A previously unseen legal memorandum by a lawyer from former president Donald Trump’s failed 2020 re-election campaign laid out how the ex-president’s efforts to interfere with certification of that year’s electoral college results were meant to buy time and delay the quadrennial joint session at which Mr Trump’s defeat to Joe Biden would be made final and official.
The memo, which was first reported on by The New York Times, was referenced in the four-count indictment returned against former president Donald Trump by a Washington DC grand jury last month. It was authored by Kenneth Chesebro, an attorney affiliated with the Trump campaign who is described — but not named — in the indictment as an un-indicted co-conspirator in Mr Trump’s alleged conspiracy to obstruct certification of the 2020 election.
