Mark Meadows' document-burning spree proves he knew they really lost: ex-Trump official
The fact that former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows allegedly burned huge stacks of documents in the final days of the Trump administration is a clear indicator, if true, that he didn't believe the false claims he was making about the 2020 presidential election.
That's the position of former Trump White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin, who broke down the significance of the claim made in January 6 witness Cassidy Hutchinson's new book.
"The New York Times is reporting — she writes about Mark Meadows burning so many documents in the waning days of the administration that Meadows' wife complained to Hutchinson about how expensive it had become to dry clean the, quote, 'bonfire smell from the suits,'" said anchor Anderson Cooper.
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"So the Chief of Staff's office has a lovely fireplace in it," said Griffin. "My understanding is that in those final days — by the way, publicly Mark Meadows and others were saying there's not going to be a transition, Donald Trump won the election — they seemed to be getting ready knowing a transition was coming. He was burning paperwork."
Griffin admitted that she isn't trained in law. However, she added, "I was subject to the Federal Records Act, which required that any presidential documents, even if they're not classified, even if they're not sensitive — you're required to archive. Even at a minimum, that's a basic violation of that. But who knows the actual contents of them."
"Just the fact he was doing this, while at the same time they were, the president had actually won, they weren't leaving office, kind of, shows he knew he didn't."
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