Mark Meadows admitted his tell-all book was full of lies, so now his publisher is suing him
On Friday, we learned some deeply funny news about former Trump administration chief of staff Mark Meadows. Publishing company All Seasons Press paid Meadows a $350,000 advance to write his smarmy supposed tell-all book about his time in Donald Trump's White House. Now they're suing him for that money back and a whole lot more.
After Meadows got limited immunity in order to compel his testimony to a grand jury investigating Donald Trump's attempts to nullify his 2020 presidential election loss, Meadows testified under oath that there was no evidence of "fraud" that would have put the election's results in doubt, that he repeatedly told Trump that the claims were baseless, and that Trump was "dishonest" when he claimed to have won the election.
The problem for All Seasons Press is that all of this directly conflicts with what Meadows claimed in his book had happened. In other words, Meadows lied his ass off when writing the book. From The Hill:
“Meadows’ reported statements to the Special Prosecutor and/or his staff and his reported grand jury testimony squarely contradict the statements in his Book, one central theme of which is that President Trump was the true winner of the 2020 Presidential Election and that election was ‘stolen’ and ‘rigged’ with the help from ‘allies in the liberal media,’ who ignored ‘actual evidence of fraud,’” the company writes in the filing. ...The suit notes that the opening sentence to one chapter in Meadows’s book was, “I KNEW HE DIDN’T LOSE.”