before appendix. this week we ll examine one pernicious aspect of trump s efforts to stay in power, in chapter five, cool in search of a legal theory. the chapter details the lengths to which donald trump, his lawyer john eastman, knowingly pushed an illegal scheme to have then vice president mike pence unilaterally throw out joe biden s victory and hand the presidency to trump s. yesterday we spoke to committee member jamie raskin of maryland about the criminal referrals the committee made against trump in some of his closest allies and why he thinks trump is likely to go to prison for his attempted coup. and while the report does an excellent and thorough job of centering donald trump s culpability, as the main first, as the man first and foremost responsible for the attempted coup an insurrection, it also extensively catalog several some of his key enablers played in facilitating his corrupt scheme. like the aforementioned john eastman, the cool mentioned earlier, as well
rights marine corps general and former homeland security general john kelly, former congressman mick mulvaney, all spit up by trump during his tumultuous tenure as president. servings doldrums chief of staff, a person instantly responsible for reigning in the ex presidents worst impulses, sounds of course like a genuine nightmare assignment. but here s the thing about meadows. and i m not sure anyone quite expected this when he decided to take the job, at least the people close to him or who served with him in congress. meadows exceeded where his pretenders failed precisely because he did not try to rein in the worst impulses. he enabled those impulses in donald trump instead. as the report makes clear, time and time and time again, meadows was a key player in plotting trump s attempted coup, even though meadows knew trump s big lie of a stolen election was bogus. former trump lawyer alice