Pro-Trump conservative lawyer John Eastman can’t seem to keep his story straight, and he might want to work on that since the House select committee investigating the deadly January 6 insurrection plans to subpoena him. Eastman worked with then-President Donald Trump’s legal team and tried to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence that he could overturn the election results on January 6.
Eastman had outlined a 6 step memo to try to persuade Pence to subvert the Constitution and throw out the 2020 election results on January 6, according to CNN. Eastman keeps changing his story, though. A former federal prosecutor said on CNN that a video of Eastman taken by activist Lauren Windsor is an “incredibly damning” admission.
Watch the video taken by Windsor in which she got Eastman to talk by flattering him:
EXCLUSIVE: Author of January 6 coup memo John Eastman told us Mike Pence didn’t take his solid legal advice & overturn the election bc Pence is “an establishment guy”
(He previously told @NRO the memo was not “viable” and would have been “crazy” to pursue.)
Stay tuned for Part 2. pic.twitter.com/RQeUceH1bn
— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) October 26, 2021
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CNN took a good look at the video.
“The committee says Eastman tried to convince then Vice President Pence that he could overturn — overturn — the election results which, of course, Pence could not, legally, and ultimately decided not to do,” CNN’s Jim Scuitto said. “But now, in a conversation, caught-on-camera by a Democratic activist posing as a Trump supporter, Eastman admits — admits — on tape that was indeed the plan.”
“Eastman, after the memo that he drafted describing exactly this plan as to how the president could overturn the election, he then did an interview with the National Review online saying that’s never intended to do that,” Scuitto continued. “Here you have him on tape saying that’s exactly what we intended to do, in effect, and the only reason Pence stood in the way is he is, in Eastman’s terms, ‘an establishment guy.’ You’re a lawyer, how damning is this video for both for the investigation or any other investigation into the 2020 election?”
“Well, it is completely damning for John Eastman, Jim,” CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig said.
“Let’s step back and remember who John Eastman is,” he continued to say. “He’s this lawyer who Trump discovers when he’s in the process of trying to steal the election. Eastman starts telling Trump these really lunatic ‘legal theories’ — I put ‘legal theories’ in scare quotes here — on which Mike Pence can reject the electoral count.”
“This tape really brings us back to reality, which is Eastman meant what he said in the memo; he was right there with Trump, trying to lead him down this very dangerous path,” he added.
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Eastman is going to need a lawyer. Perhaps Rudy Giuliani is available.
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