Meadows turned over to prosecutors the same documents he was requested through a subpoena also issued to him by the House Select Committee investigating the events leading up to the riot, according to CNN. In this composite image, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows arrives for the annual Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life Americas Gala and Fundraising Dinner at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, on September 13, 2022, and former President of US Donald Trump leaves Trump Tower, August 2022 at the Getty, New York Last year, Meadows submitted thousands of text messages to the Jan. 6 panel — including ones showing Fox News hosts and Donald Trump Jr. expressing concerns about violence on Capitol Hill — before he stopped cooperating. The Jan. 6 delivery of the material to the committee is part of the obligations required to comply with the DoJ’s subpoena, according to CNN. Meadows is now the most senior Trump official known to have responded to a subpoena in the Jan. 6 federal probe, with experts pointing to potential legal issues this could mean for the former president. Others also suggested that the reports prove earlier speculation that Meadows was not charged by the DoJ because he did not comply with a congressional subpoena. Former Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino also escaped prosecution for failing to comply with a congressional subpoena, but former White House adviser Steve Bannon and former Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro were indicted. Tristen Snell, a lawyer and former assistant attorney general for New York state, said Meadows’ compliance with the DoJ subpoena shows he is “playing ball” with federal investigators. “This is why the DOJ didn’t prosecute Meadows for contempt of Congress: he was already working with them,” Snell tweeted. “This is NOT good for Trump. Meadows was Trump’s right hand man in everything related to January 6th.” The Twitter account for the left-leaning Palmer Report blog also said Meadows’ reports that he was cooperating with the DOJ in the Jan. 6 probe “could be the worst news for Trump.” “Meadows knows more about Trump’s crimes than anyone else,” the Palmer report tweeted. “Meadows has a history of partial cooperation against Trump, so he can stay out of jail while telling himself he remains loyal to Trump. So there’s reason to suspect he could do the same here. “But regardless of whether Meadows fully complied with the DOJ subpoena, the fact that he gave the DOJ as much as he gave the House is still very bad news for Trump. It makes moot the question of whether the House is sharing everything with the DOJ .” Elie Honig, CNN senior legal analyst, said Meadows’ compliance with the DoJ subpoena would be “a start” toward cooperation. “Strange that they have only subpoenaed material he had already given to the Jan 6 Commission (as opposed to everything),” Honig tweeted. “The DOJ has to get the job done or it’s useless. There is no half-way cooperation with the DOJ.” But national security attorney Bradley Moss urged people to “temper your excitement” around Meadows. “I didn’t read too much into the reporting behind Meadows, he was just complying with what was ordered by the subpoena. There is no evidence that he flipped or is cooperating beyond the subpoena,” Moss tweeted. Newsweek has reached out to Meadows for comment.
