'What they tried was insane': Conservative sets fellow right-wingers straight about Trump and Jan. 6

A conservative attorney who writes under the pseudonym A.G. Hamilton and who has written articles for the conservative National Review took his fellow right-wingers to task on Twitter Sunday for incorrectly framing special counsel Jack Smith's newest indictment of former President Donald Trump as a matter of "free speech." He then pointed to attorney John Eastman's memo that falsely claimed then-Vice President Mike Pence had the power to singlehandedly reject election results, which Hamilton noted would make the American republic completely ungovernable. To make his readers understand the faultiness of Eastman's reasoning, he asked them to imagine how they would feel if Democrats attempted to employ such a strategy in 2024. all Dems have to do is find random people to claim Biden won and that they are alternate electors in a few states and Kamala Harris would be able to disqualify the real electors in those states and declare Biden the winner," he wrote. "Even though Eastman knows all of this is illegal nonsense that is essentially an attempt to destroy the Constitution and steal an election, his last argument is basically that the legality doesn't matter because they can just tell the courts they shouldn't get involved because it's a political question," he added.