On 12/14/2021, The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday to hold a former colleague, Mark Meadows, in criminal contempt of Congress for refusing to testify in front of the House committee. The vote was 222-208, with GOP Reps. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Liz Cheney of Wyoming voting with all Democrats. Meadows is now the first former lawmaker ever held in criminal contempt by Congress — and the first held in contempt since 1832.

“Mark Meadows is our former colleague, he is a good man and he is my friend,” said Ohio GOP Rep. Jim Jordan. Jordan said, “What a charade, make no mistake, when Democrats vote in favor of this resolution, it is a vote to put a good man in prison. … We all know what a good man he is. And this is as wrong as it gets. You all know it. But your lust for power, your lust to get your opponents is so intense, you don’t care.”

The 222 – 208 vote to move forward with prosecuting the former North Carolina GOP congressman, who served as Trump’s chief of staff, came after an impassioned defense by his House Freedom Caucus co-founder and close friend, Champaign County, Ohio, Republican Rep. Jim Jordan. He protested that his colleagues were “destroying executive privilege” by refusing to respect Meadows’ invocation of the principle when Meadows declined to testify before the committee after giving it thousands of documents.

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What a charade, as wrong as it gets, good man, House voted to hold Mark Meadows in contempt