Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, may have damaged a key defense in the former president’s legal case over handling classified documents.
ABC News reports that Meadows is alleged to have informed Special Counsel Jack Smith that he had no knowledge of Trump’s intention to declassify sensitive documents before he left the White House in 2021, nor was he aware of any “standing order” authorizing the 77-year-old to automatically declassify sensitive information removed from Washington D.C.
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Importantly, Meadows is one of the 19 suspects charged with election interference in Georgia, but has not been indicted as part of Smith’s classified document probe.
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