"A conservative lawyer working with then-President Donald Trump's legal team tried to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence that he could overturn the election results on January 6 when Congress counted the Electoral College votes by throwing out electors from seven states"
"The scheme put forward by lawyer John Eastman was outlined in a two-page memo which has not previously been made public, provides new detail showing how Trump and his team tried to persuade Pence to subvert the Constitution and throw out the election results on January 6."
"The Eastman memo laid out a six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election for Trump, which included throwing out the results in seven states because they allegedly had competing electors. In fact, no state had actually put forward an alternate slate of electors -- there were merely Trump allies claiming without any authority to be electors."
"Under Eastman's scheme, Pence would have declared Trump the winner with more Electoral College votes after the seven states were thrown out, at 232 votes to 222. Anticipating "howls" from Democrats protesting the overturning of the election, the memo proposes, Pence would instead say that no candidate had reached 270 votes in the Electoral College. That would throw the election to the House of Representatives, where each state would get one vote. Since Republicans controlled 26 state delegations, a majority could vote for Trump to win the election."
The plan was first proposed to Pence when Eastman was with Trump in the Oval Office on January 4, during one of Trump's attempts to convince Pence that he had the authority to stop the certification of the election."
"You really need to listen to John. He's a respected constitutional scholar. Hear him out," Trump said to Pence at that meeting"
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/polit...emo/index.html
This isn't a brainstorming session nor some maverick assistance coming up with ideas, but an actual plan that Trump not only bought but tried to convince Pence to enact. Certainly explains why Trump told the crowd that morning that Pence has to "to the right thing," and why Trump crucified Pence on twitter shortly thereafter
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