Mark Meadows

White House Chief of Staff (March 31, 2020 – January 20, 2021).

Role
  • White House Chief of Staff, –
First joined
, as White House Chief of Staff
Terms
First term

In office

3 published records link Mark Meadows, gravest first.

  1. Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern

    Georgia Election Interference: Trump Demands Secretary of State 'Find' 11,780 Votes

    Trump's January 2, 2021 phone call with Raffensperger was a direct attempt to pressure a state election official to falsify vote tallies. Trump made factually false claims about the election, threatened Raffensperger with unspecified legal 'risk,' and specifically demanded he 'find' a precise number of votes matching the margin Trump needed to win Georgia. Raffensperger refused. The conversation was recorded and published; Trump was later indicted for conspiracy and RICO violations in Georgia, but the case was dropped in November 2025 without trial.

  2. Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern

    Georgia Call: Trump Pressured Secretary of State to 'Find' Votes to Overturn Election

    Trump spent approximately an hour on the call with Raffensperger, his deputy, and Trump's attorneys, pressing Raffensperger to reverse Georgia's certified presidential election results. He made multiple false claims about fraud that Raffensperger repeatedly corrected in real time. Trump told Raffensperger 'there's nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you've recalculated' and that finding 11,780 votes would put Trump ahead in Georgia. Raffensperger refused. The call recording was published; Trump's Georgia indictment in August 2023 cited it as a central piece of evidence.

  3. Grade 2 of 5: Major Abuse of Power

    Systematic Hatch Act Violations: Using Government Resources for Political Campaigns

    The Office of Special Counsel — an independent federal watchdog — found that at least 13 senior Trump administration officials violated the Hatch Act before the 2020 election, mostly by promoting Trump's reelection in official-capacity interviews; Pompeo by changing State Department policy to speak at the RNC; and Wolf and others by orchestrating a naturalization ceremony to create RNC content. Each could only have been disciplined by Trump, who took no action. Earlier, in May 2019, Conway responded to Hatch Act criticism: 'Let me know when the jail sentence starts.'

Before office

1 record from before Mark Meadows first joined. See them on Before Office.

  1. Official finding

    House Ethics Committee Reproves Mark Meadows Over Handling of Aide's Sexual Harassment, Orders $40,625 Repayment (2018)

    The Committee found that after receiving complaints in October 2014, Meadows restricted West from the offices but kept him as chief of staff with full salary and supervisory authority until April 2015, ignored an independent investigator's recommendation to terminate him, then kept paying him as "Senior Advisor" and as "severance" through August 15, 2015. The Committee found violations of clause 8 of the Code of Official Conduct (compensation not commensurate with duties) and of House rules against discrimination.