Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,' a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
New reporting that Mark Meadows has testified with immunity to special counsel Jack Smith’s election-related grand jury might lead one to think he has “flipped” on Donald Trump. But that’s not necessarily the case.
These reports, which have not been confirmed by NBC News or MSNBC, suggest that Meadows testified under what’s known as “use immunity,” as opposed to the broader “transactional immunity” that would fully protect against prosecution for the alleged crimes at issue. Of course, even the more limited type of immunity could effectively keep Smith from charging Meadows, a calculation that the prosecution no doubt would have taken into account.
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