Meadows 'looking at hard time in a Georgia jail' if upcoming hearing flops: ex-US attorney

Ex-United States attorney and Deputy Assistant Attorney General Harry Litman, during an interview with MSNBC Deadline: White House host Nicole Wallace Friday, emphasized the possibility of ex-President Donald Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows doing "hard time in a Georgia jail" if an evidentiary hearing scheduled for Monday, August 28 does not go well for him.

Meadows, who was indicted on August 1 by a Fulton County Superior Court grand jury on August 1 along with the former president and 17 others, has requested that the Georgia case be moved to federal court.

Georgetown University Law Professor Neal Katyal said during a recent MSNBC interview that the judge will likely reject Meadows' "bogus" request.

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During Wallace's conversation with Litman Friday, she asked the ex-prosecutor to explain what to expect from Monday's hearing.

Litman replied, "I think it's really important, Nicole. So Mark Meadows, to date, he's been successfully on the slalom run and he has yet to fall, and he got past the Jan. 6 committee, and it looks as if he also was sort of cooperating in half measure with Smith and January 6. But now, should he lose this hearing and be back in the jaws of the Fulton County proceedings, he's really looking at hard time in a Georgia jail that Trump cannot pardon away. There's maybe a solution for Trump, but not for the other 18."

He continued, "What's important about Monday is, it's an evidentiary hearing. The federal judge has said, 'Ok, show me some evidence why you were really within your official scope of responsibilities.' As you say, Willis is gonna call Raffensperger and his chief investigator, who will say, 'he's obviously pushing me to change an election result, that's against the law.' What is Meadows gonna say to contradict it? Because I think it's pretty clear, he can't testify. He could maybe weave his own way on direct, but he would be clobbered on cross-examination. So he's gonna have to carry his burden with some evidence — real evidence that doesn't include his own testimony, and the stakes for him literally could not be higher. It's the difference between navigating the whoa giant slalom, and maybe coming out clean, and literally a disaster of many years in a Georgia state prison."

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