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New Details of Trump Plan to Overturn Election Results Reveal Weaknesses in Our Democracy

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A recently-surfaced memo written by conservative lawyer John Eastman revealed a detailed plan for the Trump administration to overturn President Joe Biden’s election. The document included a six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election in early 2021, including throwing out legal ballots in seven states. The explicit nature of these strategies from President Trump’s legal team shows the stopgaps and weaknesses in our nation’s election laws. We talk to Washington Post reporter Philip Bump and Politico reporter Nicholas Wu about how we might address the loopholes that President Trump sought to exploit, and discuss whether formerly-establishment figures like Eastman may face any fallout or punishment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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But first, we'll learn more about a recently surfaced memo that explicitly laid out a plan for subverting the 2020 presidential election.

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And we'll look at what impact it could have on the House panel investigating the January 6th insurrection and on efforts to shore up weaknesses in U.S. election law.

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A draft report on the results of the controversial GOP-funded vote recount in Arizona

2:03.8

has actually reaffirmed that Joe Biden won more votes than Donald Trump. Meantime, Texas has announced a 2020

2:10.9

vote recount in four counties after Trump demanded it, and so Trump's efforts to save face over his

2:17.0

election loss continue, one that

2:19.4

has already included rejected court filings, and, as we learned this week, a detailed memo

2:25.4

that laid out a way for then-vice-president Mike Pence to overturn the election results and finagle

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