NFBW wrote: DJT’s attempt to overturn the election in order to award himself a second term despite the fact he lost the election, had an inside game and an outside game. Applying the label “insurrection” to both DJT games is appropriate. . . . The bad news for DJT voters is the DJT Inside insurrection game is in writing in the form of the Eastman memo. DJT’s outside insurrection game is the Big election fraud Lie that has been I just play in public since before Trump lost in a landslide.
Here is some excellent coverage And context on what the Eastman election coup in writing is all about. There’s also the Ellis plan which is very similar.
On January 2, Trump lawyer John Eastman called into Steve Bannon's
War Room podcast to explain how to steal the election. Eastman told Bannon that Vice President Mike Pence could still overturn Biden's victory. The interview was part of an extremely public campaign by Trump and his closest allies to lobby Pence to steal the election during the certification ceremony.
“””” One of Eastman's crackpot theories was that the vice president has the unilateral power to accept or reject electoral votes at his whim, or failing that, to somehow "send the election back" to Republican-controlled swing state legislatures that would disregard the will of their people and replace Biden's electors with Trump's.
The evidence we have now about the blueprint for Trump's coup attempt is utterly damning
Eastman was Trump's master of self-serving constitutional bafflegab. His job was to spin elaborate pseudo-legal theories to justify Trump's assault on democracy. It was Eastman who wrote the
notorious memos outlining his fanciful legal arguments for why the vice president has the power to unilaterally reelect himself. Eastman also co-wrote
a blueprint for how Trump could use the military, the police, and criminal gangs to hold onto power after a disputed election. Eastman even spoke at Trump's rally on the Ellipse, making wild allegations of election fraud before Trump set the mob on the Capitol.
To understand January 6, you have to think in terms of an inside game and an outside game. The inside game was to steal the election procedurally. The outside game was to gather a mob to terrorize officials into going along with it. Eastman was a conceptual architect of both the paper coup attempt and of the plan for the political repression that Trumpists expected to follow in the wake of the theft.
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It all comes back to the Big Lie of massive Democratic voter fraud in the swing states. Trump used the fantasy of a stolen election to gather his supporters in Washington for a "wild protest" on January 6, whip them into a rage and set them on the Capitol. Eastman used the same lie to justify his schemes to overturn the election procedurally “”””