The criminal case against Donald Trump and Mark Meadows in Georgia has largely stalled since Meadows began his fight for the records in March. | Alex Brandon/APsince May to turn over massive troves of phone records, emails, text messages and other documents from his time as Trump’s top aide in the White House.
Meadows says that obtaining his White House records will help disprove claims that he was conspiring to overturn the 2020 election results and was rather an active participant in the transition from Trump to Joe Biden, as well as focused on his other government duties. His attorney indicated in one filing that he had “informal inquiries” with both NARA and Smith’s team and that they “will not produce those records without a court order.
The National Archives contended the broad swaths of records could not be reasonably connected to his criminal defense in Georgia since many of them significantly pre-date the alleged crime. The criminal case against Trump and Meadows in Georgia has largely stalled since Meadows began his fight for the records in March. Georgia’s appeals court froze the case in May amid an effort by Trump and his allies to disqualify Willis over a purported conflict of interest.