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To stay in power. >> reporter: "the new york times" made public a memo yesterday from a lawyer that now shows us a little bit more about the advice donald trump was getting after the election in 2020 in late december. so this memo that "the new york times" made public is from a lawyer named william olson. we haven't heard a lot about him in the past. he was among the fringe right-wing attorneys giving trump advice, and he discloses that he and donald trump spoke on christmas day and then in this memo he tells donald trump the lawyers trump had around him in the administration, in the justice d...

That would challenge the election result, what voters had decided for the presidency. and then he says if trump can't get that through he should fire the doj leader ship, get other people in place to help him. and then he tells trump when we're also working on what else you can do, we can look into other powers of the presidency, and he writes the media will call this martial law, but that is fake news. and so that is the advice from william olson to donald trump and, of course, trump does follow up on some of these things just a few days later. we see trump again looking into potentially repl...

A lawyer pushing the baseless claim of massive fraud in the 2020 election urged former US president Donald Trump to overturn his loss through steps that would be viewed as

And then he says if trump can't get that through, he should fire the doj leadership, get other people in place to help him. and then he tells trump when we are also working on what else you can do, we can look into other powers of the presidency, and he writes the media will call this martial law, but that is fake news. and so that is the advice from william olson to donald trump and, of course, trump does follow up on some of these things just a few days later. we see trump again looking into potentially replacing his attorney general with someone who is sympathetic to these ideas. boris and ...

The memo obtained by the Times revealed Olson’s role in efforts by right-wing actors outside the White House to convince Trump to overturn the victory of his Democratic foe, Joe Biden.