Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows quietly decided to cooperate with special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutors after they challenged former President Donald Trump's claims of executive privilege, according to The New York Times.
Meadows "commenced a delicate dance" with federal prosecutors after receiving a subpoena from a grand jury over the winter, the outlet reported. Meadows initially declined to answer questions, citing Trump's claims of executive privilege. But when Smith's prosecutors challenge Trump's claims, Meadows "pivoted" and "even though he risked enraging Trump," decided to "trust" Smith's team and quietly arranged to talk with them about both Trump's efforts to stay in power and the Mar-a-Lago documents case, according to the report.
