Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
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- Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows registered to vote where he didn’t live, per a report by The New Yorker.
- Meadows was registered to vote in 2020 at a small home in Scaly Mountain, North Carolina.
- The home’s former owner told The New Yorker that Meadows may never have stayed at the property.
A new report found that Mark Meadows, former President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, may have registered to vote at an address he never lived at during the 2020 election.
According to Meadows’ voter registration form seen by The New Yorker, he filled out his details on September 19, 2020. He listed a mobile home in Scaly Mountain, North Carolina, as the place where he physically lives.
However, The New Yorker spoke with the home’s former owner, who said that while Meadows’ wife, Debbie Meadows, did rent the small property for around two months in the last few years, Meadows himself had “never spent a night in there.”
The house’s former owner — who asked not to be named — also commented that the property had been rented to Debbie Meadows when Meadows filled out that voter registration form. The Meadows family never owned the home. It was sold by its former owner to its current owner, Ken Abele, in August 2021, per The New Yorker.
Abele told the outlet it was “weird” that the former North Carolina congressman would stay at such a place.
“I’ve made a lot of improvements,” Abele told The New Yorker of the house. “But when I got it, it was not the kind of place you’d think the chief of staff of the president would be staying.”
According to The New Yorker, Meadows sold his Sapphire, North Carolina, home in 2020. He also had an apartment in Virginia but did not purchase another property in North Carolina after selling the Sapphire property.
If Meadows never lived at the Scaly Mountain location, he could be in potential violation of the state’s abode test for voter registration, which requires people to have spent at least one night in the location they are registering to vote without the immediate intent to establish a domicile in another location.
Meadows did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Insider.
In December 2021, Meadows was held in contempt by the January 6 committee investigating the Capitol riot for refusing to answer its questions at a deposition or turn over documents. If found guilty of the contempt charge, he could face a year in prison.
Meadows had been cooperating with the House panel but abruptly shifted course in mid-December, declining to hand over additional documents even after giving up over 9,000 pages of records — including thousands of texts.
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