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Nevilledog

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Mon Oct 11, 2021, 06:24 PM Oct 2021

John Eastman's employer tries to whitewash his road map for overturning Trump's loss



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Denver Riggleman
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“What the Claremont Institute should really be responding to is whether it’s comfortable with its employee explicitly seeking to help overturn an American election based upon claims that were routinely debunked and rejected in court.”

Analysis | John Eastman’s employer tries to whitewash his road map for overturning Trump’s loss
The conservative group on Monday finally responded to a weeks-old controversy — by laying waste to the straw man it had propped up.
washingtonpost.com
11:26 AM · Oct 11, 2021


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/11/claremont-whitewash-eastman-memo/

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The conservative Claremont Institute, which employs the lawyer who provided a road map for President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election, decided to issue a statement Monday defending Eastman.

“Contrary to almost universally false news accounts, which have done great damage, John did not ask the Vice President, who was presiding over the Joint Session of Congress where electoral votes were to be counted on January 6, to ‘overturn’ the election or to decide the validity of electoral votes,” its statement says.

It adds that “John advised the Vice President that, despite credible legal arguments to the contrary, the Vice President should regard Congress, not the Vice President, as having the authority to choose between the two slates.”

The defense is among the most carefully worded straw-man arguments in modern political history.

Essentially, the statement isn’t disputing that Eastman provided a ready-made procedure for Trump and Pence to get the election overturned — he clearly and unambiguously did so — it’s that he didn’t explicitly say Pence should overturn it himself.

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John Eastman's employer tries to whitewash his road map for overturning Trump's loss (Original Post) Nevilledog Oct 2021 OP
There were no two slates. Nitwits. Disbar them all! Tomconroy Oct 2021 #1
Yeah, sure gratuitous Oct 2021 #2

gratuitous

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2. Yeah, sure
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 06:48 PM
Oct 2021

During Prohibition, there was some product that went through meticulous step-by-step instructions for home brewing your own alcoholic beverages, using the product. At the end of the instructions, the manufacturer cautioned its customers against doing what it had just laid out, or they might create an alcoholic beverage!

Claremont's fatuous sophistry sounds eerily similar.

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