From where I sit, the mounting evidence against John Eastman continues to grow that further supports the T-Right's effort to overthrow the election result. In this recent trove of emails, Eastman recruits PA State Rep Russ Diamond to be a major part of his plan. May justice do what it's supposed to do and bring these guys down.
Newly revealed emails show the inner-workings of Eastman's extreme plan to overturn 2020 election results in Pennsylvania.
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Before he urged Vice President
Mike Pence to unilaterally hand the 2020 election to
Donald Trump, right-wing lawyer
John Eastman, who represented Trump after the election, floated a somewhat subtler, but no less extreme plan to undermine
Joe Biden’s victory: Throw out absentee ballots, recount the votes, and use the new totals to “provide some cover” for Republican legislatures to appoint their own electors. “Having done that math,”
Eastman wrote in a December 2020 email to a Pennsylvania state lawmaker, “you’d be left with a significant Trump lead that would bolster the argument for the Legislature adopting a slate of Trump electors.”
The Pennsylvania plan, which Eastman proposed from his email account at University of Colorado, where he was a visiting professor, provides yet another glimpse into the Trump team’s relentless efforts to subvert democracy in 2020.
It was part of a trove of emails obtained by the Colorado Ethics Institute and sent in April to the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack, which has been fighting in court to obtain
more than 3,000 documents from Eastman related to the probe. The
Denver Post first
reported on his proposal to recalibrate the Pennsylvania popular vote.
In the December 4 guidance to Republican State Representative
Russ Diamond, one of
26 pro-Trump radicals in the Pennsylvania legislature who had already pushed for the state’s results to be decertified, Eastman suggested GOP lawmakers “adopt a resolution that has the Legislature simply affirming what appears to have been the result of the popular vote untainted by the illegal votes.” Adjusting the total without those so-called “illegal votes” — absentee ballots, those with supposed “signature verification violations,” and “perhaps the banning of observers” —
could give “cover” to Pennsylvania Republicans seeking to appoint new electors, Eastman said.