<ul class="summary-list"><li>Some of <keyword id="81337" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Frank-Warren">Frank Warren</keyword>'s best prospect fighters return to the ring Saturday for another of his pandemic-era fight cards at Church House in Westminster, London.</li><li>Warren hailed the fun and flashy super bantamweight traveller fighter <keyword id="10362136" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dennis-mccann">Dennis McCann</keyword> and compared the teenager to the all-time great puncher Prince Naseem Hamed.</li><li>The <keyword id="6362171" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Boxing">boxing</keyword> promoter also likened the Scottish boxer <keyword id="10362137" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="willy-hutchinson">Willy Hutchinson</keyword> to the former two-weight champion Joe Calzaghe, who retired undefeated in 2009.</li></ul>LONDON — Young fighters compared to Joe Calzaghe and Prince Naseem Hamed will be unleashed once again Saturday, according to Frank Warren — the boxing promoter who represents the young talents.Warren has been in the fight game for decades, nurturing the careers of three British greats Calzaghe, Hamed, Ricky Hatton, as well as the current WBC heavyweight champion Tyson Fury.The veteran boxing executive, 68, also has a number of prospects in his stable and is holding an event at Church House in Westminster, London, to further showcase what he hopes are his stars of the future.This author noticed one of his young athletes when ringside covering a boxing event at London's 02 Arena last year, and commented that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/archie-sharp-and-dennis-mccann-results-02-arena-boxing-2019-7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the future of British boxing is in good hands with Dennis McCann</a> — 18 at the time.Speaking to Insider last week, Warren said McCann's "future is very bright."He said: "Dennis is absolutely dedicated to the sport. All he wants to do is fight. He's a fighting man. He's so committed."McCann is a baby-faced assassin who throws punches in bunches from awkward angles until he secures a TV-friendly, highlight-reel knockout.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-the-tyson-fury-english-traveller-boxing-style-2019-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Insider previously reported</a> that McCann is part of the new generation of boxers from British and Irish travelling communities looking to become the next Fury.McCann's head coach Alan Smith told Insider last year that McCann is a "mini superstar" already.Smith said: "He's got a bit of everything. He's marketable, brash, brave, can punch a little bit. As a whole, he's very near the complete package. He's got cockiness, loves the crowd, and the camera loves him."McCann has won all seven of his pro bouts to date and puts his undefeated record on the line on Warren's weekend show as he fights Pedro Matos in a super bantamweight match.It is likely a bout McCann will not only win but look good doing so, as Warren, like Smith, sees that brashness which goes along with his skillset.Warren regards McCann's unorthodox style so highly he compared it to Prince Naseem's — <a href="https://www.liveabout.com/ring-magazine-top-punchers-of-all-time-424118" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a fighter hailed as one of boxing's all-time great punchers by The Ring magazine</a>."He reminds of me a young Naseem," said Warren. "His confidence, power, and the angles he finds. I think if he's doing what he's doing, he'll go all the way. He's a superb fighter."<h2>Warren also spoke highly of Willy Hutchinson</h2><div type="image" title="Willy Hutchinson" height="1333" width="1778" msid="79510004" hostid="261"></div>Another young fighter on Warren's weekend bill is Willy Hutchinson, who has 13 wins to date and competes against Lennox Clarke for the vacant British and Commonwealth super middleweight titles.Hutchinson, 22, has been kept active through the year despite the coronavirus pandemic, fighting in February before two behind-closed-door bouts at BT Sport's East London studios.His national title fight with Clarke will be his third bout behind-closed-doors, and Warren likely expects him to shine as he compared the Scotsman to the unbeaten former two-weight world champion Joe Calzaghe, from Wales."I like Willy Hutchinson as he's a special fighter," Warren said. "He reminds me of a young, Joe Calzaghe. He's got those skills."Two of Warren's best-emerging fighters endured contrasting results of late.While <a href="https://www.insider.com/watch-denzel-bentley-retire-mark-heffron-to-win-british-title-2020-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Denzel Bentley won the British middleweight title with a thumping performance</a> earlier in the month, Warren's up-and-coming heavyweight Daniel Dubois suffered an upset loss to Joe Joyce on Saturday.Dubois was jabbed with punching so unrelenting and precise that <a href="https://www.insider.com/joe-joyces-relentless-face-jabbing-sent-daniel-dubois-to-hospital-2020-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joyce forced a grotesque bruise around his eye to swell shut, before sending Dubois to hospital in agony</a> with a broken orbital bone.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Alan Dawson (@AlanDawsonSport) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1333084722013106178?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2020</a></blockquote>Two of Warren's other highly-regarded prospects fought well on the night Dubois lost.24-year-old heavyweight David Adeleye extended his undefeated pro record to four wins (four knockouts), while red-hot super welterweight Hamzah Sheerez stopped Guido Nicolas Pitto late in the 10th and final round of the co-main event.Warren called Adeleye a good, strong, kid, and said Sheerez is "an outstanding prospect.""He'll go on to be something special."Read more:<a href="https://www.insider.com/black-nba-players-shouldnt-mock-nate-robinson-floyd-mayweather-said-2020-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">'No Black NBA player should make a mockery' of knocked out Nate Robinson, Floyd Mayweather said</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/mma-fighters-respond-positively-to-jake-pauls-boxing-challenge-2020-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2 well-known MMA fighters have responded positively to Jake Paul's challenge to meet him in the boxing ring</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/mike-tyson-landed-more-punches-roy-jones-earned-draw-2020-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Tyson smoked a joint before the Roy Jones Jr. exhibition, threw 193 punches in 16 minutes, and said he'd do it all again</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/roy-jones-said-his-body-hurts-everywhere-mike-tyson-hit-2020-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roy Jones Jr. said his body hurts everywhere Mike Tyson landed a punch: 'He is capable of fighting anybody'</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/joe-joyces-relentless-face-jabbing-sent-daniel-dubois-to-hospital-2020-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Dubois was sent to hospital with a broken orbital bone one day after making a bad joke about his opponent's blind mother</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/jake-paul-scored-a-highlight-reel-ko-for-the-ages-2020-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jake Paul scored a highlight-reel knockout for the ages when he left Nate Robinson face-down on the canvas in the second round</a><a href="https://www.insider.com/mike-tyson-boxing-should-be-thankful-for-youtuber-jake-paul-2020-11" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mike Tyson said boxing should be thankful for YouTubers and that creators like Jake Paul should be given a belt</a>

2 young fighters compared to Joe Calzaghe and Prince Naseem Hamed will be unleashed Saturday, boxing promoter Frank Warren said

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson is cooperating with Georgia district attorney Fani Willis.</li><li>Hutchinson told January 6 investigators about Donald Trump's efforts to undo the 2020 election. </li></ul>Following her explosive testimony to the January 6 select committee about what Donald Trump was doing while MAGA rioters swarmed the US Capitol, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson is now cooperating with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' probe into Trump's alleged election meddling in Georgia.Hutchinson, who's damning testimony rocked <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trumpworld-reaction-cassidy-hutchinson-january-6-testimony-2022-6">MAGA loyalists</a> and the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/house-january-6-hearing-donald-trump-legal-exposure-violence-2022-6">legal community</a> during the sixth <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/january-6-committee">public hearing</a> by House lawmakers investigating the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/january-6-oral-history-capitol-attack-insurrection-timeline-investigation-2021-10">deadly attack on Congress</a>, has agreed to share what she knows about Trump and her then-boss Mark Meadows working to overturn the 2020 election, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/10/politics/cassidy-hutchinson-cooperation-trump-investigation/index.html">reports</a>. Willis has been trying to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meadows-called-to-testify-about-trumps-attempt-to-overturn-election-2022-8">get Meadows to testify</a> for months, but the former Trump White House chief of staff has yet to cooperate. Meadows was on the January 2021 call when Trump asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" the 11,780 votes the embattled former president would have needed to invalidate Joe Biden's lawful victory. While Willis recently said that her investigation is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-georgia-indictments-2020-election-interference-expected-by-december-2022-10">going dark</a> to avoid interfering with the upcoming midterm elections, tapping into Hutchinson's experiences with Meadows may help her fill in some blanks about what role Trump, Meadows and other administration officials played in the ensuing electoral chaos. "If indicted and convicted, people are facing prison sentences," Willis <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fulton-county-da-says-georgia-probe-could-lead-to-prison-sentences-2022-9">said</a> in September. Hutchinson guided January 6 investigators through all the election-related mayhem she witnessed, including raucous meetings with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cassidy-hutchinson-texted-west-wing-is-unhinged-trump-january-6-2022-7">"unhinged" 2020 election deniers</a>, how Meadows allegedly <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-meadows-cassidy-hutchinson-trump-white-house-capitol-riot-2022-6">sat idly by as rioters assaulted US Capitol Police</a>, and that Trump allegedly <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-lunged-at-driver-while-demanding-to-be-taken-to-capitol-on-jan-6-2022-6">lunged at a Secret Service agent</a> and demanded to be taken to the US Capitol after firing up his supporters at that morning's "Stop the Steal" rally. Trump, who initially wrote Hutchinson off as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cassidy-hutchinson-bad-news-hardly-know-her-january-6-2022-6">someone he hardly knew</a>, recently said that he had to think twice about denouncing her story because it <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cassidy-hutchinson-secret-service-account-made-him-look-tough-2022-10">made him sound tough</a>.

Cassidy Hutchinson, who delivered bombshell testimony about Trump's conduct on Jan. 6, agrees to cooperate with Georgia prosecutor investigating 2020 election tampering: report

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Gov. Hutchinson said that sending troops to the border using private funds sets "a bad precedent."</li><li>"This is a state function," he told host Dana Bash on CNN's "State of the Union."</li><li>Gov. Noem received a donation to be used to aid in efforts at the <keyword id="399516" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="US-Mexico-border">US-Mexico border</keyword>.</li></ul>GOP Gov. <keyword id="1495347" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Asa-Hutchinson">Asa Hutchinson</keyword> of Arkansas on Sunday said that deploying a state's <keyword id="367961" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="national-guard">National Guard</keyword> troops to the US-Mexico border using private funds sets "a bad precedent."<a href="https://twitter.com/justinbaragona/status/1411679891528036352">During an interview</a> on CNN's "State of the Union," anchor Dana Bash asked Hutchinson about fellow Republican Gov. <keyword id="3850941" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Kristi-Noem">Kristi Noem</keyword>'s <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kristi-noem-national-guard-troops-mexico-border-private-donation-2021-6">decision to use a donation</a> from Tennessee billionaire Willis Johnson to send 50 South Dakota National Guard members to the border.Last week, Hutchinson <a href="https://twitter.com/AsaHutchinson/status/1409989569332846592">announced</a> hat he would deploy National Guard troops from Arkansas to the border, the latest salvo in a national GOP-push to highlight the surge <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/over-171000-migrants-were-apprehended-at-us-border-in-march-2021-4">in attempted migrant border crossings</a> in recent months. However, Hutchinson is not using private funding and chided Noem for doing so."Would you use a political donation to send your troops to the border?" Bash asked."Not for this purpose," Hutchinson replied. "This is a state function. It is something that we respond to other states in terms of disaster."He added: "I would consider it a bad precedent to have it privately funded. Now, whenever you are looking at supplemental pay for some state employees, we use private foundation money, so it is not an across-the-board rule against that."<blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">-Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1411679891528036352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 4, 2021</a></blockquote>Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-hill-congress-second-jobs-postmates-jcrew-doordash-budget-salary-2021-6">Capitol Hill staffers describe the second jobs and side gigs they have to take to survive on low pay, from delivering takeout to bartending</a>Johnson directed the funding to South Dakota through his family's foundation and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/us/politics/noem-south-dakota-troops-donation.html">told The New York Times last week</a> that he wanted to aid security efforts at the border."You've got illegals coming in and I just think they ought to follow the rules of America," he told the newspaper. "South Dakota is a small state. They want to help America, I want to help them."Noem, a former congresswoman who is seen as a potential 2024 GOP presidential candidate, <a href="https://news.yahoo.com/noem-gop-donors-1m-national-035612121.html">said that the $1 million donation</a> from Johnson came as "a surprise."In sending the troops to the border, the governor continues to raise her national profile among conservative voters."The border is a national security crisis that requires the kind of sustained response only the National Guard can provide," she said last week. "We should not be making our own communities less safe by sending our police or Highway Patrol to fix a long-term problem President [Joe] Biden's Administration seems unable or unwilling to solve."Last month, GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, another possible 2024 presidential aspirant, <a href="https://www.flgov.com/2021/06/25/governor-ron-desantis-deploys-state-law-enforcement-to-secure-southern-border/">deployed</a> state law enforcement officers to the border.

Arkansas governor says that fellow GOP Gov. Kristi Noem set 'a bad precedent' in using private funds to send National Guard to US-Mexico border

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Mark Meadows has been indicted for helping to pressure Georgia to declare Trump the winner.</li><li>Trump's final chief of staff had avoided serious legal repercussions until Monday.</li></ul>Mark Meadows, a Freedom Caucus conservative who rose to become Donald Trump's final chief of staff, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/georgia-trump-indictment-unsealed-read-full-text-charges-2023-8">will face a criminal indictment</a> in Georgia alongside former president.Fulton County District Attorney Fanni Willis unveiled her sprawling indictment late Monday evening, ending Meadows' run thus far of successfully ducking some of the legal serious legal liability that others in Trump's orbit have faced stemming from their actions that took place during the waning weeks of his presidency.It means Meadows may soon join HR Haldeman, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/stories/halobit.htm">Nixon's self-dubbed "son of a bitch</a>," in infamy among those who held one of the most powerful posts in the federal government, Chief of Staff. Haldeman, of course, faced prison time over his role in trying to cover up the Watergate break-in.According to the indictment, Meadows, like each one of his fellow co-defendants, is facing <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-rico-charge-meaning-racketeering-definition-2023-8">a violation of Georgia's RICO law</a>. He is also facing an additional count related to his participation in Trump's January 2, 2021 call with George Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger during which Trump pressured Raffensperger to "find" enough votes so he could win.Meadows' other conduct is mentioned throughout the indictment. In particular, Willis zeroed in on Meadows' efforts to reach state lawmakers in Pennsylvania. Willis later told reporters that the grand jury believed conduct outside of her jurisdiction helped furthered the conspiracy she alleged. Meadows was not one of the unindicted co-conspirators in special counsel Jack Smith's indictment related to conduct after the election, leading to speculation that the former chief of staff could be assisting the federal investigation.The Justice Department previously decided not to pursue contempt charges against Meadows after he stopped cooperating with the House January 6 committee. Meadows initially turned over thousands of text messages that became key exhibits in the committee's public hearings. Cassidy Hutchinson, one of Meadows' former top aides, was a key witness for the panel. She described <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-meadows-cassidy-hutchinson-trump-white-house-capitol-riot-2022-6">a virtually nonchalant chief of staff</a> as rioters ransacked the US Capitol.A spokesperson for Meadows did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Mark Meadows, Trump's former White House chief of staff, will face his first post-2020 election-related indictment in Georgia

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Donald Trump has a growing number of former allies that may soon become state witnesses.</li><li>The news that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is cooperating should concern Trump.</li></ul>Former President Donald Trump's growing legal problems may be about to get a whole lot worse.Each day, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/flipped-on-trump-georgia-indictment-documents-case-fraud-trial-2023">another former lawyer or official appears to flip on Trump</a>. ABC News and Bloomberg reported on Monday that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-meadows-testified-election-not-stolen-immunity-trump-reports-2023-10">is cooperating</a> with special counsel Jack Smith's probe, a development that would be by far the worse among a string of former allies that have turned to would-be state's witnesses. While Trump may soon claim to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/people-trump-said-he-didnt-know-but-did-photos">"hardly know" any of them</a>, his glaring problem is that they know a lot about him. If they were to share it, the constriction of <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-indictment-total-charges-counts-2023-8">the 91 criminal charges</a> will start to feel a lot tighter. "The walls to some extent are caving in on him more and more," Mark Bederow, a criminal defense lawyer and former prosecutor for the Manhattan district attorney's office, told Insider on Wednesday. "When all of your lawyers and associates are pleading guilty and providing some degree of cooperation about the conspiracy and your alleged role in it, it's never a good thing to defend it."The good news for Trump is that politically, he is nearing a glide path to recapturing the Republican Party's presidential nomination. As his harshest critics have suggested, Trump's campaign may increasingly turn into a legal survival mechanism.Legally speaking, the Meadows news is a prime example of the problems ahead. Cassidy Hutchinson, one of his former top aides, became <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cassidy-hutchinson-back-out-bombshell-testimony-jan-6-hearing-enough-2023-9">the January 6 committee's star</a> by detailing everything she was aware of based on her conversations with him.But Meadows was ultimately the one in the Oval Office with Trump. It was Meadows who helped arranged the infamous phone call to Georgia Secretary of State <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/brad-raffensperger-russia-travel-ban-sanctions-ukraine-2020-election-georgia-2023-5">Brad Raffensperger</a>. And it was Meadows who members of Congress turned to beg Trump to call rioters ransacking the Capitol on January 6 to go home. For all we have learned about the efforts to overturn the 2020 election and Trump's inaction as the Capitol was under siege, Meadows could still say more."You're talking about somebody who was in the room," Bederow said. "These are people that presumably are part of the conversations and could to some extent have direct evidence over what was being said to Trump and what Trump was saying and what he knew and all of that, which could be devastating to him in many of these cases."Thus far, most of the investigations into Trump, especially his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, have relied on lower-ranking aides. In Washington, DC, parlance "the principals" have sat on the sidelines. Even Vice President Mike Pence <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pence-rejects-testifying-january-6-committee-terrible-precedent-trump-riot-2022-11">refused</a> to testify to the House committee, deferring to his top aides to tell the panel about what it was like for his own running mate to be indifferent about people wanting to hang him. But Pence too has reportedly spoken with Smith's team.They are far from the only new MAGA expats.Three other former attorneys — Jenna Ellis, Sidney Powell, Kenneth Chesebro — have all agreed to plea deals with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Willis previously <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/georgia-trump-indictment-unsealed-read-full-text-charges-2023-8">issued a sweeping indictment </a>against Trump and his allies for trying to overturn Georgia's 2020 presidential election results. Among those, Ellis might be the most worrisome for Trump. She was a key figure in his election challenges, working closely with former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Giuliani, who claims he is struggling to pay his mounting legal bills, can't feel great about Ellis' decision either.There's also the original Trump flipper, his former fixer <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cohen-ny-fraud-trial-cage-match-its-on-2023-10">Michael Cohen,</a> who testified in Trump's civil fraud trial on Tuesday. Cohen, who went to prison, is thoroughly enjoying his rebirth as one of the former president's harshest critics and spiller of former secrets. While Bederow called Cohen a "horrible witness" because he previously pleaded guilty to making false statements, Meadows and Ellis could prove to be much better options for prosecutors. "Meadows and Ellis — this is bad and there's no way to spin that," Bederow said.

All the people starting to turn on Trump are really starting to add up

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Mark Meadows' alleged crimes are worse than Watergate figure HR "Bob Haldeman," an expert says.</li><li>Chris Whipple, an expert on White House chiefs of staff, said it was entirely predictable how Meadows got indicted.</li></ul>Mark Meadows' alleged crimes have now squarely secured his place in history among the most infamous White House chief of staff, an expert on the powerful post told Insider. "For Mark Meadows, it's really a day of reckoning that's been coming for a long time," Chris Whipple, whose book <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?amazonTrackingID=biauto-60432-20&amp;h=a8fe53e1eb99c71cef78f3ca9e1960e07a4e2d7741b0cd550c5458ed59aefe89&amp;postID=64dbc416e64f191fc5ea9312&amp;site=bi&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGatekeepers-White-Chiefs-Define-Presidency%2Fdp%2F0804138249">Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency</a> is considered the tome on the subject, told Insider. Meadows, Whipple added, "may be on the same track" as Nixon White House chief of staff HR "Bob" Haldeman to become the second former White House chief of staff to serve prison time. Haldeman served 18 months in a minimum-security federal prison for his role in the botched Watergate cover-up.It is a stunning fall for Meadows, a former North Carolina congressman, who as NBC's Stephanie Ruhle <a href="https://twitter.com/SRuhle/status/1691474532115079168?s=20">summed up</a>, went from giving up an influential perch in Congress to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/06/us/politics/mark-meadows-coronavirus.html">contracting COVID-19</a>, possibly from Trump, and now facing serious charges over his role in trying to overturn the election. Whipple said Meadows stands accused of doing far worse things than Haldeman, who was convicted of perjury, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice. "It's really because from being complicit in Donald Trump's attempt to pretend there was no pandemic with disastrous results to a conspiracy to overthrow a free and fair election, Meadows was absolutely a key if not the key player," Whipple said. "I think in particular when it comes to the attempt to overthrow the election, he was in it up to his eyeballs."Fulton County District Attorney charged Meadows, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-criminal-cases-ranked-how-much-legal-trouble-2023-8">former President Donald Trump</a>, and 16 other co-defendants with <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-rico-charge-meaning-racketeering-definition-2023-8">violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) statute</a> in their efforts to try to overturn the state's 2020 presidential election results. Meadows is also facing a separate charge for his participation in Trump's infamous call to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. During their conversation, then-President Trump pressured Raffensperger "to find 11,780 votes."Whipple spoke to Insider in the wake of Meadows' criminal indictment. Whipple has regarded the North Carolina Republican harshly before, most recently referring to Meadows as Trump's "lapdog." Nonetheless, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-meadows-worst-chief-of-staff-january-6-chris-whipple-2022-6">as someone who has interviewed dozens of former chiefs of staff</a>, Whipple knows what it takes to fulfill what former chief James Baker has called <a href="https://www.npr.org/2017/04/04/522632374/book-examines-17-gatekeepers-into-the-white-houses-inner-workings">"the second most powerful job in Washington."</a>"He became the chief of staff Trump desperately wanted, he was the ultimate sycophant," Whipple said of Meadows. "There was no command no matter how sketchy or even illegal evidently that Meadows wouldn't happily carry it out. And now we see where that leads."A representative for Meadows did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. Willis told reporters Monday evening that Meadows and the other co-defendants have until August 25 to surrender to Georgia authorities. <div type="image" title="Donald Trump, Mark Meadows" height="2894" width="5788" msid="102753786" hostid="261" sizebytes="303444"></div>Meadows, as Whipple has said before, faced the thankless task of trying to be Trump's chief of staff. The former president churned through a historic rate of chiefs in his single term. Even by that standard, Whipple said Meadows still fell short."I think being Donald Trump's White House chief of staff was Mission Impossible," Whipple said. "Meadows is not the only one who failed, he's just the one who failed most spectacularly."Cassidy Hutchinson, one of Meadows' top aides, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-meadows-worst-chief-of-staff-january-6-chris-whipple-2022-6">painted a damning portrait of Trump's final chief of staff</a> to the House January 6 committee. Meadows initially turned over some documents to the committee, but he was later held in contempt after he stopped cooperating. Special counsel Jack Smith has thus far only charged Trump for his efforts to overturn the election. Meadows is also not among the other unindicted co-conspirators in Smith's case, leading to speculation that the former chief of staff could be cooperating with federal investigators.Whatever the case may be, Whipple said at this point that Meadows can only redeem his reputation if he cooperates with the investigations."If I were Mark Meadows I would tell my attorney to get on the phone with Fani Willis and offer to cooperate here and tell her everything he knows," Whipple said. "I think that would be something he could do that would salvage his place in history, because otherwise, as I say, he goes down as the worst White House chief without a doubt."

Mark Meadows' alleged crimes are far worse than Nixon hatchet man HR Haldeman's, says expert on White House chiefs of staff

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The Georgia DA investigating Trump called for testimony from Mark Meadows.</li><li>Fani Willis ordered Trump's former Chief of Staff to testify next month. </li></ul>The Georgia district attorney investigating former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election is demanding grand jury testimony from Mark Meadows, his former Chief of Staff. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is calling on Meadows to appear in court in September, stating he's "a necessary and material witness to the Special Purpose Grand Jury's investigation," according to court records filed on August 25 and <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/25/mark-meadows-ordered-to-testify-in-fulton-county-probe-of-trump-election-overturn-efforts-00053817">obtained by Politico</a>.Meadows is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-fbi-affidavit-nara-documents-georgia-testimony-january-6-investigation-2022-8">ordered to testify</a> about pushing"voter fraud" claims following the presidential election and regarding a January 2021 phone call with Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger about finding "11,780 votes," per the court documents. It comes amid the Jan. 6 committee hearings, where House members are investigating the Capitol riot at the US Capitol as Congress was certifying the election. In June, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Meadows, gave <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trumpworld-reaction-cassidy-hutchinson-january-6-testimony-2022-6">bombshell testimony</a> about Trump's behavior related to the attack during a House hearing. Hutchinson's revelations about that day came crashing down on Trumpworld during the two-hour hearing. Among them were that Meadows told Hutchinson "things might get real, real bad" on January 6, that Trump <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-weapons-january-6-crowd-dont-fucking-care-2022-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">knew</a> his supporters were armed when they flooded the Ellipse to attend his "Stop the Steal" rally, and that Trump <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-defended-jan-6-rioters-chanting-hang-mike-pence-and-said-mike-deserves-it-ex-white-house-aide-testifies-2022-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> "Mike deserves it" when rioters chanted "hang Mike Pence." Earlier this month, former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner argued that Meadows would soon turn his back and eventually <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-prosecutor-says-mark-meadows-will-snitch-on-donald-trump-2022-8">"rat Trump out."</a>Politico reported that staunch Trump allies retired Army colonel James Waldron and Trump attorney Sidney Powell were also called to make an appearance next month. Meadows, Powell, and Waldron, have all been subpoenaed by the House January 6 committee to share information connected to the Capitol riot, per Insider's Camila DeChalus and Warren Roja.

Ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows called to testify by Georgia district attorney investigating Trump's efforts to overturn 2020 election

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A South Carolina judge says Mark Meadows is not immune from testifying in a Georgia grand jury case.</li><li>Meadows has claimed executive privilege to avoid facing Georgia DA Fani Willis' 2020 election probe.</li></ul>A South Carolina judge has ruled that former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows must testify before the Georgia grand jury investigating his former boss' alleged 2020 election meddling. The ruling in the Pickens County court of common pleas, which the Atlanta Journal-Constitution <a href="https://twitter.com/TamarHallerman/status/1585278597102723072">reports will be appealed</a>, finds that Meadows is a "necessary and material" witness and must comply with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meadows-called-to-testify-about-trumps-attempt-to-overturn-election-2022-8">months-old request</a> that he share what he knows about the embattled former president's campaign to overturn President Joe Biden's lawful victory. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet blockquote" data-lang="en" data-cards="" data-conversation="">—Tamar Hallerman (@TamarHallerman) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/1585276961378734080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 26, 2022</a></blockquote>Meadows' attorney, James Bannister, did not immediately respond to requests for comment about future appeals. In his most recent filing, Bannister argued that Meadows can't be forced to testify in Georgia because the same executive privilege claim he's used to get out of appearing before the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/jan-6-committee">January 6 select committee</a> investigating the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/january-6-oral-history-capitol-attack-insurrection-timeline-investigation-2021-10">deadly siege at the US Capitol</a> applies here. <iframe></iframe>Select committee chairman Bennie Thompson told reporters after the panel's last public hearing that the group <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/january-6-committee-formally-subpoenas-trump-2022-10">formally subpoenaed Trump</a> after getting stonewalled by dozens of his personnel. House investigators said more than 30 former Trump aides and allies, including Meadows, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/january-6-investigators-explain-the-necessity-of-subpoenaing-trump-2022-10">have pleaded the Fifth when questioned</a> or <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mccarthy-jordan-house-republicans-january-6-committee-testimony-decline-2022-6">simply refused to cooperate with the select committee to date</a>. Willis is investigating Trump's efforts to change the electoral outcome in Georgia, including urging Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" the nearly 12,000 votes Trump would have needed to overtake President Biden in the Peach State.Former Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cassidy-hutchinson-georgia-fani-willis-probe-trump-2020-election-scheme-2022-10">recently agreed to cooperate with Willis</a>.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Mark Meadows must testify before a Georgia grand jury investigating 2020 election meddling.</li><li>In a ruling Tuesday, the South Carolina Supreme Court rejected Meadows' argument he is shielded by "executive privilege."</li></ul>Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump's one-time chief of staff and right-hand man during the effort to overturn the 2020 election, must testify before a Georgia grand jury looking into his ex-boss's campaign to remain in power following his loss, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.Last month, CNN reported that a former Meadows aide, Cassidy Hutchinson — whose testimony before the January 6 congressional committee electrified Washington — <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cassidy-hutchinson-georgia-fani-willis-probe-trump-2020-election-scheme-2022-10">was cooperating</a> with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' investigation into efforts by former President Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election.In an infamous phone call following his 2020 loss, Trump — joined on the line by Meadows — pleaded with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, days before the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-capitol-riot-was-not-the-language-of-the-unheard-2021-1">January 6 insurrection</a>, to "find" the votes he needed to overcome President Joe Biden's margin of victory. "Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break," Trump said, according to a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-georgia-brad-raffensperger-election-influencing-transcript-republicans-2021-01">recording of the call</a> (Biden's ultimately won the state by 11,780 votes).Meadows, who at the time was sharing conspiracy theories about the 2020 vote with election officials, also texted Raffensperger, who ignored the message, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/02/politics/mark-meadows-election-fraud-liaison/index.html">according to CNN</a>.In October, a lower court in South Carolina <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-meadows-cant-dodge-fani-willis-2020-election-subpoena-2022-10">ruled that</a> he must testify about the post-election meddling as he was a "necessary and material" witness to potential crimes, a decision that Meadows appealed.In its ruling on Tuesday, South Carolina's highest court said Meadows' argument — that as a former White House staffer he was shielded by "executive privilege"— was "without merit," <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/11/29/mark-meadows-ordered-to-testify-in-trump-investigation-00071232">Politico reported</a>.Have a news tip? Email this reporter: <a href="mailto:cdavis@insider.com">cdavis@insider.com</a>

Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows forced to testify before Georgia grand jury about Trump's effort to overturn 2020 election

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Trump announced his 3rd presidential bid in the same place that federal agents view as a suspected crime scene.</li><li>His campaign could further complicate the attorney general's eventual choice about whether to indict Trump.</li></ul>When FBI agents arrived three months ago at the South Florida home of former President Donald Trump, their search warrant made clear that the oceanside Mar-a-Lago estate had turned from "Winter White House" into a suspected crime scene.But, on a November evening a week after the midterms, there was no other setting for the announcement Trump had long teased: At Mar-a-Lago, the former president confirmed Tuesday he would seek a return to the White House.Trump's official campaign launch set the stage for a comeback bid that will unfold against the backdrop of a torrent of legal scrutiny that is only worsening.From the Justice Department alone, Trump faces a criminal inquiry into his hoarding of sensitive government records at Mar-a-Lago, along with a separate investigation into efforts to prevent President Joe Biden from succeeding him following the 2020 election. In court, rulings appear to have limited Trump's ability to invoke executive privilege amid those investigations, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/10/14/marc-short-grand-jury-testify-pence-trump/">clearing the way</a> for at least one former administration official — and potentially others — to testify.Meanwhile, at the local level, an Atlanta-area prosecutor is also investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election; prosecutors in Manhattan have <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-org-allen-weisselberg-tears-up-describing-his-betrayal-trump-2022-11">gone</a> to trial against the Trump Organization on financial fraud charges; and the New York state attorney general's office is preparing for a trial next year, in which Trump is <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-testify-court-defend-business-new-york-trial-2022-11">expected</a> to testify in defense of his business against a civil lawsuit seeking to bar him from doing business in the state.The Justice Department has pursued its investigations <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-early-2024-campaign-announcement-train-wreck-investigations-2022-7">undeterred</a> by Trump's signaling plans for a third presidential bid, and his formal campaign launch will not protect him. But his bid for a rematch with Biden could complicate decision-making at the Justice Department, which has strived under Attorney General Merrick Garland to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/attorney-general-merrick-garland-justice-department-doj-career-prosecutor-experience-2021-3">restore</a> its independence following the politicization of the Trump era.Indeed, even before Trump's announcement Tuesday, senior Justice Department officials discussed the possibility of appointing a special counsel to oversee investigations involving the former president in the event he announced a 2024 candidacy. Trump's announcement could spur more intense consideration of making such an appointment and — at least from an institutional perspective — make the decision to charge a former president more painful for the Justice Department.The midterm results appeared to diminish Trump's status as the Republican standard-bearer, as several of his endorsed candidates suffered defeats and an emergent rival within the party, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/desantis-landslide-victory-speech-florida-trump-2024-rivalry-looms-2022-11">cruised to reelection</a>. Still, Trump's entry in the race presents a "pretty stark conflict of interest for the department" and a need to appoint a special counsel, said Randall Eliason, a law professor at George Washington University and former top public corruption prosecutor in the US attorney's office in Washington, DC."This will give a degree of separation from the Biden administration that would cause the public to have some increased confidence in whatever decision is made — and that's the purpose of the whole special counsel regime," Eliason told Insider.Justice Department regulations lay out specific criteria for the appointment of a special counsel, namely in investigations that create at least the perception of a conflict of interest "or other extraordinary circumstances" in which "it would be in the public interest." Any special counsel would still report to Garland, meaning the decision of whether to bring charges would still fall with the attorney general.The Justice Department could soon signal its next steps. With the midterms now complete, federal prosecutors are no longer bound by the Justice Department's longstanding practice of avoiding overt, politically sensitive investigative steps before an election that could influence voters before they go to the polls.A Justice Department spokesperson declined to comment.<h2>'Substantial risk'</h2>In Georgia, an Atlanta-area prosecutor similarly refrained from taking potentially explosive steps as voters in that battleground state went to the polls. But the prosecutor, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, appeared to regain momentum quickly in her office's investigation into Trump's efforts to subvert the 2020 election.On Tuesday, the newly reelected Gov. Brian Kemp appeared before an Atlanta-area grand jury in connection with Willis' investigation. A judge overseeing the grand jury allowed Kemp to wait until after the midterms to testify, after previously rejecting the Georgia governor's bid to quash the subpoena demanding his appearance.In late 2020, Kemp was among the top state officials who Trump pressured to overturn Biden's win in Georgia.Willis' office also appeared to make progress in Florida, where a judge ordered former Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn to testify before the grand jury. Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, and Sen. Lindsey Graham are <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/michael-flynn-grand-jury/index.html">set to testify </a>before the grand jury later this week.In a recent report, experts at the Brookings Institution said Trump faces "substantial risk" of prosecution in the Willis investigation."Additional evidence uncovered by the DA's ongoing investigation may expand or contract the scope of conduct upon which charges, if any, may be brought. But it is critical to the integrity of our rule-of-law system, and our constitutional republic, that the investigation proceed," wrote the report's authors, including former Deputy Attorney General Don Ayers and Norm Eisen, who served as counsel for House Democrats in Trump's first impeachment.In New York, meanwhile, the longtime chief financial officer of the Trump Organization took the stand to testify at the company trial on financial fraud charges. The longtime executive, Allen Weisselberg, admitted to receiving perks — including leased cars and apartment rentals — without paying taxes on them.<div type="image" title="January 6 hearing" height="3729" width="4972" msid="95545911" hostid="261"></div><h2>Congressional troubles</h2>House Republicans are poised to retake the majority next year, albeit by a slimmer margin than expected. While Republicans did not ride the "red wave," their return to the majority would spell the end of a panel that has publicly aired damning evidence against Trump: the House committee investigating the January 6, attack on the Capitol.In a series of public hearings and in court filings, the House January 6 committee has connected the violence of the Capitol attack to Trump's rhetoric, including a comment on the presidential debate stage urging members of the far-right Proud Boys group to "stand by."In litigation involving the House January 6 committee, a federal judge found that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/eastman-trump-lawyer-justice-department-warrant-search-phone-january-6-2022-7">Trump</a> likely committed crimes — including obstruction of an official proceeding — in efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. Judge David Carter called those efforts a "coup in search of a legal theory."But the House January 6 committee hasn't finished just yet.After months of work, the committee has transcripts of more than 1,000 interviews — including with former Trump administration officials and two of the former president's children — that the panel's chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, has indicated he's inclined to release publicly. The committee could release those transcripts with a final report stitching together its findings.At its latest hearing, the House January 6 committee voted to subpoena Trump, prompting the former president to sue the panel last week. The committee's forthcoming report and interview transcripts could damage Trump on the campaign trail, particularly with voters who rejected his favored election deniers in the recent midterms.Those materials could also provide new leads to the Justice Department, whose prosecutors and investigators were rebuffed earlier this year when they sought the House committee's transcripts.Once the committee does dissolve, the anticipated majority in the House will lack the heft Republicans hoped the midterms would deliver.Ahead of the midterms, Republicans warned that they would wield committees to mount oversight investigations and grill the Justice Department and FBI about investigations involving Trump. But the narrower Republican majority means that Democrats will have the power, even in the minority, to hinder and frustrate some of those efforts.And it remains unclear how fervently Republicans will come to Trump's defense following a midterm election in which many members of the party viewed him as a drag on the ticket.This story was originally published on November 15, 2022. It was updated to note that former President Donald Trump is expected to testify in defense of his business at a trial scheduled for next year.

Donald Trump launched a third bid for president at a time when his legal troubles have never been worse

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="11968390" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="mary-trump" source="Orion">Mary Trump</keyword> said her uncle is "terrified" as the Jan. 6 committee interviews high-profile witnesses such as <keyword id="12265226" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="pat-cipollone" source="Orion">Pat Cipollone</keyword>.</li><li>She said that <keyword id="11914386" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword> "can't deny the walls may indeed be closing in."</li></ul>Mary Trump, author, and niece of former President Donald Trump, said that her uncle is afraid after former White House counsel Pat Cipollone testified before the January 6 House select committee. "To say that Donald is terrified is accurate and also an understatement," Trump said while appearing on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDLsI81k6HM">MSNBC's The Katie Phang Show</a> on Saturday."I think this might be the first time in his entire life that even he can't deny the walls may indeed be closing in. The amount of evidence that we see coming out of these committee hearings is overwhelming," she said.She noted that the witnesses that are now coming forward to speak with the committee are increasingly important in terms of access and positions in his administration.<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jDLsI81k6HM?start=49" frameborder="0"></iframe>Although the details of Cipollone's testimony are yet to be revealed, Rep. Zoe Lofgren said he <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/cipollone-testifies-before-jan-6-panel-2022-7">"did not contradict"</a> the testimony of previous witnesses.Phang noted that Trump released a statement criticizing Cipollone testifying in front of the panel, arguing that it could discourage future presidents from having <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-pat-cipollone-january-6-committee-bad-for-usa-2022-7">"candid" conversations</a> with a White House counsel.However, she noted that he did not attack Cipollone personally, as he has been known to do with other witnesses, such as <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-cassidy-hutchinson-bad-news-hardly-know-her-january-6-2022-6">Cassidy Hutchinson</a>.Speaking on MSNBC, former acting United States Solicitor General Neal Katyal theorized that Trump's restraint is a sign that he wants to keep Cipollone on his side."Donald Trump lashes out when he's scared, but when he's terrified, and with Cipollone he is, he's trying to actually butter him up," Katyal said.Legal experts previously told <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pat-cipollone-january-six-criminal-charges-trump-2022-7">Insider's Camila DeChalus</a> that Cipollone's first-hand account of whether Trump was aware that he was potentially engaging in criminal activity could strengthen a case against him by the Justice Department.On Friday's show, Phang asked Trump about her uncle's mounting legal troubles, including <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fani-willis-investigation-trump-georgia-inner-circle-heats-up-2022-7">Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis' probe</a> into alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/letitia-james-donald-trump-cushman-wakefield-documents-ny-investigation-2022-6">New York Attorney General Letitia James' probe</a> into his business."It would be almost unimaginable at this point if he got out of all of the legal and civil charges against him," Mary Trump said."But again, you know, you said it – for decades now he has always skated, and that's the only reason I'm not confident. Hopeful, but not entirely confident there will be consequences."She added that believes the cases in Georgia and New York were the "strongest cases against him."

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