Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows responded Wednesday to an announcement from the two leaders of the Congressional Select Committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot that the panel will continue to pursue contempt of Congress charges against him, even in light of a civil suit filed against the committee and nancy-pelosi” target=”_blank”>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<, and the Republican ranking member, Wyoming Rep. Elizabeth Cheney, said Meadows’ lawsuit won’t change their plans.
“Mr. Meadows’s flawed lawsuit won’t succeed at slowing down the Select Committee’s investigation or stopping us from getting the information we’re seeking,” Thompson and Cheney said. “The Select Committee will meet next week to advance a report recommending that the House cite Mr. Meadows for contempt of Congress and refer him to the Department of Justice for prosecution.”
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“[T]hey are doing a fishing expedition,” he said of the committee. “It’s broadly believed that they’ve issued more subpoenas in the last two months than they have in the last decade.”
He said that Pelosi and Thompson are breaking recent precedent in that House Speakers of both parties have been otherwise “very judicious” in the serving of subpoenas, until now.
Ingraham later remarked that instead of Meadows’ communications, she and many Americans would like to see Pelosi’s communications with New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer from that day.
