Milley (R) listens while US President Donald Trump speaks before a meeting with senior military leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC on October 7, 2019. Since Republicans controlled 26 state delegations, a majority could vote for Trump to win the election.Ĭhairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army General Mark A. That would throw the election to the House of Representatives, where each state would get one vote. Anticipating “howls” from Democrats protesting the overturning of the election, the memo proposes, Pence would instead say that no candidate had reached 270 votes in the Electoral College. Under Eastman’s scheme, Pence would have declared Trump the winner with more Electoral College votes after the seven states were thrown out, at 232 votes to 222. In fact, no state had actually put forward an alternate slate of electors – there were merely Trump allies claiming without any authority to be electors. The Eastman memo laid out a six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election for Trump, which included throwing out the results in seven states because they allegedly had competing electors.
You’re wasting your time,” Lee said to Trump’s lawyers trying to overturn the results in Georgia, according to the book.
“You might as well make your case to Queen Elizabeth II. But both Lee and Graham scoffed at the arguments and found they had no merit. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina of election fraud. Mike Lee of Utah and how Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani tried to convince fellow Republican Sen. “Peril,” which will be released Tuesday, details how Eastman’s memo was sent to GOP Sen. The effort to sway Pence was just one of several behind-the-scenes attempts that Trump’s team undertook ahead of January 6 in a desperate bid to overturn the 2020 election loss, after dozens of lawsuits were thrown out of the courts. READ: Trump lawyer's memo on six-step plan for Pence to overturn the election
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