The New York Times reports:
Around 5 in the afternoon on Christmas Day in 2020, as many Americans were celebrating with family, President Donald J. Trump was at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, Fla., on the phone with a little-known conservative lawyer who was encouraging his attempts to overturn the election, according to a memo the lawyer later wrote documenting the call.
The lawyer, William J. Olson, was promoting several extreme ideas to the president. Mr. Olson later conceded some of them could be regarded as tantamount to declaring “martial law” and could even invite comparisons with Watergate. The plan included tampering with the Justice Department and firing the acting attorney general, according to the Dec. 28 memo by Mr. Olson, titled “Preserving Constitutional Order,” describing their discussions.
The involvement of a person like Mr. Olson, who now represents the conspiracy theorist and MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell, underscores how the system that would normally insulate a president from rogue actors operating outside of official channels had broken down within weeks after the 2020 election.
Read the full article. There’s so much more.
Olson first appeared on JMG in 2010 when he testified against the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on behalf of the lobbying group, Gun Owners of America.
William Olson, a little-known conservative lawyer, encouraged Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election with ideas that Olson later conceded could be regarded as tantamount to declaring “martial law” and even invite comparisons with Watergate. https://t.co/5sonnuBeJ0
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 16, 2022
Lawyer’s plan for Trump to overturn 2020 election included firing acting AG https://t.co/2govXL6x93
— Axios (@axios) July 16, 2022
Read the full memo from William Olson to Trump, which we tried to capture in the story as one of the most extreme known of so far during that period. The J6 committee is interested in learning more about Olson and Trump, per sources https://t.co/C0dtUP5crP
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 16, 2022