Lawyers caved to Trump demands and encouraged Pence to overturn the election in newly reported memos
, laid out a six-six-step plan for Pence to toss out the votes from seven states on the grounds that they allegedly had competing electors, although those competing electors were just Trump supporters without the necessary authority to vote as electors. But the Eastman memo didn’t come from someone who was working directly for Trump, as the Ellis and McEntee memos did.
These memos emphasize how dedicated Trump was to maintaining his power, democracy be damned, and how far his lawyers were willing to go to keep him in the White House. Karl also reported that Trump even made a last-minute phone call to Pence the morning of Jan. 6 in a final effort to convince him to do his bidding. In a March interview,
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