The ‘Matador’ for Trump’s Election Lies

Susan Glasser has a great profile of Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, much of which comes from reporting from her forthcoming book with Peter Baker: The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017 -2021.

“A sixty-year-old onetime real-estate developer from North Carolina who had spent the previous seven years in Congress, he was beefy and tall, with a winning smile and an easygoing manner. But his affable demeanor disguised a ruthless ambition, and, once he quit Congress and took over Trump’s perpetually fractious team, his new colleagues found him to be a cutthroat infighter determined to consolidate power.”

This is telling: “A former Republican leadership aide once told the journalists Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman that Meadows was the most dishonest person he had ever met at the Capitol, ‘convicted criminals included.’”