Mark Meadows Now Refusing to Sit for Deposition with January 6 Committee

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Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is present refusing to beryllium for a deposition with the House Select Committee tasked with investigating the events of January 6. The determination marks a reversal from an announcement past week that helium would comply with the committee’s subpoena ordering him to appear.

“We agreed to supply thousands of pages of responsive documents and Mr. Meadows was consenting to look voluntarily, not nether compulsion of the Select Committee’s subpoena to him, for a deposition to reply questions astir non-privileged matters. Now actions by the Select Committee person made specified an quality untenable,” George J. Terwilliger III, an lawyer for Meadows, wrote successful the letter obtained by CNN.

“In short, we present person each denotation from the accusation supplied to america past Friday – upon which Mr. Meadows could expect to beryllium questioned – that the Select Committee has nary volition of respecting boundaries concerning Executive Privilege,” helium added, noting that Meadows is inactive consenting to reply written questions.

“Nonetheless, arsenic we person before, we reiterate our willingness to see an interrogatory process of Select Committee written questions and answers from Mr. Meadows truthful that determination mightiness beryllium some an orderly process and a wide grounds of questions and related assertions of privilege wherever appropriate,” Terwilliger wrote.

Members of the prime committee did not instantly respond to requests for remark Tuesday.

Former President Donald Trump and his allies person insisted for months that they person the close to exert enforcement privilege to defy cooperating with the House Select Committee.

Last week, Representative Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) said the committee expects to triumph the Trump enforcement privilege lawsuit.

“We expect a positive result. Our extremity is to nutrient a document, stitchery arsenic much information arsenic imaginable successful those documents from the national archives that volition assistance archer the story of January 5th and January 6th, rallies and insurrection, and assault connected democracy. The much information, the better. That’s wherefore these documents are so important,” helium said astatine the time.