As of yet, no criminal charges have been leveled at architect of a plan to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power, listens to questions from reporters after a hearing in Los Angeles, Tuesday, June 20, 2023. Eastman faces 11 disciplinary charges in the State Bar Court of California stemming from his development of a dubious legal strategy aimed at having Vice President Mike Pence interfere with the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory. August 1, 2023 at 6:07 p.m.
John Eastman stood on stage at a rally in support of President Trump in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6 while former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani spoke. JACQUELYN MARTIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS The co-conspirators listed in the indictment are unindicted and unidentified, but the document described Co-Conspirator 2 with a level of specificity that it has to be Eastman.
The indictment closely traces Eastman/Co-Conspirator 2’s involvement in Trump’s attempts to change the election results in late 2020 and early 2021. “Next, Co-Conspirator 2 proposed steps that he acknowledged violated the , advocating that, in the end, ‘Pence then gavels President Trump as re-elected.’ Just two months earlier, on October 11, Co-Conspirator 2 had taken the opposite position, writing that neither the Constitution nor the ECA provided the Vice President discretion in the counting of electoral votes, or permitted him to ‘make the determination on his own.
That same day, a White House meeting was held with Trump, Pence and his attorney, “Co-Conspirator 2” and others to convince Pence of the righteousness of the plan, with Trump making “knowingly false claims of election fraud, including, ‘Bottom line …. We won every state.’”
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