Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows has pleaded not guilty in the Georgia election subversion case, along with two other allies of the former U.S. president, ABC News reported.
Meadows, along with attorneys John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark, submitted their pleas through paperwork and waived the formal arraignment that was set in Fulton County Superior Court for Wednesday.
The trio, including Trump and 15 more co-defendants, were charged last month with the attempt to overturn Trump’s 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden.
Meadows, who attended White House meetings related to Trump’s bid to undo his election defeat, is alleged by prosecutors to have falsified statements about the election and conspired with Trump to disrupt and delay Congress certifying the election on Jan. 6, 2021.
Meadows also reportedly tried to pressure a chief investigator in the Georgia secretary of state’s office to accelerate the Fulton County signature verification.
Meadows and four other co-conspirators are now seeking to move the charges against them to federal court.
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