Email reveals plan to keep Trump in office on Jan. 6, Court records show

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Washington – In the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, an attorney with ties to the Trump campaign was circulating a memo with plans to block the certification of the Electoral College votes during the joint session of Congress, court records reveal.

Attorney Kenneth Chesebro sent an email to former New York Mayor and Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Dec. 13, 2020, with detailed plans that would put then-Vice President Mike Pence and Senate president pro tempore Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, in central roles in the Congress' joint session. The email's subject line read, "Brief notes on 'President of the Senate' strategy."

According to the email – revealed via a recent court filing by the House Jan. 6 Committee in its legal fight against Trump attorney John Eastman – Chesebro wanted Pence to recuse himself from his constitutional position as president of the Senate and the presiding officer over the joint session and claim a "conflict of interest" by way of being a candidate on the ballots in question.

Pence ultimately did preside over the final certification of the Electoral College votes and resisted pressure from Trump and his allies to block Joe Biden's victory.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/email-reveals-plan-keep-trump-181743555.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Fingers crossed they will end up where ANY and ALL democrats would if they did this...

But I will NOT hold my breath...but I will hold out hope.

[Karadeniz]

2. And there's been reporting that Grassley was prepared to take charge that day, so he knew and

was willing to be a party to instigating investigations, sewing seeds of doubt, giving the states in question time to formulate the desired reaction for illegal electors to be counted or throwing the decision to the House.

[SoonerPride]

3. They won't fail next time.