Mark Meadows, former Trump chief of staff who made debunked claims that elections 2020 was stolen, registered to vote in a rusty tin-roofed mobile home where he apparently never lived, according to a new report.
If true, the former North Carolina congressman may have committed election fraud. New Yorker Journal.
Appalachian mobile home neighbors on the Meadows voter roll said they had never seen a politician there, according to magazine correspondent Charles Bethea.
When he left his elected office to join the Trump administration, Meadows sold his Sapphire property. North Carolinaand moved into an apartment with his wife outside of Washington, DC.
He did not buy any new property in the state, but on September 19, 2020, he registered to vote in the 11th congressional district he once represented in a mobile home in Scale Mountain, North Carolina. The date of his move was listed as 20 September.
Duke University public policy professor Jerry Cohen, who wrote the state’s call-to-vote law, says registration must be done “where you physically live.”
The former owner of the Scaled Mountain cabin, who is not named in the New Yorker article, says Debbie Meadows, the former chief of staff’s wife, rented the house and was friendly with the neighbors, but said “he didn’t show up.” He never slept there,” says Mark.
Mark Meadows, the former Trump chief of staff, registered to vote in a rusty tin-roofed mobile home (pictured) where he apparently never lived, according to a new report.
The former White House chief of staff claimed that he lived in a rust-roofed mobile home during voter registration in North Carolina.
Mark and Debbie Meadows own $1.6 million lakefront property in South Carolina.
The current owner, Ken Abele, who bought the property a year after Meadows registered it, was surprised to learn that the former congressman and chief of staff considers it his home.
“It’s strange that he did that,” he told The New Yorker. ‘Very strange.’
The neighbor at the mountain address said she hosted Debbie and the couple’s children, but did not vouch for Mark Meadows.
“They were there legally. And yes, they legally voted in a legitimate election,” neighbor Tammy Tully told the magazine.
She later clarified, “Debbie, I don’t know what the kids did.”
Mark Meadows did not comment on his residence, but a Macon County, North Carolina election commissioner said the applicant would have to prove the registration was fraudulent.
In 2021, Meadows and his wife bought a lakefront property in South Carolina for $1.6 million, according to The New Yorker.
Mark Meadows (left) sent five emails to Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen in the last weeks of the Trump presidency, urging him to investigate unproven allegations of election fraud.
Mark Meadows theorized that the Italian government was trying to influence the election by changing the vote from Trump to Biden via satellites.
Meadows moved to Tar Heel State in the mid-1980s and opened a sandwich shop called “Aunt D’s” in the highlands of the state. He became a real estate broker before running for Congress in 2013.
He left office in 2020 to join the Trump administration, where he promoted the debunked theory that the election was stolen from the former president.
He pushed the Justice Department to look into the theory that the Italian government had hacked voting machines using satellites. New York Times.
In fact, he sent five emails to Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen urging him to investigate the ItalyGate theory, the newspaper reported.
According to emails given to Congress and received by the publication, Rosen never agreed to the investigations. Rosen turned down Meadows’ requests, sources said.