As more details from Mark Meadow’s upcoming memoirs are dribbled out, it’s clear that far from offering up any revelations that will inform investigations into the Jan. 6 assault, the book really has one purpose: to demonstrate Meadow’s unflinching obedience to Trump and his conscience-free support for the Big Lie. On Thursday, The Guardian revealed more passages from Meadows’ book, including those directly related to the Jan. 6 rally and the assault on the Capitol. Throughout the section, Meadows works to both downplay Trump’s actions on that day and dismiss the thousands of people who swarmed the Capitol seeking to kill Mike Pence and members of Congress. And more than anything else, Mark Meadows seems to edit Mark Meadows out of any possible connection to the insurgency—including leaving out meetings and memos already known to exist. And when it comes to the actual attack, Meadows is careful to insist that neither he nor Trump had anything to do with it. “No one would [focus] on the actions of … those supporters of President Trump who came [to Washington on 6 January] without hate in their hearts or any bad intentions,” writes Meadows. “Instead, they would laser in on the actions of a handful of fanatics across town.” Whether that “handful of lunatics” represents the 700+ already indicted for their actions on Jan. 6, or whether he means the Willard Hotel hangout where Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Rudy Giuliani, and John Eastman operated what The Washington Post reported as a “command center” for the insurgency isn’t clear. Because one thing that Meadows definitely is not doing is naming names. Read more