Incriminating emails reveal Trump's lawyer knew plan to
stop certification of 2020 election was illegal
John Eastman
a lawyer who drew up former US President Donald Trump's plan to put the US in a position of constitutional crisis in order to stop certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election, allegedly admitted that the plot would not be able to confront weeks before the mosquito.
- As the creator of the outrageous memo that gave a detailed description of how then-Vice President Mike Pence, along with Republican members of Congress
- was taking great strides in an effort to prevent the consolidation of current US President Joe Biden's victory
- Eastman seems to have acknowledged that the plan was "Dead on arrival" if state legislatures do not actively approve Donald Trump's "replacement voters.
Eastman equally acknowledged in private emails
weeks before attempts to stop the certification of the election.
Then
when state legislatures actually rejected replacement voters
- Eastman encouraged everyone to change course
- and instead pushed the Trump team to the goal of
- preventing Congress itself from certifying Biden's
victory:
- even without the need for legal justification. The events that followed
- are now infamous, such as Eastman's memo, and perhaps
- much more so when chaos swept the U.S. Capitol the next time.
The email
was released Thursday night in a court filing by the House Selec
Committee to investigate
the events leading up to the January 6 attack on the U.S.
Capitol. It provides more evidence to suggest that Eastman's involvement was not a one off but a "culmination of a monthslong effort to corruptly sabotage the results of the 2020 electionthe committee wrote in the court filing.
New:
- John Eastman told a colleague in December 2020 that
- the plan to cancel the election is "dead as it arrives" unless
- states certify the "duel" of pro-Trump voters, new emails show.
In its 57-page memo
the House Select Committee wrote:
More importantly
the new evidence presented by Dr. Eastman demonstrates his contemporary involvement in the submission of forged lists to Trump voters that were the basis of his legal arguments regarding the Vice President."
The memo was presented
by the committee as a measure hopefully obtaining 600 emails from Eastman
who claims that
the emails in question are protected by the privilege of lawyer
and client between the Trump campaign and Eastman himself.
However
a judge previously ordered that Eastman release most of
the other emails he shared between him and the Trump team.
The emails also reveal that
Eastman was aware of questionable legitimacy of attempts to prevent election certification, and shed new light on the prospect of Eastman lying when he said he showed strong evidence of voter fraud and corrupt voting methods.
During the 2020 presidential election.
While Eastman blatantly asserted in a speech just after the events of January 6 that "machines contributed" to alleged voting fraud and that "the dead voted," Eastman admitted in emails that he had seen no such evidence.
When Republican members of
Congress began asking for evidence of election fraud
he wrote:
"I didn't even have the opportunity to look at the link to the website I sent
but I was told everything was gathered there." "Isn't that the case?"