Thread by @rgoodlaw

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I just published a comprehensive Timeline (w/ @JuileeShivalkar)

"The Chief of Staff and Schemes to Overturn 2020 Election"

Highlights:

1. Meadows and Giuliani created “parallel track” to raise election fraud claims (WSJ's @MichaelCBender book)
justsecurity.org/77681/mark-mea…

2. Meadows introduced Trump to DOJ official Jeffrey Clark, who was plotting to oust the acting attorney general and use Justice Department to overturn election results in Georgia.

(via WSJ's @MichaelCBender book)
(cc: @ktbenner @CatieEdmondson - may connect up with Rep. Perry)

3. Meadows arranged and participated in call in which Trump asked Georgia Sec'y of State Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes," and during the call Meadows asked the Georgia officials to share voting data even after they told him they could not because it was protected by law.

4. Meadows made a surprise visit to Georgia where he met with the Secretary of State’s lead elections investigator. Trump called her the next day — the president said it was on Meadow’s suggestion — and in the call urged her to find fraud in Fulton County.

5. Meadows expressed upset, along with Trump, in response to Attorney General Barr's having told the Associated Press there was no election fraud that could have affected the outcome in the election.

“Surprisingly to Barr, Meadows hated” it.

via @CarolLeonnig @PhilipRucker book

6. Meadows appears to have repeatedly crossed the line into political-campaign activity.

Example:

Trump campaign staff followed up on “Meadows’ theory” that tens of thousands of “illegal aliens” voted in Arizona.

(via @CarolLeonnig @PhilipRucker book)

7. Worth remembering this line from Meadows in Aug. 2020 (amid concerns White House had repeatedly violated Hatch Act in supporting Trump campaign).

Meadows: "Nobody outside of the Beltway really cares" about Hatch Act violations.

via @michaelcrowley
nytimes.com/2020/08/26/us/…

8. In barrage of communications with Justice Department—in violation of White House and Department contacts policies—Meadows pressured the Department to investigate baseless allegations of election fraud.

Here's a sample from the Timeline.👇

9/9. Capstone:

In his final days in office, Trump hopes to issue preemptive pardons for Meadows and possibly Giuliani and himself.

Why?

(reporting via @JenniferJJacobs @justinsink @josh_wingrove)
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…