Mark Meadows Flipping on Donald Trump Is 'Game Over'—Legal Expert
Donald Trump would be in serious legal trouble if speculation that his former chief of staff,
Mark Meadows, is co-operating with Special Counsel Jack Smith's investigation turned out to be correct, a legal expert has said.
Former Defense Department special counsel Ryan Goodman was reacting to a
CNN report on how Meadows is continuing to work his influence in Washington D.C., including by advising GOP lawmakers on the ongoing debt-ceiling negotiation.
The report adds that Meadows is no longer in communication with the former president, even though he is considered a key figure in Smith's criminal probe into Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election results.
An unnamed source connected to Trump told CNN they are in the dark about whether Meadows is cooperating with the federal investigation, or if Meadows is a target of a criminal probe himself.
"We've all heard the same rumors," one Trump adviser told CNN. "No one really knows what he's doing though."
While sharing a CNN link on
Twitter, Goodman tweeted: "If he's cooperating, it's game over."
Meadows has long been thought of as a potential key witness in the federal probe looking into Trump's actions in and around January 6 and the former president's attempts to overturn the 2020 Election.
Meadows was with Trump on January 6 as the insurrection was unfolding and he was said to be a key figure in the post-2020 election events.
Meadows was also said to have been in direct communication with organizers of "stop the steal" protest, which took place in D.C. on January 6 in 2021, prior to the riot.
It was previously reported that Meadows had been subpoenaed by Smith to testify in front of a special grand jury as part of the investigation into the events that led up to the January 6 attack.
