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An unknown conservative lawyer sent a letter to then-President Donald Trump on Dec. 28, 2020, selling methods, adding martial law, to cancel the 2020 election, according to a story published Sunday through the New York Times.
Marked as “privileged and confidential,” the memo was sent through William J. Olson a few days before New Year’s Eve 2020 in which the Trump loyalist laid out a five-point plan on how the president continues, which Olson thought, effectively voiding the election. results. ” You have a duty to prevent this voter fraud against the American people,” Olson wrote.
“While it’s time to act briefly when we speak on Christmas Day, time is about to run out,” Olson wrote, alluding to having a “long conversation” over the phone with the then-president about the plan on Dec. 25, 2020.
Olson’s first point: Seek out a pro-Trump lawyer “in any capacity that may seem appropriate,” because he understood that the president had suffered “the shameful and dismissive attitude of the White House counsel’s workplace counsel toward you personally, and more importantly toward you. “the workplace of the president of the United States himself. It’s unclear which lawyer Olson was referring to, but Pat Cipollone, the White House lawyer at the time. Trump spoke on the phone.
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Olson encouraged Trump to return to the White House, rather than stay at Mar-a-Lago, to combat the effects of the election because Olson “can’t do what you want done from Florida,” he wrote.
The right-wing lawyer also suggested that Trump ask acting Attorney General Jeff Rosen to file a lawsuit in the Supreme Court related to the results of the Pennsylvania election: “If he doesn’t do just that. . . Replace. ” However, Olson cautioned that Rosen’s firing or demotion may lead to negative media coverage, as the press would likely compare the move to the cascade of layoffs that Watergate dubbed the “Saturday Night Massacre. “
No court cases were ever filed. In June, Rosen told the Jan. 6 committee that he had refused to comply with Trump’s demands to prosecute voter fraud.
“Let others know that you may have been one of the candidates in the election, but that you are acting as president of the United States to maintain the electoral process. It is not only in his power, it is his solemn duty. Olson wrote.
This note highlights, as the January 6 hearings continue to do, the presence of unofficial advisers on the president after the 2020 elections.
Olson now represents Mike Lindell, a well-known Trump supporter and executive director of My Pillow. In January, Lindell sued the Jan. 6 committee after it cited his phone recordings. The New York Times also reported that the Jan. 6 committee sought to be more informed about Olson’s efforts to cancel the 2020 election.
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