Mark Meadows claims that Donald Trump would likely have taken the law into his own hands to fight off BLM protesters.
Mark Meadows, Donald Trump’s fourth and final chief of staff, says that the former president would likely fight off BLM protesters who are trying to enter the White House last year and knocked their heads protesting the death of George Floyd in May 2020 if the Secret Service hadn’t led him to a secure bunker.
In his soon-to-be-released book “The Chief’s Chief”, Meadows offers his account of the event that sent the White House into “Code Red”. Trump insisted he was in the White House bunker in order to inspect it and not because he was taken there for his own safety as protesters tried to invade the White House last year.
Thousands of protesters demonstrated peacefully near the White House during the daylight, but the hundreds who remained in the streets by sundown turned the demonstration more explosive.
Meadows writes that campaigners had jumped the fence on the Treasury side of the compound and were running toward the Oval Office, according to excerpts obtained by the Daily Beast ahead of the book’s publication.
Meadows wrote: “I’m sure that if President Trump had the choice, he would have headed out to the lawns and knocked their heads in one by one. If he does but he doesn’t not when it comes to the United States Secret Service, no one does, either you do what they say, or they pick you up and make you do it.”
“So, when the Secret Service asked President Trump to head downstairs to the White House bunker, he complied. He knew that he could go to the bunker with a few agents by his side, or he could go on their shoulders kicking and screaming. For everyone’s sake, the first option was better,” he added.
Details of his trip to the bunker were quickly leaked to The New York Times. Meadows fingers White House officials the president’s former Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham, Emma Doyle, or members of the vice president’s team for revealing Trump’s movements.
The book also exposed that Trump tested positive for Covid-19 days before his first presidential debate with Joe Biden. The bombshell revelation, first reported by The Guardian, shocked many as the former president claimed to have a negative test before the debate and was only hospitalized with the virus a week later.
In the statement, Trump doesn’t deny he received a positive test and called Meadows claims “Fake News” saying “In fact, a test revealed that I did not have COVID prior to the debate.”
According to Meadows, Trump tested positive on September 26, 2020, the same day the White House held a Rose Garden ceremony honoring supreme court nominee Amy Coney Barrett which was later revealed to be a super-spreader event, as they took off for the debate, the White House had still not told the public Trump tested positive and then negative two days before.point 594 | 1
On the Washington Post, two White House aides familiar with the test confirmed it was positive, six days before Trump tweeted that he was infected with the virus and subsequently hospitalized.
White House Dr. Sean Conley told Meadows to “Stop the president from leaving. He just tested positive for COVID”, as Trump boarded Marine One on the way to a Pennsylvania rally scheduled for after the Saturday Barrett event.
It was too late to stop the helicopter, and when Meadows informed Trump of the positive test while onboard Air Force One, the president said something that rhymes with, “Oh spit, you’ve got to be trucking lidding me”.
The copy of the book was obtained by The Guardian on Tuesday, the same day Meadows announced that he would reverse course and cooperate with the House committee investigation into the deadly January 6 attack on the Capitol building.
It came a day after Politico reported that Meadows was among those who could join the 2024 presidential ticket for vice president, as Trump seeks to replace former Vice President Mike Pence.
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