White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows checks his watch before giving a television interview outside the West Wing about U.S. President Donald Trump’s fight against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at the White House in Washington, U.S. October 7, 2020.
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The House plans to vote Tuesday on a measure to hold former President Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in criminal contempt of Congress over his defiance of a subpoena issued by the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
The measure, if passed, would refer Meadows to the Department of Justice for possible criminal prosecution.
The contempt proceedings advanced through the House days after the committee said Meadows refused to sit for a deposition to answer questions about Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, when hundreds of his supporters violently stormed the Capitol. The rioters, many of whom were spurred by Trump’s false claims of a “rigged” 2020 election, forced lawmakers to flee their chambers and temporarily stalled the confirmation of President Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory.
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