Former US President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to overturn the results of the presidential election held in November last year.
According to CNN in the United States on the 20th (local time), the Washington Post's associate editors Bob Woodward and reporters Robert Costa will reveal these details in their book 'Peril', which will be published soon.
Reporters Woodward and Costa obtained a two-page memo envisioned by former President Trump's attorney, John Eastman, which contained a six-step plan to change the outcome of President Joe Biden's victory.
In January of this year, the U.S. Congress confirmed the election of Democratic President Biden by validating the results of the state's electoral college votes at a joint meeting of the House and Senate.
In the United States, indirect voting, in which voters elect the electoral college for the president of each state, has a total electoral college of 538.
However, Eastman's memo shows that former President Trump's side persuaded then Vice President Mike Pence, ex-president of the Senate, to push for a plan to discard the results of the seven states.
President Trump's side was trying to come up with the logic of not accepting the results as some states are competing for the electoral college.
At the end of last year, Republican Congressman Louis Gomert said Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin each sent two conflicting electoral lists to Congress.
This means that Trump is dissatisfied with the election results in these states and has claimed that it has formed an electoral college separate from the official electoral college.
If the results of these seven states are discarded, neither Biden nor Trump will be able to secure a majority of 270 electoral votes.
If the Presidential Electoral College does not vote, the power to elect the President passes to the House of Representatives under the Constitution's 'Emergency Election Situation' provisions.
In the House of Representatives, each state can cast one vote, and at that time, the Republican Party controlled more House than the Democrats, so it is a scenario that former President Trump can be elected.
Eastman's plan was first communicated to former Vice President Pence on January 4, two days before a joint meeting of the House and Senate.
According to CNN, former President Trump has urged former Vice President Pence to cooperate, saying he needs to listen to Eastman's plans.
However, on January 6, Pence rejected former President Trump's demands, saying he did not have the power to overrule the electoral vote, and Biden's election was confirmed.
On that day, former President Trump publicly criticized former Vice President Mike Pence on Twitter, saying, "Mike Pence doesn't have the courage to do what should have been done to defend our country and our Constitution."
On the day Biden was confirmed as president, former Trump supporters broke into Congress and provoked violence.
In this regard, Eastman argued in the Washington Post that his memo was nothing more than an analysis of all the options raised.