The Aftermath S2E2 - Lawyers for the Coup

Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath

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Trump, News & Politics, January 6, Politics, Lawfare, Insurrection

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In December 2020, The President and his advisors are still fighting to overturn the results of November’s presidential election. Then, in the middle of the month, a lawyer in Wisconsin sends a memo to the president’s legal team. This memo marks the beginning of a scheme that works its way through state legislatures and the halls of Congress, then to Trump himself. It is a scheme that ends with the Vice President of the United States in mortal danger. The main architect and proponent of this scheme is a little-known law professor from California, John Eastman.

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0:00.0	Some things just add some play to your day.
0:03.0	Catching the toast as it pops out of the toaster,
0:05.6	dancing down the street to your favorite playlist.
0:09.0	Wearing a sparkly boots to the shop.
0:11.2	Best of all, picking the new gold scratch card.
0:14.0	A gold scratch card please.
0:16.0	Thank you.
0:17.0	And doing your own drum roll.
0:18.0	This is exciting.
0:21.0	Add some play to your day,
0:22.8	the scratch cards from the National Lottery.
0:24.8	Search stream big, play small.
0:26.6	Rules and procedures apply, players must be 18 or over. It's December 2020 and President Trump is still fighting to overturn the results of November's presidential election.
0:43.9	But nothing is working.
0:46.1	Court losses keep mounting.
0:48.4	Election officials and state legislators
0:51.0	can't be swayed to disregard the votes of their citizens.
0:55.0	And for team Trump, the clock is ticking.
0:59.0	Then, in the middle of the month, a lawyer in Wisconsin sends a memo to the
1:04.4	president's legal team. It points to an opportunity just a few weeks off when
1:10.0	Congress convenes to count the votes from the Electoral College on January 6th.
1:15.6	The plan is this.
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