2 Aug 2023 7:41 am
None of that changes, or makes incorrect, anything in my post.jerrab » 02 Aug 2023, 7:35 am » wrote: ↑ eastman will be indicted too. now will he try to save himself and say trump wanted him to do it or just take the rap? I bet he will have more to say.
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/22/politics ... index.html
WashingtonCNN — The scheme to overturn the 2020 election and have Vice President Mike Pence gavel in Donald Trump as President on January 6 is based on nonsense legal theories and invented scenarios.John Eastman, a lawyer working for then-President Trump’s legal team, wrote a six-point memo on how Pence could dismiss the election results and hand Trump the Presidency, according to Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s new book “Peril.” The two-page memo was subsequently obtained by CNN.On Tuesday, Eastman provided CNN with a longer six-page memo laying out numerous other scenarios for Pence to follow on January 6.According to Woodward and Costa, Trump implored Pence to consider the plan during a January 4 meeting in the Oval Office.J. Michael Luttig, a lawyer and former judge for the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals, wrote on Twitter Tuesday that he “advis(ed) Vice President Pence that he had no choice on January 6, 2021, but to accept and count the Electoral College votes.” Luttig, who was cited in Pence’s own January 6 letter explaining why he wouldn’t intervene, added that he believed “Eastman was incorrect at every turn of the analysis in his January 2 memorandum.”The plan proposed by Eastman – which Pence rejected – had no basis in reality and attempted to establish new, undemocratic authorities for the Vice President.Facts First: There are two foundational errors in Eastman’s memo. First, the memo falsely says there were legitimate “disputes” about the electors in seven states regarding the 2020 results. Second, the memo pretends the vice president has the power to declare who is the next President.Election resultsIn the memo, Eastman outlines how Pence, while presiding over the electoral vote count in Congress on January 6, could reject the election results of seven states because of supposed “ongoing disputes” over state electors and thereby exclude the electoral votes from those states.“When (Pence) gets to Arizona,” Eastman writes, “he announces that he has multiple slates of electors” and “(a)t the end, he announces that because of the ongoing disputes in the 7 States, there are no electors that can be deemed validly appointed by those States.”This is nonsense.