WASHINGTON — In the final weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency, as loyalists fled or were pushed out, a once unlikely figure emerged as one of the last senior officials by his side: White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
A former congressman who represented far-western North Carolina in the U.S. House, Meadows was an early target of Trump’s now-banned Twitter account. But he became a trusted adviser to Trump over the years, eventually becoming his fourth and final chief of staff.
The conditions that left Meadows, 61, as the last senior aide standing in the turbulent White House were partly coincidence, sources who worked for Trump and under Meadows said.
