Trump-supporting lawyer's memo begins with a lie, then descends into madness
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The two-page memo from John Eastman, disclosed in the new book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, begins with a lie and then descends into madness.
Eastman is a lawyer who worked with former president Donald Trump's legal team to overthrow democracy and try to steal the 2020 election.
First, the lie: "7 states have transmitted dual slates of Electors to the President of the Senate." What seven states? What "dual slates of electors"? How were they purportedly "transmitted" to the Senate? This is all, of course, nonsense. In fact, every single state certified one, and only one, slate of presidential electors based on the 2020 election results.
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The two-page memo from John Eastman, disclosed in the new book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, begins with a lie and then descends into madness.
Eastman is a lawyer who worked with former president Donald Trump's legal team to overthrow democracy and try to steal the 2020 election.
First, the lie: "7 states have transmitted dual slates of Electors to the President of the Senate." What seven states? What "dual slates of electors"? How were they purportedly "transmitted" to the Senate? This is all, of course, nonsense. In fact, every single state certified one, and only one, slate of presidential electors based on the 2020 election results.
The Eastman memo proceeds from this foundational lie to build a wild legal fantasy on top of it; in that respect, the memo is a perfect encapsulation of Trump's overarching strategy to steal the 2020 election. Eastman casually adopts as true a bold legal fiction that "[t]here is very solid legal authority, and historical precedent, for the view that the President of the Senate does the counting, including the resolution of disputed electoral votes ... and all the Members of Congress can do is watch." That's simply wrong as a matter of law and history. Thankfully, the President of the Senate, who was then-Vice President Mike Pence, recognized this, and refused to unilaterally override the votes cast by the disputed states.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/opinion-trump-supporting-lawyers-memo-begins-with-a-lie-then-descends-into-madness/ar-AAOFIhY
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