On Christmas Day in 2020, William was able to speak to Donald Trump.
The plan that was sent to him was to fire the attorney general.
The New York Times obtained a memo detailing how to stay in power.
A lawyer who once worked in the Nixon White House sent a plan to the president to help him stay in power.
The memo was sent to Trump in December of 2020. The range of right-wing figures who were in the president's ear as he sought to subvert the election results were highlighted a few days before Christmas.
The memo and call hadn't been reported before.
The president had options despite the fact that people around him at the White House and Justice Department were not doing enough to contest the election results. He said a White House lawyer had a "shameful and disrespectful attitude."
The memo said that time was short when they spoke on Christmas Day.
The existence of the Constitutional Republic is slipping away and you have a duty to prevent this electoral fraud on the American people.
He outlined a five-part plan that included Trump hiring new lawyers and leaving Mar-a-Lago to return to the White House.
Trump ordered the acting attorney general to file a lawsuit on behalf of the US the next day. Trump should be fired or reassigned if he refused.
"This step will likely lead to a thousand stories making an anaolgy [sic] to Saturday Night Massacre in 1973, when President Nixon ordered AG Elliot Richardson to fire Archibald Cox as a special counsel investigating Watergate," he wrote.
The firing of the special prosecutor investigating Nixon's involvement in the Watergate scandal was referred to as the Saturday Night massacre. Both the Attorney General and the deputy attorney general resigned. Robert Bork was the third most senior Justice Department official. The episode was bad news for Nixon.
The powers of the presidency would be identified by the new White House counsel.
A small group of lawyers are working on a memo that will explain what you can do. He wrote that the media would call it martial law, but it was actually fake news.
You can read the full memo here.
There has never been evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. A group of Republican lawyers, judges, and lawmakers released a report that said there was no evidence of widespread fraud.
The CEO of MyPillow is facing lawsuits for promoting false claims about the election.
According to his website, he was an intern in the White House during Nixon's time in office.
He did not respond to the request for comment.
Business Insider has an article on it.
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