trump lawyer knew plan to delay Biden certification was unlawful
From Technobarbarian@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 10 13:21:09 2022
Yeah,nothing to see here folks. Move along. This obviously wasn't
an insurrection. It was clearly just some rowdy tourists. There's no
need to investigate anything here. That would just be "divisive".
"Trump lawyer knew plan to delay Biden certification was unlawful'
"Interrupting the certification of Joe Biden’s 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 president’s 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-president’s 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 Trump’s former attorney Rudy Giuliani and Trump’s 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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