Trump Aide Mark Meadows Skips January 6 Testimony Despite Legal Threats

Mark Meadows, who was Donald Trump's chief of staff when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of Joe Biden's election, now faces potential criminal or civil action after he apparently didn't show up to a scheduled deposition Friday morning.

U.S. Representative Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat who is chairing the select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, had threatened possible action in a Thursday evening letter to Meadows' lawyer, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General George Terwilliger III.

Terwilliger's office told Newsweek in a statement that there is a "sharp legal dispute with the committee."