I cannot answer that equals a YES. Thanks to the FBI for the confirmation that they knew, facilitated and took part in the protest that became somewhat violent after their incitement of said "insurrection"
Retired Republican judge says January 6 was 'well-developed plan' by Trump to cling to power https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/politics/luttig-statement-trump-plan-january-6-committee/index.html Retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig, a Republican who is testifying at Thursday's January 6 committee hearing, will provide a sharp condemnation of former President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election, saying Trump and his allies "instigated" a war on democracy "so that he could cling to power," according to a written statement he intends to submit for the committee's record obtained exclusively by CNN. Luttig outlined in his statement how close he believed democracy came to the brink. "It is breathtaking that these arguments even were conceived, let alone entertained by the President of the United States at that perilous moment in history," Luttig wrote. "Had the Vice President of the United States obeyed the President of the United States, America would immediately have been plunged into what would have been tantamount to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis." Luttig will testify at Thursday's House select committee hearing on the US Capitol attack, which is focused on Trump's pressure campaign against then-Vice President Mike Pence to try to overturn the 2020 election on January 6, 2021. Luttig was involved in advising the Pence team against claims from Trump allies like attorney John Eastman, who wrote a memo saying Pence had the power to single-handedly block the certification of the election for Joe Biden. Luttig concluded that January 6 "was the final fateful day for the execution of a well-developed plan by the former president to overturn the 2020 presidential election at any cost." The retired judge praised Pence for his actions on January 6 and his willingness to stand up to Trump and his allies. "There were many cowards on the battlefield on January 6," Luttig wrote. "The Vice President was not among them." On January 5, 2021 -- after Pence's lawyer, Richard Cullen, called Luttig asking for help -- Luttig tweeted a statement explaining that the Constitution gave Pence no powers to reject electors and overturn the election, as Trump was demanding. Pence cited the statement in his letter on January 6 explaining why he would defy Trump and certify the election. Luttig wrote in his statement to the committee: "From their inception, the legal arguments that underlaid the efforts to overturn the 2020 election were, in that context, little more than beguiling and frivolous, perhaps appropriate for academic classroom debate, but singularly inappropriate as counsel to the President of the United States of America in his effort to overturn the presidential election -- an election he had lost fair and square and as to which there was not then, and there is not to this day, evidence of fraud." Luttig's role pushing back against Trump's efforts to subvert the election were all the more noteworthy because of his stature as a judge in Republican circles. Eastman, who drafted the point-by-point memo claiming Pence could stop the certification on January 6, was a clerk for Luttig. Another former clerk: Sen. Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican who voted against certifying the election on January 6 and organized a group of Republican senators who sought to delay certification leading up to that day. In his statement, Luttig also warned that the efforts to overturn the election in 2020 amounted to an attack on American democracy, a threat he said continues today thanks to Trump's ongoing claims that election was stolen from him. "This false and reckless insistence that the former president won the 2020 presidential election has laid waste to Americans' confidence in their national elections," Luttig wrote. "More alarming still is that the former president pledges that his reelection will not be 'stolen' from him next time around, and his Republican Party allies and supporters obeisantly pledge the same." Luttig also offered a defense of the committee's focus on January 6, warning that "America's democracy was almost stolen from us" and urging the American public to pay attention. "No American ought to turn away from January 6, 2021," he said, "until all of America comes to grips with what befell our country that day, and we decide what we want for our democracy from this day, forward."
Trump lawyer cited ‘heated fight’ among Supreme Court justices over election: report https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...-supreme-court-justices-over-election-report/ Lawyer and adviser to former President Trump, John Eastman, said in an email exchange shortly after the 2020 presidential election that four Supreme Court justices were in a “heated fight” over whether to take up a case involving poll results in Wisconsin, according to a report in The New York Times. Two people familiar with the emails told the outlet that Eastman described the discussions between the Supreme Court justices as “heated” while the Trump campaign deliberated on bringing another election case to the court. Eastman was exchanging emails with pro-Trump lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who backed Trump’s false claims of election fraud. In one exchange, Chesebro said that the “odds of action before Jan. 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be ‘wild’ chaos on Jan. 6 unless they rule by then, either way.” The emails came after the Supreme Court had already rejected two of Trump’s election fraud cases. “I don’t have the personal insight that John has into the four justices likely to be most upset about what is happening in the various states, who might want to intervene, so I should make it clear that I don’t discount John’s estimate,” Chesebro said in an email, according to The Times. “I think the odds of action before Jan. 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be ‘wild’ chaos on Jan. 6 unless they rule by then, either way,” Chesebro said. “Though that factor could go against us on the merits. Easiest way to quell chaos would be to rule against us — our side would accept that result as legitimate.” Eastman also had email exchanges with Ginni Thomas, wife to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Eastman previously served as a clerk for Justice Thomas. content and timing of the emails with Ginni Thomas were not clear. The existence of the emails between Eastman and Ginni Thomas was first reported by The Washington Post. In the exchanges with Chesebro, Eastman argued that giving the justices a Wisconsin cert petition, one of the states Trump has claimed election fraud, could help aid them in their discussions. “So the odds are not based on the legal merits but an assessment of the justices’ spines, and I understand that there is a heated fight underway,” Eastman said in the email, sources told The Times. The Jan. 6 Committee investigating the Capitol riot is looking at the emails as well as examining texts between Ginni Thomas and Eastman. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the Jan. 6 House committee, said Thursday in an appearance on CNN that he could not yet explain why the committee has subpoenaed Ginni Thomas, adding he “can’t talk about specific witnesses like that.” Along with the Eastman messages, Ginni Thomas was encouraging electors in Arizona to reject the results of the 2020 election in that state. The Hill has reached out to Ginni Thomas, Eastman’s lawyer, the Jan.6 committee and the Supreme Court for comment.