Politico reports that drumpf lawyers John Eastman and Kenneth Chesebro exchanged a series of e-mails on December 31st, 2020, six days before the Capito Riot, discussing the necessity of of getting a protest of Georgia’s certified count of electoral votes before SCOTUS Judge Clarence Thomas for action, hopefully, in their minds, a ruling to reverse the certification of Georgia’s electors and prevent a vote in Congress on January 6.

Thomas presides over the 11th Circuit Court District, in which Georgia is included.

“Donald Trump’s attorneys saw a direct appeal to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as their best hope of derailing Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election, according to emails newly disclosed to congressional investigators.

“We want to frame things so that Thomas could be the one to issue some sort of stay or other circuit justice opinion saying Georgia is in legitimate doubt,” Trump attorney Kenneth Chesebro wrote in a Dec. 31, 2020, email to Trump’s legal team. Chesebro contended that Thomas would be “our only chance to get a favorable judicial opinion by Jan. 6, which might hold up the Georgia count in Congress.”

“I think I agree with this,” attorney John Eastman replied later that morning, suggesting that a favorable move by Thomas or other justices would “kick the Georgia legislature into gear” to help overturn the election results.

The messages were part of a batch of eight emails — obtained by POLITICO — that Eastman had sought to withhold from the Jan. 6 select committee but that a judge ordered turned over anyway, describing them as evidence of likely crimes committed by Eastman and Trump. They were transmitted to the select committee by Eastman’s attorneys last week, but they have not been publicly released.

And the role Ginni Thomas was not neglected in the article:

“Ginni Thomas became the focus of congressional investigators after text message emerged showing her urging Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, to continue efforts to keep Trump in power despite losing the 2020 election. She interviewed with the Jan. 6 panel earlier in the fall.”

As well as the cat and mouse game to try to get Trump’s signature on the filing while limiting his criminal legal exposure:

“The emails also shed new light on an effort to get Trump to sign documents connected to a Dec. 31, 2020, federal lawsuit challenging the election results in Georgia, including acute concerns Trump’s lawyers voiced during that chaotic period that Trump might put himself in legal jeopardy if he attested to the voter fraud data contained in it…

… After some exchanges, including with Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann, the lawyers agreed they would remove some of the specific figures before Trump swore to the accuracy of the lawsuit.”

Trump’s lawyers sought to keep these e-mail from seeing the light of day, arguing executive privilege, but we are seeing them now because they were ordered turned over to The J6 committee by Judge David Carter in an earlier ruling who noted that drumpf signed the documents knowing that the accusations of fraud were not accurate.

You can read all of the e-mails at the Politico link.

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14 COMMENTS

  1. LOCK HIS ASS UP!!!! ARREST HIM. CHARGE HIM. PUT HIS ASS BEHIND BARS!!! Either that or have a bonfire for all the legal books full of horseshit justifying the arrest & imprisonment of over 2 million citizens while this criminal, WITH A MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE WE’VE ALL SEEN & HEARD, GOES FREE. Cue up the rationalizations. Cowards.

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    • Unless you can prove it all beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law (and I’m sorry, not sorry, but anonymously sourced articles fail that standard), this is just primal scream therapy. Hate on this legal system we got all you want. One thing you make repeatedly clear is you’ve got no workable alternative that’s better.

      • Ok. Cool. Let’s get after it then. Let’s perp walk the mother fucker into custody and get this little shit show started. Until Garland gets those charges filed, former guy is thumbing his nose at our legal system. Quite frankly I’m sick to fucking death of rich people and corporations thumbing their noses at our legal system REAL fucking sick of it.

        Scott is not the only one getting fed up by this bull shit. Not by a long shot. We’ve watched this dumb mother fucker get away with shit that would put you or I away for a very long time and yet, low and behold, orange boy is still dancing around wearing the ass hat and enjoying his worthless fucking life. It’s not hating on the legal system when you’re tired of watching the ones in charge do nothing while the ones who have attempted to tear down our country and all it’s institutions do not pay the price for their activities.

    • Yup, and in the meantime, while Trumpler’s free, he’s recruiting more followers to his corrupt cause, fundraising from his moronic disciples and crooked GOP donors, stymying the legal system all over the land with his delays and obfuscations, and generally making a mockery of all that the nation stands for. He needs to be charged and tried, just like any other citizen would be. How long do we the people have to wait for our justice system to work?

    • Well, your first three statements of outrage can happen with minimal effort. The fourth, however, requires a bit more effort. For starters, it’s virtually impossible to put someone’s ass “behind bars” even just to await trial for things they SAY (or write)–even if the words are determined to be “inflammatory,” if the SPEAKER (or writer) does not actually perform a physical criminal action (eg, arson, breaking and entering, assault, etc), then there’s little LEGAL recourse that would demand the person be put “behind bars.” Then, of course, with a trial, you have to find a jury that, upon listening to ALL the evidence and the defense, would find the person guilty of something that would merit “behind bars.”

      We saw dozens of efforts by law enforcement to hold the leaders of white supremacist and antisemitic groups accountable for the actions their followers took and NOT A SINGLE TRIAL resulted in a conviction of the *leaders*; many of the followers wound up spending years (a few life sentences as well for murders) behind bars but not one of the leaders. None of the jurors in the cases was willing to throw someone behind bars for ONLY THEIR WORDS. They had little hesitation in convicting people who’d actually killed people and torched synagogues but for simply speaking offensive words? No. (And it is EXTREMELY difficult to produce a DIRECT connection between what someone said and what someone else did. The leaders NEVER directly said, “Go do this” at any point so just because a follower went out and killed someone, well, you’ve basically got a Thomas Becket situation.)

      • Not entirely. Yes, we’d like that buffoon to pay for the J6 insurrection but that is not the only thing the feds have on him: he took classified documents off premises. That is quite illegal. What in the fuck is Garland waiting for? The mango moron to get through selling them to the highest bidder?

  2. Okay, this is all Bye-bye Land BS theory. And the fact that it’s coming out NOW? Means that’s going to come up in some charges that will be rolling up soon, probably before end of the year. If THIS was their thought process, they never stood a chance of winning, not with this kind of botched execution.

  3. The cartoon is utterly unbelievable. Thomas spending time “deciphering Madison’s thoughts” on anything?

    BWAHAHAHA!!!!!

    The man doesn’t have the cognitive skills to decipher a simple code (of A=B, B=C, etc to Z=A) much less the far more intelligently constructed thoughts of one of our Founding Fathers.

    Now, I’ll go back and read the article.

  4. Well Joe the first step is to arrest someone. Trump has so much evidence against him it’s ridiculous. Any citizen would be arrested. By the way the police do not call the DA to find out if they have an ironclad case before people get arrested. Being caught in the act, like hiding nuclear secrets after swearing on documents you have none is CONCRETE evidence of a crime. Your post comes across like an apologist for a biased system that pretends its all fair & square. If you actually believe there’s not enough evidence to charge him with something then people like you are part of the problem. Advocating for the two tier system WE ACTUALLY HAVE. By the way a number of former federal prosecutors have been saying for MONTHS he should have been charged long before now. If you disagree then join the sheep. I’ll go with my eyes ears & their expertise. Like I said cue up the rationalizations. Right on cue.

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      • Oh really? Good to know. I guess I can go knock off that convenience store I always pass on my way to work: they can’t just arrest people after all.

        Yes P.J., they CAN just arrest people. They CAN just arrest people not only when they KNOW the law has been broken, as we do with former guy, but they can arrest people they have reason to believe broke the law. There are a LOT of people filling up space in jails across the nation and here’s a news flash for you P.J.: not all of them are guilty of a crime.

        When we as a nation treat the well-heeled, the corporate big-wigs, the famous, etc. just like we treat the REST of the nation when it comes to crime, perhaps we’d have less crime. Why should ANYONE obey laws when it is quite obvious certain people don’t have to obey laws?

  5. It’s clear you armchair lawyers have NO DIRECT EXPERIENCE WITH THE LAW. You guys are closer to the Maga crowd than you realize…but but but but.

    • So, you would’ve been perfectly fine if Trump had his DOJ just arrest Hillary Clinton and put her in jail as he and his supporters chanted all through 2016 because they CLAIMED WITHOUT EVIDENCE that she’d committed some crime?

      That is EXACTLY the kind of bullshit that you keep spewing around here.

      You keep talking about “the law” but what YOU continually advocate is AUTHORITARIAN “LAW”–where someone can just be picked up for absolutely no reason and tossed in a jail cell without actual proof or even just a reasonable assumption. Is the legal system perfect? Of course not. But OUR system, even with its many flaws, is far better than so many other countries’. There are plenty of countries where a simple verbal or written comment critical of the government or the authorities will get you locked up (in Thailand, for instance, criticizing the King leads to a pretty automatic jail term; in Russia, criticism of Putin has actually led to people being imprisoned if they’re lucky and ending up dead if they’re not lucky).

      All you ACTUALLY have is SUSPICION of crimes. And the simple suspicion of a crime is NOT sufficient to put someone in jail.

      Please. By all means, TELL US ALL EXACTLY WHAT SPECIFIC CRIME Trump has committed and that YOU have documented evidence to prove that allegation.

      Until then, sod off. And if there’s ANYONE who’s “closer to the Maga crowd,” it’s you, Scotty since YOU are the one constantly demanding Trump be locked up WITHOUT so much as a trial. Again–speech is NOT actionable as a crime if the speaker did not actually commit a crime in the process. Trump may have whipped up the 1/6 crowd but show me the video of him actually entering the Capitol building with the mob. The relevant part of the old aphorism about “fire in a crowded theater” is the part that ALWAYS gets forgotten: You cannot FALSELY yell fire in a crowded theater (the logic is if there’s an actual fire in the theater, then you can yell it–it’s still a good idea to avoid yelling since people will likely panic but trying to contact the management might waste valuable time in evacuating the place).

  6. You are a liar joe. There’s multiple crimes he is directly attached to. I’ve NEVER advocated for someone with NO EVIDENCE to be arrested. There was no evidence on Hillary. Trump has been implicated in multiple crimes from financial crimes to the stealing of government documents including top secret documents. THERE ARE MULTIPLE FORMER PROSECUTERS WHO AGREE THERE IS AMPLE EVIDENCE TO ARREST HIM. You clearly are a self appointed expert. Have you personally been a victim of legal injustice? I seriously doubt it. I’ve always advocated for EQUAL TREATMENT UNDER THE LAW and my posts just keep pointing out the hypocrisy of that statement AS PRACTICED. Get some glasses, or reading comprehension classes. So you’re saying there’s no evidence??? Are you stupid? Blind? How about lying & signing false tax forms, statements etc.??? Or being caught with 11,000 stolen documents? Get a clue pal & stop making false allegations on what I have to say. You are great at verbal masturbation but your support to the fact the law does not operate with equal justice makes you dangerously close to being a Maga. They don’t believe in that principle. I do. Stop lying about my point. Oh and your argument that it’s the best system out there is a corrupt argument. So it’s OK the cannabis laws were put into place to get protesters off the streets by the criminal Nixon as admitted on tape by Haldeman? And are still being imprisoned on a lie? OK the law institutionalized slavery? Genocide? Let the rich walk on crimes? Clearly you are the one who doesn’t believe the LAW, which uses force to destroy people’s lives, should be held to the standard the law claims? God help all those sitting in jail who are innocent put there by assholes who have the support of pundits like you. I hold them to the standards they should be held to if they are going to show up at my door with guns. Since you personally have been above the fray doesn’t make you an expert except in your own mind. I have firsthand experience of the politics & corruption of the LAW. Experience trumps your privileged bull.

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