Mark Meadows Got a Call Over a Taylor Swift Instagram Post During Coney Barrett's …

Mark Meadows had to leave the room to take a call during Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation hearings. A HUD official called to inform Meadows that a low-level staffer had liked a Taylor Swift Instagram post. The post said “Vote” and endorsed Biden, and the White House was rooting out disloyal staffers. Loading Something is loading. Former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows got a phone call during the high-stakes Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Justice Amy Coney Barrett — prompting him to briefly leave the room — because a low-level staffer at the Department of Housing and Urban Development had liked an Instagram post by musical artist Taylor Swift.This comes from Jonathan Karl’s forthcoming book, “Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show,” an excerpt of which was published in The Atlantic on Tuesday.Andrew Hughes, a former Uber driver who was serving as chief of staff at HUD, called Meadows because a young assistant at the department had liked Swift’s post urging people to vote. It also featured a photo of Swift holding a plate of Biden-Harris themed cookies.”I spoke to @vmagazine about why I’ll be voting for Joe Biden for president,” Swift wrote in the Instagram post. “So…
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