Senator Lindsay Graham, a Trump ally, was also included. Among this group were Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Cleta Mitchell, Kenneth Chesebro and Jenna Ellis. Mr Trump and some of his allies are facing a number of investigations relating to their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.Įarlier this month, a special grand jury investigating potential criminal interference in Georgia’s 2020 presidential election results subpoenaed key players in the legal team that advised Mr Trump during the aftermath of the vote.
While the effort was ultimately unsuccessful, the repetition of bogus claims about election fraud by Mr Trump and his campaign would spur the then-president’s supporters to attack the US Capitol on January 6.Ī House committee investigating the causes of the attack has subpoenaed masses of communications between Mr Trump’s advisers and key players in the plan to overturn the election. The emails show the broad outlines of a shifting plan to override the will of voters in battleground states lost by Mr Trump. Others involved in the efforts included lawyers Jenna Ellis and Bruce Marks, and Gary Michael Brown, who was deputy director of the Trump campaign’s election day operations. The Times reported that Mr Epshteyn was “a regular point of contact” for John Eastman, the lawyer who came up with the plan to send fake electors to Congress on 6 January 2021. “His idea is basically that all of us (GA, WI, AZ, PA, etc.) have our electors send in their votes (even though the votes aren’t legal under federal law - because they’re not signed by the Governor) so that members of Congress can fight about whether they should be counted on January 6th,” Mr Wilenchik wrote in the email to Mr Epshteyn. Mr Wilenchik also outlined a plan from another lawyer working with the campaign, Kenneth Chesebro, to send fake electors for Mr Trump, noting that the plan was not legally sound. He added in a later email that “‘alternative’ votes is probably a better term than ‘fake’ votes.” The email was sent to Boris Epshteyn, a strategic adviser for the Trump campaign. Trump in a tense Oval Office session that the Justice Department's fraud investigations had run dry, the president dismissed the department as derelict before finding other officials there who would view things his way.“We would just be sending in ‘fake’ electoral votes to Pence so that ‘someone’ in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes,” wrote Jack Wilenchik, a lawyer who helped organise pro-Trump electors in Arizona, in an email sent on 8 December, 2020, according to the Times.
Barr's resistance to his more authoritarian impulses - including his idea to end birthright citizenship in a legally dubious pre-election executive order. But privately the president was chafing at Mr. Likewise, during the campaign, Attorney General William P. Biden's victory would not be enough to dissuade 14 Republican senators from joining the president's last-ditch bid to nullify millions of Americans' votes. Trump would eventually accede to reality, people close to the senator told The Times. McConnell heeded misplaced assurances from White House aides like Jared Kushner that Mr. As he sought the president's help in Georgia runoffs that could cost him his own grip on power, Mr. In the Senate, he got early room to maneuver from the majority leader, Mitch McConnell. Throughout, he was enabled by influential Republicans motivated by ambition, fear or a misplaced belief that he would not go too far. Across those 77 days, the forces of disorder were summoned and directed by the departing president, who wielded the power derived from his near-infallible status among the party faithful in one final norm-defying act of a reality-denying presidency.
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