Even as Congress deliberates on further punitive actions against Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s last White House chief of staff, Meadows will be on hand in Shelby County on April 29th at the Agricenter as the keynote speaker at the Shelby County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day banquet. Shelby GOP chair Cary Vaughn made the announcement over the weekend.
Meadows, a Tea Party Republican and a founding member of the ultra-right Freedom Caucus, represented North Carolina’s 11th District in the U.S. House of Representatives before being tapped by Trump to head his White House staff in 2020.
Suspected of complicity in the post-election insurrection against the Capitol, Meadows was uncooperative with the House’s January 6 Select Committee and was held in criminal contempt of Congress. As Wikipedia notes, he was the first White House chief of staff since the Watergate scandal and first former member of Congress to have been so cited.
