Leaked emails from Trump's lawyer show blueprint for a 2024 coup

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"These Eastman emails show that manipulating vote totals to create 'cover' for state legislatures to appoint sham Trump electors was more central to the scheme than we knew." —@ThePlumLineGS

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Opinion | Leaked emails from Trump’s lawyer show blueprint for a 2024 coup
The road map for a future stolen election is taking shape right in plain sight.
9:23 AM · May 11, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/11/john-eastman-emails-2024-trump-coup/

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The House committee examining the insurrection attempt has obtained new emails from the lawyer who helped concoct Donald Trump’s plot to overturn the 2020 election. They reveal a whole new level of scheming behind that effort, which was even more nefarious than previously thought.

But the emails also raise forward-looking questions: What do these new revelations tell us about how the subsequent efforts to steal a presidential election might unfold? And could conditions be different next time in a way that might facilitate such a scheme?

The answers to these questions are unsettling. But they also point toward a way we can protect ourselves from the worst. Will Congress act?

The emails from lawyer John Eastman show him urging GOP state legislators in Pennsylvania to cast doubt on 2020 vote totals, to create cover to certify a slate of presidential electors for Trump. Politico reported on the emails, which the Jan. 6 select committee obtained from the University of Colorado, where Eastman worked at the time.

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[Kid Berwyn]

1. Why, just the other day, Eastman was looking for voter fraud.

And there he finds it.

Paging General Garland!

Please pick up the white privilege courtesy phone.

Paging General Garland!

[walkingman]

2. Will Congress Act? Not a snowballs' chance in hell.

[blueinredohio]

3. Sadly I agree.

[Emile]

4. When the DOJ gets some evidence I'm sure he'll prosecute.

SARCASM