Trump lawyer offered six-point plan for Pence to overturn election

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/573133-trump-lawyer-offered-six-point-plan-for-pence-to-overturn-election

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/20/politics/trump-pence-election-memo/index.html

https://www.salon.com/2021/09/22/mike-pences-6-point-plan-to-steal-the-election-leave-roadmap-for-future-authoritarians/


The memo from John Eastman was circulated in January to some of Trump's staunchest Republican defenders in Congress


This week we learned, through the new Woodward and Costa book "Peril," that one of Donald Trump's closest legal advisers, a law professor by the name of John Eastman, had prepared a memorandum to serve as guidance for the Vice President to overturn the election on January 6th. The memo laid out a six-point plan:

First: The Vice President begins the counting with the state of Alabama as usual.

Links above:

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1. Hasn't Eastman backed away from the memo? ...

he Eastman Memo: Poor Lawyering for a Disreputable Cause ...
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UPDATE: John Eastman has told CNN that the above-cited memo was merely a preliminary outline, and has provided CNN's Jeremy Herb with a longer, six-page memo, dated January 3, which outlines ...

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2. Well, it is clear they were thinking about it and discussing it behind closed doors.

Why write the memo in the first place unless you thought some people just may use it as a guide for action?