According to an ABC News report, former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has spoken with federal investigators and told them that he doesn’t believe the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump—contradicting claims he made in his 2021 book, The Chief’s Chief.
The report claims that Meadows is cooperating with Jack Smith, the special counsel behind the federal prosecution of Trump. The former president was indicted on conspiracy and obstruction charges related to his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.
ABC says that Smith granted Meadows immunity in exchange for testimony to a grand jury. Meadows allegedly told prosecutors that claims of voter fraud in the election lacked evidence to support them.
This contradicts passages in The Chief’s Chief, published almost two years ago by All Seasons Press. A critic for Kirkus called the memoir “a Trump idolator’s dream book. Everyone else should stay far away.”
In the book, Meadows wrote that the election was “stolen” and there was “actual evidence of fraud, right there in plain sight for anyone to access and analyze.”
But this year he told investigators that he had not seen any evidence of fraud and that, contrary to what he wrote in the book, the Justice Department had investigated all claims in good faith and couldn’t find anything that would support them.
Meadows, along with Trump, is one of 19 co-defendants in a criminal case in Georgia related to alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. He has pleaded not guilty.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
