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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump lawyer knew plan to delay Biden certification was unlawful, emails show
Trump lawyer knew plan to delay Biden certification was unlawful, emails show
John Eastman conceded that scheme represented violation of Electoral Count Act but urged Mike Pence to go ahead anyway
Hugo Lowell in Washington
Thu 10 Mar 2022 02.00 EST
Last modified on Thu 10 Mar 2022 15.50 EST
Interrupting the certification of Joe Bidens election win on 6 January last year as part of the scheme to return Donald Trump to office was known to be unlawful by at least one of the former presidents lawyers, according to an email exchange about the potential conspiracy.
The former Trump lawyer John Eastman who helped coordinate the scheme from the Trump war room at the Willard hotel in Washington conceded in an email to counsel for then vice-president Mike Pence, Greg Jacob, that the plan was a violation of the Electoral Count Act.
But Eastman then urged Pence to move ahead with the scheme anyway, pressuring the former vice-presidents counsel to consider supporting the effort on the basis that it was only a minor violation of the statute that governed the certification procedure.
The admission that the scheme was unlawful undercuts arguments by Eastman and the Willard war room team that they believed there was no wrongdoing in seeking to have Pence delay the certification past 6 January one of the strategies they sought to return Trump to power.
It additionally raises the prospect that the other members of the Willard war room including Trumps former attorney Rudy Giuliani and Trumps former strategist Steve Bannon were also aware that the scheme to delay or stop the certification was unlawful from the start.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/10/trump-lawyer-plan-john-eastman-mike-pence
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Trump lawyer knew plan to delay Biden certification was unlawful, emails show (Original Post)
babylonsister
Mar 2022
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onecaliberal
(32,786 posts)1. Give me a fucking break. Of course they knew.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,339 posts)2. OK, now we get the legal basis of the crimes committed.
No pardons for you - Eastman, Stone, and Bannon! You knowingly broke the law and ....question ism did you explain this to the Former Guy?