“There’s no precedent for saying that a close adviser of the president—and potentially even the president himself—may have committed a crime by trying to prevent the lawful transfer of power.”
memo he circulated suggesting that Vice President Mike Pence could stop the 2020 election vote certification. Congressional lawyers argue that Eastman and Trump must have known this idea was outrageous. The lawyers attach testimony from a senior campaign adviser to Trump, who explains that a data expert had come to the White House to break the news that Trump was going to lose. So essentially, people in the White House should have known better.
Look, he’s not my lawyer, I don’t know what he was doing, I was hearing about an occasional meeting, but whatever he was doing with Pence’s lawyer and whatever things he was saying, he was not my agentCan you lay out how this filing makes the case against Trump himself? What are the potential charges, and how are they supported by the evidence in this filing?There are two potential criminal charges identified in this filing.
If you’re wondering how the Department of Justice would AVOID charging Trump after seeing a filing like this one, it’s because the evidence we know about so far doesn’t actually meet the standard for a successful criminal case. Instead, the filing basically says: We’ve got a theory here, and if we got our hands on John Eastman’s documents, we just might be able to prove it.
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