A lawyer with deep ties to conservative groups and conspiracy theorists pushed several extreme ideas to then-President Trump to overturn the results of the 2020 elections, according to a document obtained by the New York Times…. Olson suggested that the DOJ would intercede directly with the Supreme Court to reverse Trump’s defeat. He also encouraged Trump to fire or reassign acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen if he would not use the DOJ to challenge the election in court. Olson acknowledged that doing so would draw negative media coverage…. “Our little band of lawyers is working on a memorandum that explains exactly what you can do,” Olson wrote in his memo to Trump. “The media will call this martial law … that is ‘fake news,'” Olson wrote.
