.MaddowBlog: For the second time this week, a lawyer close to Former President Trump has told the Jan. 6 committee that he will plead the Fifth.
in the Electoral Count Act and set aside the Electoral College votes of seven states. That would put Trump in the lead, but it would also leave both candidates short of a majority., the election would shift to the U.S. House, where Republicans controlled enough state delegations to keep Trump in power, despite his defeat.
This was, in other words, an apparent document — written by a lawyer representing the then-president — that effectively outlined how Republicans could execute something resembling a coup. Eastman evenAnd now, rather than cooperate with the bipartisan congressional investigation, Eastman is pleading the Fifth.
"While Dr. Eastman emphatically denies committing any illegal acts, he nonetheless has a reasonable fear that the requested information could be used against him in court," his lawyer wrote. Remember, as recently as 2016, it was Trump himself who derided those who asserted their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination."The mob takes the Fifth Amendment," the then-candidate
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