Meadows Pressed Justice Dept. to Investigate Election Fraud Claims

Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows pushed DOJ to investigate baseless election fraud claims

Matthew Dowd, chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2004, reacts to a New York Times report that Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump's White House chief of staff, pushed the Department of Justice in his boss' last days in office to investigate unproven conspiracy theories and fraud claims about the 2020 presidential election.

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Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows pushed DOJ to investigate baseless election fraud claims

Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump's White House chief of staff, pushed the Department of Justice in his boss' last weeks in office to investigate baseless conspiracy theories and fraud