Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff will no longer co-operate with the congressional committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, in a U-turn that underscores the growing rancour between the former president’s allies and lawmakers.
Bennie Thompson, the Democrat chairing the January 6 select committee, said last month that Mark Meadows had been “engaging” with the panel of lawmakers through his lawyer, and had provided records to the committee and would provide a deposition following a congressional subpoena.
But George Terwilliger, Meadows’s lawyer, indicated on Tuesday that his client would no longer be co-operating, accusing the committee of not operating in “good faith”. In a letter sent to Thompson and obtained by the Financial Times, Terwilliger said the committee “had no intention of respecting boundaries concerning executive privilege”.
Terwilliger and a spokesperson for the…
