A Georgia state judge has called Mark Meadows, who served as former U.S. President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, to testify to clarify his possible involvement in alleged interference in the 2020 election vote count.
Judge Edward Miller has subpoenaed Meadows to testify as part of an investigation led by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis looking into possible interference in the Georgia vote count.
The case was initiated after an alleged conversation surfaced in January 2021 in which Trump urged Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger to do what he could to find the just over 11,000 votes needed to reverse Joe Biden’s victory.
After learning the news of the subpoena, the legal team of Meadows, who was President Trump’s chief of staff during the last stages of his term, has acknowledged that it plans to appeal the ruling, according to the US newspaper ‘The New York Times’.
Willis already cited Meadows in August this year, noting that he had been part of a meeting, which was also attended by Trump himself, in which rhetoric about allegations of voter fraud and certification of votes in Georgia and other states was addressed.
Willis has previously accused Meadows of attempting to attend an audit of election results in Georgia and of being involved in the aforementioned phone call to Raffensberger.
