Anger as Trump holds private event to celebrate lawyer who tried to overturn 2020 election result

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Donald Trump is facing criticism for premiering a documentary over the weekend at Mar-a-Lago about an allied lawyer who helped him strategize about how to overturn the 2020 election results. The film, The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare of Justice, profiles lawyer John Eastman, who helped Donald Trump formulate an unprecedented, illegal plan to use Congress and the vice-president to overturn the certification of the 2020 election results. Other election deniers were also at the event, including his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former trade official Peter Navarro, who helped devise a separate plan from Eastman’s to reject the 2020 results and later spent time in prison for being in contempt of the January 6 congressional committee. That’s why they changed the law and nobody wants to talk about that.They said he’s not allowed to do it, he’s not allowed to do it, and they convinced him he’s not allowed to do it — our vice president — then right after the election they changed the law so he can’t do it.” The comments were a reference to President Biden in 2022 signing changes to the archaic Electoral Count Act, clarifying that the vice president plays a ceremonial role and that each state only has one lawful slate of electors.