An attorney who worked with former President Trump's legal team tried to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence that he could overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and provided him with a six-step plan, according to a new book from journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.
CNN, citing a memo initially obtained by the book's authors, reported that attorney John Eastman first proposed the plan to Pence on Jan. 4 in the Oval Office with Trump. The memo called for throwing out the election results in seven states under the false claim that those states had used alternate electors.
The conservative lawyer also reportedly proposed that Pence could declare Trump the winner of the election after the votes were disposed of. -snip
Some are saying "this is proof Trump tried to overturn the election". Nay, this is more proof, as we have the threats to state officials, the pressure put on Pence, the insurrection.
How anyone can still support Trump is beyond me, this was a legitimate attempt in overturning our legal election, not some imagined "Jade Helm" nonsense like Obama was supposed to do, this just happened to fail because certain people would not go along.
Seems the goal was to throw out the election results in several keys states, then boot the election over to the then Republican controlled House, have them certify Trump as president for a 2nd term, Pence signing off, letting Trump continue as POTUS while the Democrats sued and it stayed tangled up in the courts for who knows how long, likely a few years.
Yeah, the coup attempt was real, it just failed because not enough people would go along. The insurrection was more pressure and the backup plan.
Pretty amazing how Pence had to call Quayle and ask for advice in how to proceed, when it's beyond obvious Pence should have struck down the insane proposal the moment he heard it.
that's disingenuous... no it isn't beyond you to expect or understand. they're a cult. trump could rape their whole families in front of them, and they'd still support him. you know this.
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Trump Used D.C. Hotel to Plan Overturning the Election
They called it the "command center," a set of rooms and suites in the Willard hotel a block from the White House where some of Donald Trump's most loyal lieutenants were working day and night with one goal in mind: overturning the results of the 2020 election.
The activities at the Willard that week add to an emerging picture of a less visible effort, mapped out in memos by a conservative pro-Trump legal scholar, and pursued by a team of presidential advisers and lawyers seeking to pull off what they claim was a legal strategy to reinstate Trump for a second term.
They were led by Trump's personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani. Former chief White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon was an occasional presence as the effort's senior political adviser. Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik was there as an investigator. Also present was John Eastman, the scholar, who outlined scenarios for denying Biden the presidency in an Oval Office meeting on January 4th with Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.
to ask advice from a guy who can’t even spell potato shows just how insane this was. Pence must’ve thought, “who’s insane enough to understand this shit?” But even Dan Quayle isn’t that stupid.
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Clearly not that easy if these supposed geniuses haven't managed to take 1 step, let alone 6. Even more so when they've been continually outsmarted and outmaneuvered by a stuttering, mentally deficient, alzheimers sufferer.
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