{"id":1992066,"date":"2023-08-05T17:18:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T21:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-jan-6-committee-investigator-says-mark-meadows-more-cooperative-with-jack-smith-due-to-hammer-of-the-doj\/"},"modified":"2023-08-05T17:19:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T21:19:40","slug":"top-jan-6-committee-investigator-says-mark-meadows-more-cooperative-with-jack-smith-due-to-hammer-of-the-doj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-jan-6-committee-investigator-says-mark-meadows-more-cooperative-with-jack-smith-due-to-hammer-of-the-doj\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Jan. 6 Committee investigator: Meadows more cooperative with Smith due to DOJ&#8217;s &#8216;hammer&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/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%2Ftop-jan-6-committee-investigator-says-mark-meadows-more-cooperative-with-jack-smith-due-to-hammer-of-the-doj%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=1992066&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--><h2>The Power Play: Mark Meadows and the \u2062House Jan. 6\u200d Committee<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sleepy-joe-bidens-gang-who-stole-election-postpones-inauguration-rehearsal-claiming-security-threats-obama-advisor-lisa-monaco-to-take-over\/\" title=\"Sleepy Joe Biden\u2019s Gang Postpones Inauguration Rehearsal Claiming Security Threats \u2013 Obama Advisor Lisa Monaco to Take Over\">lead investigator<\/a> for the House Jan. 6 Committee, Tim\u200c Heaphy, recently shed light on the dynamics between former White\u2062 House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Special Counsel \u2064Jack \u2064Smith.\u200c In a captivating appearance on NBC&#8217;s Meet the Press, Heaphy\u200b revealed that Meadows \u2062seemed \u200dto be more cooperative\u2062 with Smith, thanks to the &#8220;hammer&#8221;\u2062 of the Department of \u2062Justice.<\/p>\n<h3>A Tale of Cooperation and Resistance<\/h3>\n<p>Heaphy explained that while Meadows didn&#8217;t fully \u2063cooperate with the House investigation, he appeared to be more willing to \u2062work with Smith. The reason? Smith had a range of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-rips-scotus-orders-federal-crack-down-on-texas-over-heartbeat-law\/\" title=\"Biden Rips SCOTUS, Orders Federal Crack Down On Texas Over \u2018Heartbeat\u2019 Law\">legal tools<\/a> at his disposal, giving him an advantage in \u2063gaining Meadows&#8217; cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>According to Heaphy, \u2062Meadows only provided partial cooperation to the House investigation. \u2064Although he handed \u2062over crucial text messages, he refused to \u200cappear for a deposition despite being subpoenaed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our only option was civil litigation, which takes \u200da while,&#8221; Heaphy\u2063 shared. &#8220;We did not have the time \u2063because we were\u200c on a time clock. We were expiring at the end of the \u200dCongress to take that claim to a judge. We thought it was meritless. But we did not have the enforcement ability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Game of Legal\u200d Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heaphy went on to highlight the stark contrast in\u200d the enforcement abilities \u200bof the \u200dHouse investigation and Special Counsel \u200bSmith. He explained that Smith had the advantage of going directly to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">chief judge<\/a> overseeing the grand jury, who promptly made a ruling. \u200cThis allowed Smith to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-jan-6-committee-investigator-says-mark-meadows-more-cooperative-with-jack-smith-due-to-hammer-of-the-doj\/\" title=\"Top Jan. 6 Committee investigator: Meadows more cooperative with Smith due to DOJ's 'hammer'.\">swiftly \u200bnavigate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-says-it-will-review-9-11-documents-ahead-of-potential-release\/\" title=\"FBI Says It Will Review 9\/11 Documents Ahead Of Potential Release\">privilege assertions<\/a><\/a> and gain access \u200dto information that the House investigation did \u200bnot have.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jack Smith \u200bgoes right upstairs \u200dto the chief judge\u200b who supervises the grand jury, and\u2064 that Judge immediately makes a ruling,&#8221; \u2064Heaphy continued. &#8220;He hears from Meadows&#8217;s lawyer, he hears from the \u200bSpecial Counsel, and\u2062 he \u200dmakes a call and then immediately goes \u200cto the Court of \u2064Appeals on a motion to \u200cstay. So he has that\u200c hammer to sort of quickly push through privilege assertions and he has used that effectively to get access to information\u200b that we did not have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meadows&#8217;s Role in the Indictment<\/p>\n<p>According to the charging\u200c documents, Meadows played a significant role in the indictment. He personally informed former President Donald Trump \u200bthat the verification process of election ballots\u2063 was \u200b&#8221;exemplary.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the House Jan. 6 Committee continues its investigation, the power dynamics\u200c between Meadows, Smith, and the legal tools at their disposal will undoubtedly\u2064 shape\u2062 the course of \u2063the proceedings.<\/p>\n<p><em>Click here for\u200d more from the Washington Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Jan. 6 Committee&#8217;s lead investigator claimed that Mark Meadows, former White House Chief of Staff, was more cooperative with Special Counsel Jack Smith because of the power of the Department of Justice. Tim Heaphy, the committee&#8217;s lead investigator, discussed Meadows&#8217;s involvement in Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1992067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1992066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1992066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1992067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}