we are waiting to see if and when they will put steve bannon on trial in that matter. but, again, the prospect of accountability there, that s a glimmer. those glimmers today also arrive alongside a bizarre turn today for a trump lawyer named john eastman. he s an obscure figure who got famous through this whole scandal when he wrote the notorious eastman memo which laid out the theory of the case basically behind the january 6th attack on the capitol. what trump demanded of the crowd at that rally january 6th, before his supporters rushed to the capitol, what trump demanded of them, what people like eastman himself and other speakers that day told the mob they would accomplish if they, in trump s words, fought like hell that day was a specific thing. it was this scenario that was laid out in eastman s memo in which he said the vice president, mike pence, shouldn t accept the electors from swing states that biden won.