'The jig is up' for GOP leaders after Mark Meadows revelation: Post reporter

Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows has reportedly accepted an immunity deal with the Justice Department in the 2020 election case, ABC News reported on Tuesday afternoon.

Speaking about it on MSNBC, Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig said that another major piece of the puzzle is that Meadows' autobiography has been the source used by other lawmakers to justify their opinions around the 2020 election.

She explained that it was assumed that Mark Meadows was working with special counsel Jack Smith. In fact, in June, those in Trump World began referring to him using a rat emoji in text messages, assuming he'd flipped. But Leonnig explained that Meadows appears to have also given Smith an account of what he participated in in the run-up to the Jan. 6 attack and after.

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That includes "many of the people helping him write his book, [who] happened upon a conversation with Donald Trump in which he revealed how he used classified information and pointed out classified information that he had with them on site. A whole other story for another day."

"We have seen texts and exchanges that Mark Meadows had with people in the White House counsel's office and other lawyers in which he made fun of the claim that there was an election that had been stolen," she continued. "There was fraud enough in states such as Georgia to call those counts into question. As I remember one of those text exchanges, he said even my son hasn't found enough dead people that voted in Georgia to raise questions about this. So, it's pretty powerful stuff."

That's when she brought up the autobiography, noting that if full pieces of it are false when he discusses the election lie, it says a lot about other Republican leaders.

"If he's acknowledging that those were false, it reveals to most of us reporters who have been covering this for a long time that the jig is up for a host of other Republican leaders who have been trading on this story, to stay connected to voters, that they think are riled up about this," said Leonnig. "To stay connected to a group of people that they are misleading in order to get their votes. People who gobble up conspiracy theories, distrust the government, and can be loosely misled and led astray."

She went on to characterize it as a "crack in the dam."

"But it will be really interesting to watch what happens for other Republican leaders who have insisted that the election was stolen. Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz, Jim Jordan, a host of people, many of whom are closely tied to Mark Meadows and Donald Trump," she closed.

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