Former Donald Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows lost another effort to delay his case in Georgia on Wednesday and a former lead investigator on the Jan. 6 committee thinks it's delaying the inevitable.
Speaking to MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, Tim Heaphy predicted that Meadows will be forced to flip on Trump eventually.
"You have to eventually face the music," said Heaphy, who served as top staff to the House Select Committee investigating the purported attempt to overthrow the 2020 election.
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"He might file an appeal to the Supreme Court. I can't imagine that the Supreme Court would take this case. They take cases if there is a split in courts below or a close question of federal law. There is neither here. I think they would deny a cert petition, and ultimately, Meadows will face the music with a trial presentation in state court in Atlanta. That is where this is headed."
Wallace asked if that was the reason Meadows was acting so frantically.
"It is another attempt to forestall that day," Heaphy explained. "To keep the clock running so that he didn't have to actually have it expire and be sitting in a defendant's chair in that courtroom in front of the jury. It is the playbook for all of them without a substantive defense, delay, delay, and hope that somebody happens that will make the charges go away. But I don't think that is going to happen."
He also told Wallace that it puts greater pressure to cooperate with prosecutors.
"A lot of criminal defendants, ones that seem less likely to cooperate, the ones that are holdouts, once there is no other door to knock upon, once they're all closed, they become really important cooperators," he said. "Because that same strength, that same fidelity to purpose, when it is flipped and the door opens to cooperation, it could be tremendously important."
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