Report reveals Mark Meadows likely won’t face charges due to immunity: ex-prosecutor

A former state and federal prosecutor Eric Lisann thinks that a special counsel report indicates that Mark Meadows likely won't face trial for his involvement in the Donald Trump 2020 election trial because he seems to have been given an immunity deal.

ABC News broke the story several weeks ago that Meadows had been working with prosecutors, but it wasn't fully confirmed that he was being given immunity by Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith.

Taking to social media on Tuesday, Lisann said that his reading of a recent New York Times report indicates there is likely a deal.

"Reading the description here of Meadows' involvement with the Special Counsel leads to the conclusion that absent a prior unreported secret agreement to plead guilty to charges, he will not face federal charges due to his extensive testimony pursuant to an immunity order," wrote Lisann.

The reference is to a section of the report that stated that Meadows' testimony against Trump might be a requirement.

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"The possibility that the former president’s closest White House aide — a man with unsurpassed access to Trump during the final months of his presidency — might be seeking to wriggle out of further trouble by supplying damning information to prosecutors, and perhaps even testifying against Trump at trial, suggested a seemingly inescapable choice for Meadows: prison time or career suicide," the Times wrote last week.

When the previous ABC News story broke, Meadows quickly called Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to promise it wasn't true. Jordan told someone about the call, but then told the Times it wasn't real.

A June report revealed that Trump loyalists has begun referring to Meadows with a rat emoji in text message conversations.