Trump’s Very Bad Lawyers: A Continuing Series

Ingraham: That would have to be you all basically agreeing, implicitly, explicitly that you all knew this was phony and that your decision amongst yourselves was to advance the plan to overturn the election..

Eastman: I challenge them to find a single email that supports that pic.twitter.com/lcpL6mqODq

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 29, 2023

That’s easy, it’s Kenneth Chesebro’s memo about creating the fake electors if they *don’t* win any recounts or decisions. (But to publicly message, saying it’s for if they do.)

Followed by John Eastman’s memo, falsely stating, “7 states have transmitted dual slates of electors.” https://t.co/qUoq4Q712M

— Eric Kleefeld (becoming a parody of myself) (@EricKleefeld) August 30, 2023

They found those emails already. A federal judge said so. https://t.co/lLJlXdSEeB https://t.co/szOKIm4Sus pic.twitter.com/D8ORdm0pLg

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) August 30, 2023

And once more, with feeling:

Eastman: We did nothing wrong. We were challenging the election for what even Pence described as serious allegations of fraud pic.twitter.com/hDL96TD7vF

— Acyn (@Acyn) August 29, 2023

The President plays precisely *zero* role in enforcing the state election laws that govern how elections are administered and certified.

And enforcement of the federal laws governing the counting of electoral votes is up to the Joint Session—and specifically *not* the President. https://t.co/OK94NzX3gg

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) August 24, 2023

And in 60+ cases, Trump & Co. failed to produce any evidence of fraud, which failure ended their legal avenues to challenge the election outcome. So they turned to illegal ones; and here we are.