{"id":1623280,"date":"2022-08-26T12:36:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1623280"},"modified":"2022-08-26T12:36:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:36:41","slug":"georgia-prosecutor-seeking-testimony-from-mark-meadows-sidney-powell-in-2020-election-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-prosecutor-seeking-testimony-from-mark-meadows-sidney-powell-in-2020-election-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Prosecutor Seeking Testimony From Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell in 2020 Election Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorgia-prosecutor-seeking-testimony-from-mark-meadows-sidney-powell-in-2020-election-probe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1623280&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Georgia district attorney investigating former President Donald Trump and his allies for challenging the results of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-2020-election\">2020 election<\/a> has filed a petition seeking testimony from former White House Chief of Staff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-mark-meadows\">Mark Meadows<\/a>, according to court documents obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/08\/25\/mark-meadows-ordered-to-testify-in-fulton-county-probe-of-trump-election-overturn-efforts-00053817\">Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Fani Willis, a Democrat,\u00a0ordered Meadows\u00a0to appear\u00a0for a Sept. 27 interview, documents state.<\/p>\n<p>Willis is also seeking\u00a0testimony from other Trump allies, including ex-campaign lawyer\u00a0Sidney Powell\u00a0and retired U.S. Army Col. James Waldron.<\/p>\n<p>Meadows,\u00a0a Republican, served as a House representative for North Carolina from 2013 to 2020 when he resigned to join the Trump administration as\u00a0White House chief of staff.<\/p>\n<p>In the court filing,\u00a0Willis wrote that Meadows is a \u201cnecessary and material witness\u201d to the investigation due to his affiliation with Trump and the Trump campaign and the fact that he was in \u201cconstant contact\u201d with the former president in the weeks following the November 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>In the court filing (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000182-d6c4-db61-a1fb-ffc6a1b00000\">pdf<\/a>), Willis said that\u00a0Meadows attended a meeting at the White House with Trump and other members of Congress where they discussed \u201callegations of voter fraud and the certification of the electoral college votes from Georgia and other states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She pointed to a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markmeadows\/status\/1341157317451124745\">Dec. 21 tweet<\/a> where he stated that \u201cseveral members of Congress just finished a meeting in the Oval Office with President Trump,\u00a0preparing to fight back against mounting evidence of voter fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Willis also cited emails Meadows sent to Justice Department officials in which he made \u201callegations of voter fraud in Georgia and elsewhere\u201d and a phone call that he participated in along with Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in January 2021 in which they discussed alleged voter fraud in Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>Willis says that during the call, Trump said he wanted to find the nearly 12,000 votes needed to win the state.<\/p>\n<p>Meadows was also present<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Georgia district attorney investigating former President Donald Trump and his allies for challenging the results of the 2020 election has filed a petition seeking testimony from former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, according to court documents obtained by Politico. Prosecutor Fani Willis, a Democrat,\u00a0ordered Meadows\u00a0to appear\u00a0for a Sept. 27 interview, documents state. 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