[EL] leaked Eastman memo on stealing 2020 election through sham slate of electors

[Rick Hasen]

“Memo shows Trump lawyer’s six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election”<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=124699>
September 20, 2021, 3:03 pm<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=124699> chicanery<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=12>, electoral college<https://electionlawblog.org/?cat=44> RICK HASEN<https://electionlawblog.org/?author=3>


CNN:<https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/politics/trump-pence-election-memo/index.html>

A conservative lawyer working with then-President Donald Trump’s legal team tried to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence that he could overturn the election results on January 6 when Congress counted the Electoral College votes by throwing out electors from seven states, according to the new book “Peril” from Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa<https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/14/politics/woodward-book-trump-nuclear/index.html>.

The scheme put forward by controversial lawyer John Eastman was outlined in a two-page memo<http://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2021/images/09/20/eastman.memo.pdf> obtained by the authors for “Peril,” and which was subsequently obtained by CNN. The memo, which has not previously been made public, provides new detail showing how Trump and his team tried to persuade Pence to subvert the Constitution and throw out the election results on January 6.

The effort to sway Pence was just one of several behind-the-scenes attempts that Trump’s team undertook ahead of January 6 in a desperate bid to overturn the 2020 election loss, after dozens of lawsuits were thrown out of the courts. “Peril,” which will be released Tuesday, details how Eastman’s memo was sent to GOP Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and how Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani tried to convince fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina of election fraud. But both Lee and Graham scoffed at the arguments and found they had no merit.




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