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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBroadcast news shows ignore Trump coup memo
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https://www.mediamatters.org/abc/broadcast-news-shows-ignore-trump-coup-memo
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John Eastman, a member of the conservative legal establishment who worked with Trumps legal team as the then-president sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election, wrote the document in the days leading up to the January 6 counting of electoral votes. His plan lays out various ways then-Vice President Mike Pence and congressional Republicans could use that event to subvert the election, ensure that Trump remained in office, and terminate the American experiment with democratic rule.
Reporters at The Washington Post and CNN obtained a two-page version of the memo, which CNN published on Monday. On Tuesday, CNN reported that Eastman claimed that document was a preliminary version and published a six-page version dated January 3 that the lawyer had provided.
That longer version lays out a series of alternatives using the Trump campaigns false claims of widespread voter fraud and illegal actions by state and local election officials during the election as a pretext for Pence and congressional Republicans to throw out electors from as many as seven states that President Joe Biden won. His argument was legally preposterous, but dangerous ambiguities in federal law left the election vulnerable if Republicans were willing to act.
BOLD, Certainly, Eastman comments in the memo after laying out the plot. But this Election was Stolen by a strategic Democrat plan to systematically flout existing election laws for partisan advantage; were no longer playing by Queensbury Rules, therefore.
Thats the presidents lawyer rationalizing a scheme to steal the election on his clients behalf.
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Broadcast news shows ignore Trump coup memo (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2021
OP
Carlitos Brigante
(26,500 posts)1. Because deep down they want him back. nt
brooklynite
(94,502 posts)4. The only thing worse than conspiracy theories are lazy ones.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)2. Front page on CNN
Nevilledog
(51,080 posts)3. He's talking about broadcast news, not cable news. ABC, NBC, CBS
brooklynite
(94,502 posts)5. None of which are reported to have obtained the memo.
Nevilledog
(51,080 posts)6. Right.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)7. Because their Corporate 1% masters don't care.
TFG has always been the pick of the 1%.
He breeds corruption.
lees1975
(3,845 posts)8. You can't run for president from prison....
edhopper
(33,570 posts)9. Didn't you know
there was a "missing white girl". Can't cover everything.