Mark Meadows reportedly predicted 'nobody is going to care' about George Floyd's killing

[DonViejo]

BRENDAN MORROW
JUNE 18, 2021

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows reportedly initially dismissed the idea that George Floyd's killing would dominate the news and generate nationwide outrage in May 2020, instead thinking "nobody" would care.

That's according to a new excerpt published in Politico Friday from reporter Michael C. Bender's book Frankly, We Did Win this Election, which details a West Wing meeting the morning after Memorial Day in 2020. The scheduled topic was the COVID-19 pandemic, but adviser Jared Kushner, who appeared "distracted" and "aloof," reportedly interrupted the discussion to bring up the video starting to spread of Floyd's killing at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.

"I'm just going to stop you," Kushner reportedly said. "There is going to be one story that dominates absolutely everything for the foreseeable future. I'm already hearing from African American leaders about the death of George Floyd in Minnesota."

But according to the book, Meadows "brushed" this off, telling Kushner, "Nobody is going to care about that." Meadows disputes this account.

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https://theweek.com/mark-meadows/1001717/mark-meadows-reportedly-predicted-nobody-is-going-to-care-about-george-floyds

[LakeArenal]

1. That means if Republicans had anything to do with it

Nobody would have said or done anything.

[malaise]

3. He spoke the ReTHUG truth

Black lives do not matter to them

[LakeArenal]

7. Si!!!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. We are still talking about George Floyd.

Whenever unarmed African-Americans are killed at the hands of police.

[rurallib]

4. Meadows has incredible insight into the black community

[Orangepeel]

5. so Kushner is the reporters primary source

I don't know if this story is true or not, but dollars to donuts, it came from Kushner

[underpants]

8. If true Jared actually got something right until his "bad PR" COVID assessment.

He then screwed up the testing and PPE coordination.

From what I’ve read Jared advises Trump that COVID wasn’t a big deal and to treat it like bad PR. That pretty much cost us February.

[JI7]

11. Yes, Ivanka and Kushner PR .

[David__77]

6. I can understand why he would forecast that.

It seems to me like few care about more recent killings.

[JI7]

9. I don't believe this after reading this because the role of Kushner

sounds like total bs.

Ivanka and Jared regularly did media PR to make themselves look good while Trump was making a mess. Things they never said themselves in public or did anything about. But they would leak things to the media claiming they were concerned about something.

[spanone]

10. meadows is a rancid shit-sandwich

[moondust]

12. "nobody I know is going to care"

Somebody forgot a couple words.

[dchill]

13. "Meadows disputes this account."

So it's definitely true.

[JI7]

17. Nope , the story comes from Kushner trying to make himself

look good in this. It's the reason I don't believe this happened.

[Blue Owl]

14. He couldn't have been more wrong

[struggle4progress]

15. ... there's always Little Lord Kushner with his dead eyes and cold-heart

waiting in the wings to explain everything.

The dead eyes and cold heart of Jared Kushner
OCT 30, 2020
TONY NORMAN

[struggle4progress]

16. Bizarre claim votes were changed by satellite

Martin Pengelly
Sun 6 Jun 2021 09.35 EDT

Donald Trump’s final White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, pressured the acting attorney general .. to investigate a conspiracy theory which said people in Italy used military satellites to make US voting machines switch votes for Biden ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/06/donald-trump-mark-meadows-doj-italygate