Subject: Re: more documents?
In the midst of that in the end of days :) one disappeared. Hutchison testified she thought Meadows took one home. Meadows atty denied that for him. So we don't know what happened to one unredacted copy of the doc. Nothing ever got distributed.

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This is another reason why every prosecutor involved with any of these cases needs to be EXTREMELY cautious about plea deals and EXTREMELY cautious about ANY grant of immunity. Despite 2+ years of investigation, it is not at all clear that ALL potential criminality has been identified. A poorly worded plea deal or outright grant of immunity could be delivering a far greater gift than warranted by whatever is being offered as testimony in return.

In general, the entire dymanic around Mark Meadows since the original January 6 committee effort and subsequent federal and state prosecutions is bothersome. Given the deference afforded Meadows with months of back and forth negotiations about testimony, etc., one could conclude Meadows was a lynch pin, the lead make-it-happen figure in the Trump White House, like a Rahm Emmanuel for Obama, a James Baker for Reagan, or in the worst sense a Haldeman for Nixon.

In reality, Meadows was an intellectal and political zero who helped organize the circular firing squad within the Republican caucus known as the Tea Party and chose some of its first targets in seven years serving as a US Representative for North Carolina. The only reason someone of Meadows' caliber and character was inside the White House as Chief of Staff is becase of the caliber and character of the President. No one else would take the position with possibly less than a year in office left, pending an election that was already looking iffy in March 2020 due to COVID's impacts on the economy.

Once in that position, anecdotes from Cassidy Hutchinson indicate Meadows provided no guardrails around the crazies Trump brought on to feed his paranoid, racist theories of election fraud. As Meadows himself indicates, he took it as his job to call the meetings, order the pizzas and catering after hours, etc. Gotta keep the crazy train running on time. Finally, on January 6, Meadows couldn't be disturbed from his doom scrolling on his phone to interrupt Trump during the rioting and assaults on Capital Hill and DC police to prod Trump to publicly call for an end to the violence. Even if he "knew" what Trump's internal mindset was, he had an obligation to the American people to get in front of Trump and DEMAND action.

It sounds perfectly in character for Meadows to have participated in stealing one of the few unredacted copies of an intelligence brief that could provide incontrovertable proof of Trump's willing acceptance of Russian interference in the 2016 election. The idea that prosecutors could be pondering ANY plea deals or immunity deals with someone so undeserving is itself a sign of how flawed the criminal justice system has become.


WTH