TPM – Talking Points Memo
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A trove of documents obtained by TPM reveal how a group of conservative movement attorneys set out to build a legal pathway by which Donald Trump could stay in power.
They imagined a Jan. 6 that lasted for hours but days , an intervention by Supreme Court justices that they presumed to be loyal to President Trump , and a vice president who upended his constitutional duties, allowing the U.S. to descend into chaos.
Documents reveal how a small group of attorneys designed and tried to implement the portion of the coup attempt which unfolded via legal arguments.
They burnished the former president’s efforts with a veneer of respectability that at times masked their radicalism.
Chesebro at one point referred to Pence declining to open electoral votes from Georgia as a “fairly boss move;” at another, he forgets that Biden , and not Pence, was Vice President in 2016 .
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