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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJohn Eastman vs. the Eastman Memo
National ReviewThe issue here is that Eastman says the Eastman memo does not accurately represent Eastmans own views or legal advice to Pence or Trump, claiming that the two-page version published in Peril was preliminary and a final version presented various scenarios intended for internal discussion.
In two separate phone interviews this month, Eastman spoke to National Review for nearly an hour total about the memos he drafted and his private meeting in the White House on January 4 with President Trump, Vice President Pence, Pences legal counsel Greg Jacob, and Pences chief of staff Marc Short.
The two-page memo published in Peril was drafted on Christmas Eve, and a final six-page memo was drafted on January 3, says Eastman. They were internal discussion memos for the legal team. I had been asked to put together a memo of all the available scenarios that had been floated, Eastman says. I was asked to kind of outline how each of those scenarios would work and then orally present my views on whether I thought they were valid or not, so thats what those memos did.
Who asked Eastman to write the first memo? It was somebody in the legal team. I just dont recall, Eastman says. It was by a phone conversation, and Ive gone back in my phone records, and I have so many calls, I cant tell, you know, which call it was.
In two separate phone interviews this month, Eastman spoke to National Review for nearly an hour total about the memos he drafted and his private meeting in the White House on January 4 with President Trump, Vice President Pence, Pences legal counsel Greg Jacob, and Pences chief of staff Marc Short.
The two-page memo published in Peril was drafted on Christmas Eve, and a final six-page memo was drafted on January 3, says Eastman. They were internal discussion memos for the legal team. I had been asked to put together a memo of all the available scenarios that had been floated, Eastman says. I was asked to kind of outline how each of those scenarios would work and then orally present my views on whether I thought they were valid or not, so thats what those memos did.
Who asked Eastman to write the first memo? It was somebody in the legal team. I just dont recall, Eastman says. It was by a phone conversation, and Ive gone back in my phone records, and I have so many calls, I cant tell, you know, which call it was.
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John Eastman vs. the Eastman Memo (Original Post)
brooklynite
Oct 2021
OP
It is. It's not like a money laundering scheme funneled through shell companies.happened on liveTV
Walleye
Oct 2021
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Ohioboy
(3,222 posts)1. In other words...
Eastman and a team were conspiring to overturn the election. They were going over scenarios. That's what it sounds like to me. Now it's just a matter of who this team consisted of.
Walleye
(30,704 posts)3. Yes get these guys under oath, ask them what they expected to accomplish
Ohioboy
(3,222 posts)4. If Eastman can't remember exactly who asked for the first memo so what...
Who was looking at those memos? Who were his conspirators? That's all. It's really very simple. I think.
Walleye
(30,704 posts)5. It is. It's not like a money laundering scheme funneled through shell companies.happened on liveTV
Walleye
(30,704 posts)2. The memo should've simply said, no way, the election has been certified it's over
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)6. Jim Jones Would Not Have Approved Of That
They needed to please their Cult Leader. Only good news allowed.
ShazamIam
(2,559 posts)7. He is trying to claim he was only a messenger, not a plotter.