Trump lawyer knew plan to delay Biden certification was unlawful, emails show
by Hugo Lowell in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#5WYR1)
John Eastman conceded that scheme represented violation of Electoral Count Act but urged Mike Pence to go ahead anyway
Interrupting the certification of Joe Biden's election win on 6 January last year as part of the scheme to return Donald Trump to office was known to be unlawful by at least one of the former president's lawyers, according to an email exchange about the potential conspiracy.
The former Trump lawyer John Eastman - who helped coordinate the scheme from the Trump war room" at the Willard hotel in Washington - conceded in an email to counsel for then vice-president Mike Pence, Greg Jacob, that the plan was a violation of the Electoral Count Act.
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