Newly revealed emails show that former Donald Trump attorney John Eastman urged Republican officials in Pennsylvania to throw out thousands of absentee ballots and recount the commonwealth’s popular vote to show Mr Trump leading there in an effort to ultimatley overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election.
According to Politico, Mr Eastman wrote that Republican legislators could cite concerns with the absentee ballot process to remove mail-in votes and show Mr Trump leading in the vote count, a move that he wrote would “provide some cover” to replace the commonwealth’s electors with pro-Trump partisans.
