, House Freedom Caucus
2017 to 2019

falsely claimed to hold a B.A. from @USouthFlorida in his official bio

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Mead…
Mark #Meadows “signed onto the Tea Party’s “Contract from America” in 2013 and helped push other Republicans toward supporting a government shutdown over funding the Affordable Care Act that same year.”

“the right-leaning nature of Meadows’s district…”

vox.com/2019/12/19/210…
“… shaped his politics & political decisions, including … for Trump:

It’s the kind of dynamic that has allowed #Meadows to sit at an extreme of his party: He comes from a safe conservative district, with a fondness for tactics that force Republicans to move to the right.”
30 Dec 2019

‘North Carolina Republicans find out tea party hero Mark #Meadows is a fraud’

“seems to be more about boxing out candidates to replace him, making way for a friend of his wife's, who launched her campaign just hours after his announcement.”

dailykos.com/story/2019/12/…
“When Trump shut down portions of the federal government in 2019 during partisan squabbling over the funding for the wall between the U.S and Mexico, #Meadows stood firmly on the president's side.”

“Meadows was also part of the "#birther" movement”

newsweek.com/who-mark-meado…
‘The Carolinas' Piper of the Suicide Caucus’

“Most members of the suicide caucus have districts similar to #Meadows’s. While the most salient demographic fact about America is that it is becoming more diverse, Republican districts actually became less”

charlottemagazine.com/the-carolinas-…
28 Feb 2019

‘After denying #racism, videos of #Meadows vowing to send Obama 'home to Kenya' resurface’

“The videos were shared by liberal commentators in response to an exchange between Meadows and Rep. Rashida Tlaib during a hearing featuring …”

usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
“…President Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen. #Meadows invited Lynne Patton – a longtime Trump associate and current Housing and Urban Development official – to the hearing and referred to her while disputing Cohen's allegation that the president is a #racist.”
28 Feb 2019

‘Republican who denied he was racist suggested Obama was born in Africa’

#MarkMeadows twice alluded to ‘birther’ hoax in 2012’

#Meadows denied using woman as a racist prop in Cohen hearing’

theguardian.com/us-news/2019/f…
30 Oct 2020

‘CREW files complaint against Mark #Meadows over campaign spending’

“Meadows announced in Dec 2019 he would not seek reelection, and took a job in the White House in March 2020, but his campaign, later converted to the Freedom First PAC …”

citizensforethics.org/legal-action/l…
“… continued to spend on meals at places like the Capitol Hill Club without explanation and without apparent connection to legitimate campaign purposes…

The spending includes a jewelry store and numerous restaurants & clubs, including the Trump Hotel in DC & its restaurants.”
16 Nov 2018

‘GOP Rep. #MarkMeadows Fined Over $40K for Handling of Sexual-Harassment Complaint’

The committee fined #Meadows $40,625.02 “for Mr. West’s salary that was not commensurate with his work.”

thedailybeast.com/gop-rep-mark-m…
“And though the primary source of interest has been why #Meadows… continued to pay his former top aide Kenny West long after complaints were made about West’s behavior and even following West’s termination, another wrinkle has recently emerged …”

thedailybeast.com/ex-mark-meadow…
“Such is the case with U.S. Rep. Mark #Meadows …who either earned an A.A. from the University of South Florida in Tampa or a B.A., depending on your time-traveling habits and which websites you visit.

“The discrepancy surfaced in December when Trump…”

citizen-times.com/story/news/loc…
30 Oct 2020

#MarkMeadows apparently used taxpayer funds to help wife's friend raise campaign cash’

“as Bennett's fundraising slipped, Meadows began channeling money to her campaign thru 2 of his other groups: his leadership PAC, Your Voice Counts; &…”

news.yahoo.com/mark-meadows-a…
“the timing of the announcement — the day after the House impeached Trump — was … unavoidable, given the filing deadline for his seat is on Friday.

"He wanted to announce it post-impeachment to minimize any appearance of it having to do with the vote”

axios.com/mark-meadows-r…
“perhaps the most interesting detail about Mark #Meadows’ rise can be found in his opportunistic nexus with the takeover of North Carolina by hard-right Republicans in 2010. The two are conjoined twins. At the heart of all the gerrymandering, voting…”

mountainx.com/opinion/man-of…
“…gerrymandering, voting suppression & outright fraud now prevalent in North Carolina lie the self-interest of people like #Meadows and the self-deception of their supporters.”

“North Carolina Republicans knew how to stop the 2018 blue wave & the inevitability of demographics”
“White House Chief of Staff Mark #Meadows traveled to Cobb County on December 22nd, where he tried to observe the signature matching process.

Meadows was not allowed to be in the room with investigators while the audit took place, and he was only able…”

rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
“… #Meadows was not allowed to be in the room with investigators while the audit took place, and he was only able to stand in the doorway. She also said that she answered Meadows’s ‘basic questions about the process.’”

‘As chief of staff, #Meadows enables a rogue president’

“The first voice on the now infamous recording of President Trump badgering Georgia elections officials to reverse Georgia’s presidential vote isn’t the voice of the president. It’s the voice of …”

newsobserver.com/opinion/articl…
“… former North Carolina congressman and now White House Chief of Staff #MarkMeadows: “OK. Alright. Mr. President, everyone is on the line.”

It’s fitting that #Meadows opens this attempt to undermine democracy that may have broken the law.”

22 Dec 2020

‘Top Trump aide #MarkMeadows visits Georgia ballot signature audit’

#Meadows made a surprise visit Tuesday to observe #Georgia’s audit of absentee ballot envelope signatures and ask questions about the process. …”

ajc.com/politics/top-t…
“…#Meadows, accompanied by Secret Service agents, showed up at the Cobb County Civic Center, where investigators from [GBI] & the secretary of state’s office were reviewing absentee ballot envelopes to check whether voter signatures match those on file.”

“The call between Watson and Trump took place on Dec. 23, one week before the now-famous phone call between Trump, Raffensperger, his attorney Ryan Germany and White House senior staff members. …”

Mark #Meadows
Trump chief of staff
#Georgia
wsbtv.com/news/local/new…
“… Watson said her call from Trump came after a conversation with his chief of staff Mark #Meadows about the signature audit her team and the GBI were conducting in Cobb County.”

#MarkMeadows
wsbtv.com/news/local/new…

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