Yet another revelation that everything was/is even worse than it had appeared. From The New York Times:
A lawyer advising [John Eastman] President Donald J. Trump claimed in an email after Election Day 2020 to have insight into a “heated fight” among the Supreme Court justices over whether to hear arguments about the president’s efforts to overturn his defeat at the polls, two people briefed on the email said. . . .And as the Times notes, Eastman and Virginia Thomas had been exchanging e-mails.
Mr. Eastman’s email, if taken at face value, raised the question of how he would have known about internal tension among the justices about dealing with election cases. Mr. Eastman had been a clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas.
Notice too the threat of calculated chaos that supported the scheme to challenge election results in the Supreme Court: “Be there, will be wild!” Trump tweeted on December 19, 2020. And then a pro-Trump lawyer to Eastman, circa December 24: “odds of action before Jan. 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be ‘wild’ chaos on Jan. 6 unless they rule by then, either way.”
[Post title: after “Tinker to Evans to Chance.”]
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Charlie Malloy was described as “a killer in a camel-hair coat.” Hard to imagine any of Cheeto’s minions actually getting their hands dirty by killing anyone. I thought Eastman’s Jan. 6 getup looked like a cross between Crocodile Dundee and John Gotti.
I was thinking of the well-dressed fixer-lawyer resemblance. But yes, Eastman would keep away from any violence himself.
(I think you meant to leave a comment on the other post, but no matter.)
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