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āA roadmap for a coupā: inside Trumpās plot to steal the presidency
On 4 January, the conservative lawyer John Eastman was summoned to the Oval Office to meet Donald Trump and Vice-President Mike Pence. Within 48 hours, Joe Bidenās victory in the 2020 presidential election would formally be certified by Congress, sealing Trumpās fate and removing him from the White House.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/oct/30/tucker-carlson-condemned-capitol-attack-liz-cheney
The atmosphere in the room was tense. The then US president was āfired upā to make what amounted to a last-ditch effort to overturn the election results and snatch a second term in office in the most powerful job on Earth.
Eastman, who had a decades-long reputation as a prominent conservative law professor, had already prepared a two-page memo in which he had outlined an incendiary scenario under which Pence, presiding over the joint session of Congress that was to be convened on 6 January, effectively overrides the votes of millions of Americans in seven states that Biden had won, then āgavels President Trump as re-electedā.
The Eastman memo, first revealed by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa in their book Peril, goes on to predict āhowlsā of protest from Democrats. The theory was that Pence, acting as the āultimate arbiterā of the process, would then send the matter to the House of Representatives which, following an arcane rule that says that where no candidate has reached the necessary majority each state will have one vote, also decides to turn the world upside down and hand the election to the losing candidate, Donald Trump.
āA roadmap for a coupā: inside Trumpās plot to steal the presidency
A startling memo, a surreal Oval Office encounter ā just some of the twists in the unfolding story of Trumpās bid to cling to power, which critics say was no less than an attempted coup
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Biden campaign: J.D. Vance would do what Pence wouldn't on Jan. 6
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), former President Trump's new running mate, told ABC News in February that he would not have certified the 2020 election on Jan. 6 had he been vice president instead of Mike Pence.
The Eastman memo is universally recognized as an unconstitutional theory whereby the VP exceeds his authority, refusing to maintain the tradition of peacefully transferring power to the new prez.
Trump's 'Eastman Memo' Proposed an Unconstitutional Power Grab by the Vice President
Earlier this week, CNN obtained a copy of a legal memorandum prepared for then-President Donald Trump that envisioned a "January 6 scenario" under which Trump could seek to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to Joe Biden.
Authored by conservative law professor John Eastman, the "Eastman Memo," as it has been dubbed in the press, argued that Vice President Mike Pence, while presiding over the joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021, possessed the sole power to count electoral votes and that Pence should use this power to reject pro-Biden votes and thus deliver the White House to Trump. "Howls, of course, from the Democrats," Eastman wrote. "The main thing here is that Pence should do this without asking for permissionāeither from a vote of the joint session or from the Court." According to Eastman, "the Constitution assigns this power to the Vice President as the final arbiter. We should take all of our actions with that in mind."
In reality, the Constitution assigns no such power to the vice president.
Trumpās āEastman Memoā Proposed an Unconstitutional Power Grab by the Vice President
Earlier this week, CNN obtained a copy of a legal memorandum prepared for then-President Donald Trump that envisioned a "Januaryā¦
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Meaning a vote for trump/Vance is a vote for ignoring the constitutional order when abiding by the Constitution is inconvenient. Or rulings by courts for that matter.
Vance has also gone further than nearly any other Republican official in arguing for expansive presidential authority over the executive branch, saying in 2021 that he would advise Trump to fire āevery civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people,ā and ignore courts that got in the way.
I just thought you should know who you are voting for beforehand. Cuz voting for someone promising to be your retribution (even though what you're really doing is enabling his) may feel good, but is it worth turning your back on what the country stands for?
