Cleveland Meredith biography: 13 things about Donald Trump supporter from Hiawassee, Georgia

Cleveland “Cleve” Glover Meredith Jr. is a white man from Hiawassee, Georgia, United States. He is married and he has two sons.

Meredith is a Donald Trump supporter. Here are 13 more things about the Hiawassee resident:

1. He grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. His father owns a company that makes utility poles while his mother is a homemaker-turned-interior decorator. His parents described him as “a great person who had fallen from grace into far-right-extremist territory.” He had two sisters. One of them died of brain cancer. (a)
2. In 1986, he graduated from The Lovett School in Atlanta. He led the school to cross-country championships twice. (a)
3. From 1987 to 1990, he attended the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, USA where he earned his bachelor’s degree in economics. During a fight with a group of visiting football players from Lambuth College in Tennessee in 1989, which he started, he and his girlfriend made racist and derogatory comments. (b) (c)
4. He was one of the owners of Car-Nutz Car Wash, a car wash in Acworth, Cobb County, Georgia. In June 2018, he put up a billboard that reads “#QANON” with the Car-Nurtz Car Wash name in the bottom left corner. Since 2019, he has not been associated with the company, which has been renamed. (a) (d)
5. After he and his wife separated in 2019, he moved from Cobb County to Hiawassee.  (c) 
6. In March 2019, he showed up at an event in Lovett in his unmistakable Saab to protest against Jon Meacham, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian who was there to speak about current affairs. (a)
7. In 2020, he moved from Hiawassee to North Carolina, USA. He showed up with an IWI Tavor X95 rifle to hold a counterprotest at the Hiawassee Town Square in Hiawassee where around 50 Black Lives Matter protesters were gathered from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. on June 5, 2020. He believed the Black Lives Matter movement is “basically a political stunt done by the higher ups, just paying people to screw everything up” and disagreed with “the violence surrounding” the movement. He described himself as “a fifth-generation Atlantan” who supports “America, freedom and Donald Trump.” (c) (e)
8. In November 2020, he attended a protest outside of  83rd Georgia governor Brian Kemp in Georgia, he told the Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on January 7, 2021.  (f)
9. On December 19, 2020, he wrote on Facebook, “GOAT POTUS calls for PROTEST in D.C. on January 6, 2021…he’ll be giving us PATRIOTS our licenses.” (a)
10. He celebrated 2021 New Year with his sons on a skiing trip to Crested Butte, Colorado, USA. (a)
11. From Colorado, he arrived in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. However, he was too late for the Stop the Steal rally at the Ellipse where Trump’s supporters gathered. (f)
12. On January 7, 2021, FBI agents made contact with him in his hotel room at the Holiday Inn in Washington, D.C. He agreed to speak with the FBI agents without a lawyer present and allowed them to search his hotel room, his Ford truck, a Spartan trailer that can attach to the truck, and his mobile telephone. A Glock 19, nine millimeter pistol, a Tavor X95 assault rifle and approximately hundreds of rounds of ammunition were found in the trailer. Earlier that day, he sent a text message to a certain individual saying, “Thinking about heading over to Pelosi C***’s speech and putting a bullet in her noggin on Live TV.” He added a purple devil emoji. He was accused of possession of an unregistered firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition and was charged with making interstate threats to 52nd U.S. house of representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi. (f) (g) 
13. On January 8, 2021, the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia found that he does not possess a registration for any firearm in Washington, D.C. (f)

SOURCES:

• a. The New Yorker
• b. Cleveland Meredith
• c. The Sewanee Purple
• d. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
• e. Towns County Herald
• f. US Department of Justice
• g. U.S. Department of Justice