They were the latest members of the former president’s inner circle to find out that associating with Trump could put them on cracking legal ice.
There is increasing speculation over why Meadows was charged in Georgia but not in special counsel Jack Smith’s federal investigation into Trump’s election stealing efforts.
Legal experts wonder whether he could be cooperating with that probe in a sign of peril for the former president.
Trump’s inner circles have long faced legal problemsTrump’s co-defendants in the Georgia case are not the first to find out that the ex-president’s intolerance for the rules and conventions that normally constrain presidencies can lead them into treacherous waters.
Trump once vowed to bring only “the best people” to Washington, but his acolytes often find themselves dragged into his legal storms.
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