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skip fox

(19,359 posts)
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 06:51 AM Oct 2021

Who helped J. Eastman write his memo showing Trump how to overturn the 2020 election?

As Rachel Maddow contended, John Eastman the Trump lawyer who sought to help him overturn the election by writing a multi-step plan in a three-page detailed memo, almost certainly did not write the memo himself. Who, then, did?

The Claremont Institute, the conservative tank that now employs Eastman, are characterizing the memo as simply “legal advice” and contend it has “been maliciously misrepresented and distorted by major media outlets.”

If other lawyers, maybe associated with a think tank, aided Eastman, that's conspiracy.

Is there reporting on this issue?

Speculations?

(Because of how CNN reported part of the issue this a.m., Claremont sounds complicit.)

There are straight-up, stone-cold traitors out there who need to be exposed and prosecuted.

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Here's the Maddow story:

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/lawyers-seek-investigation-author-pro-trump-eastman-memo-n1280892

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Who helped J. Eastman write his memo showing Trump how to overturn the 2020 election? (Original Post) skip fox Oct 2021 OP
And... 2naSalit Oct 2021 #1
Claremont values their reputation above democracy. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2021 #2
It's hard to see how this "legal advice" could be "taken out of context". Midnight Writer Oct 2021 #3
Don't you know? All "legal advice" is "legal" because KPN Oct 2021 #5
Not to worry. As soon as the the writer of the insurrection plans Farmer-Rick Oct 2021 #4
Trying to destroy the greatest democracy ever created. Joinfortmill Oct 2021 #6
Well, no offense but it's not really a Democracy. Justice matters. Oct 2021 #7
"almost certainly did not write the memo himself" - it doesn't say that in the article muriel_volestrangler Oct 2021 #8

Farmer-Rick

(10,212 posts)
4. Not to worry. As soon as the the writer of the insurrection plans
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 08:40 AM
Oct 2021

Is fully identified, he will be given a seat at Harvard law.

Justice matters.

(6,941 posts)
7. Well, no offense but it's not really a Democracy.
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 09:19 AM
Oct 2021

A true Democracy is a system where the majority of voters decide who the leader of the government will be each term, and the majority the leader (male or female) leads takes advice from the minority leader(s).

muriel_volestrangler

(101,361 posts)
8. "almost certainly did not write the memo himself" - it doesn't say that in the article
Tue Oct 12, 2021, 09:42 AM
Oct 2021

and I don't see why you would assume it. Eastman, as well as being a shit human being, is an experienced lawyer, quite capable of writing that memo.

Claremont is trying to rescue its own reputation among conservatives. But they're about 5 years too late for that, having been closely associated with Trumpism all that time.

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