(Ken Silva, Headline USA) On the heels of a report this week that Donald Trump’s former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, spoke with Special Counsel Jack Smith at least three times in the past year, Meadows has further been outed as an FBI informant who wore a wire to spy on the President while he was in office.
That allegation comes from Students for Trump founder Ryan Fournier, who said on Twitter that he’s confirmed his information with multiple members of Congress and other confidential informants.
“Mark Meadows worked for the FBI as an informant and wore a wire to record all conversations with President Trump, while he was the Chief of Staff to him. This is not only unconstitutional, but it’s criminal,” he said.
BREAKING: Allegedly Mark Meadows worked for the FBI as an informant and wore a wire to record all conversations with President Trump, while he was the Chief of Staff to him.
This is not only unconstitutional, but it’s criminal. This is the government we live with. It’s up to us…
— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) October 26, 2023
“This is worse than Watergate. This is going to be the destruction of the FBI.”
Fournier’s allegations follow an ABC News report from Tuesday about Meadows speaking with Special Counsel Smith.
Rumors of Meadows’s defection from Team Trump have persisted ever since his subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee in 2021.
Meadows was one of three Trump advisers charged by the Democrat House with “contempt of Congress” for reluctance to comply with the sham Star-Chamber investigation. But unlike Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, he was never charged by the Justice Department due to his eventual cooperation.
Sources close to the matter said specifically that Meadows was granted immunity if he would agree to testify before a grand jury.
According to those same sources, Meadows repeatedly emphasized to Smith and his legal team that he tried to persuade Trump that the 2020 election voter-fraud allegations had no basis.
“Obviously we didn’t win,” Meadows reportedly told Smith, calling Trump’s rhetoric after the election “dishonest.”
Despite the longstanding murmurs, Meadows’s betrayal of Trump hits hard, especially given that Trump has, in the past, referred to Meadows as a “special friend” and “a great chief of staff—as good as it gets.”
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
