'Provide some cover': Batch of Eastman emails sheds light on contacts with state legislators

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Kyle Cheney
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May 10, 2022
NEWS: A new batch of John Eastman emails from Dec. 2020 shows his advice to state legislators seeking to rescind Joe Biden's electors — including his suggestion that they simply retabulate the popular vote to put Trump on top.

https://politico.com/news/2022/05/10/eastman-emails-pennsylvania-legislators-biden-00031668…
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Kyle Cheney
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The emails were sent by Eastman to a state rep in Pennsylvania through an email connected to Univ. of Colorado, where he worked as a visiting professor. Their existence was first revealed earlier today by the Denver Post. But we've obtained them as well.

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‘Provide some cover’: Batch of Eastman emails sheds light on contacts with state legislatures
He suggested a way for Pennsylvania legislators to cancel Joe Biden's win.
8:24 PM · May 10, 2022

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/10/eastman-emails-pennsylvania-legislators-biden-00031668

Attorney John Eastman urged Republican legislators in Pennsylvania to retabulate the state’s popular vote — and throw out tens of thousands of absentee ballots — in order to show Donald Trump with a lead, according to newly unearthed emails sent in December 2020, as Trump pressured GOP lawmakers to subvert his defeat.

This recalculation, he posited in an exchange with one GOP state lawmaker, “would help provide some cover” for Republicans to replace Joe Biden’s electors from the state with a slate of pro-Trump electors, part of a last-ditch bid to overturn the election results.

Per the exchange, Eastman suggested that GOP legislators could simply cite their concerns with Pennsylvania’s absentee ballot procedures and then use historical data to “discount each candidates’ totals by a prorated amount based on the absentee percentage those candidates otherwise received.”

“Having done that math, you’d be left with a significant Trump lead that would bolster the argument for the Legislature adopting a slate of Trump electors — perfectly within your authority to do anyway, but now bolstered by the untainted popular vote,” Eastman wrote in a Dec. 4, 2020 email to Pennsylvania Rep. Russ Diamond. “That would help provide some cover.”

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[jaysunb]

1. Seditious conspiracy ? We need an orange jump suit right now. Nt

[ZonkerHarris]

2. Indict for sedition.

[dem4decades]

3. Garland is the man, he's shown nothing but resolve going after Trump.

And these guys.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Obviously not the first time they have used these voting count tricks.