Eastman clarifies: I wanted Pence to break the law

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EVAN HURST
AUG 31, 2023

... Ingraham asked Eastman to clarify: “On January 6, what did you want to happen?”

After explaining some crimes he didn’t tell Mike Pence to commit — just outright rejecting slates of electors — he said he simply wanted Pence to “accede to requests from more than 100 state legislators in the swing states to give them a week to try to sort out the impact of what everybody acknowledged was illegality in the election!”

At this point Ingraham was ... “I don’t think everyone acknowledged it.” And Eastman didn’t seem to like when she suggested it’s entirely unclear that any irregularities anybody found would have changed the result of the election.

To be clear, what he just confessed to is a crime. And it’s a crime we knew about, in which he asked Mike Pence’s lawyer the night of January 6 for one more eeny weeny crime — “one more relatively minor violation” — and adjourn the proceedings so they could all go gin up find the frauds. Just that little crime ...

https://www.wonkette.com/p/john-eastman-clarifies-i-wanted-mike

[Ocelot II]

1. Just one more wafer thin mint...

[MrWowWow]

2. He would be a great "Mr. Creosote"

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3. Eastman's Fox interview a bad call

Josephine Harvey
Thu, August 31, 2023 at 7:38 AM EDT·4 min read

... Eastman is accused of designing a scheme ... to “either reject electoral votes from certain states or delay the joint session of Congress on January 6” ...

Eastman acknowledged both options violated the law, according to the indictment ...

“What I recommended, and I’ve said this repeatedly, is that he accede to request from more than 100 state legislators in their swing states to give them a week to try and sort out the impact of what everybody acknowledged was illegality in the conduct of the election,” he said ...

... Pence has said Trump and his “crackpot lawyers” asked him to “literally reject votes” ...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/just-confessed-law-experts-john-113805608.html

[Baitball Blogger]

4. How this man made it to his ripe old age as a lawyer, says everything you need to know

about the degradation of the legal field.

translation: They should have weeded him out earlier, before he was allowed to provide legal counsel to the idiots that followed his plan.

[brewens]

7. As if the 100 state legislators arrived at the conclusion there was fraud independently.

They were recruited and organized.

[BComplex]

5. They wanted to throw it to the House: one vote per state would have put trump over the top

THAT is what Eastman was working for.

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6. Him, Giuliani, Navarro...all have admitted to crimes. Is it in the water...

maybe the (R) behind their names...whatever it is, they're going to jail.

Eastman, a lawyer, knows the Constituion prescribes what the VP's duties are and the steps to be followed on the day the EC votes are validated.

Nowhere is a delay/recess called for, nor a sending of EC votes back to the states, or fake elector slates to the National Archives just in case, or a week's delay so state legislatures can vote on who is to be president, knowing republicans hold way more statehouses.

Such BS, the real/actual EC votes were already certified by the states. Pence's role was just ceremonial and Eastman knows it.

[Chainfire]

8. None of those people can possibly be criminals because the law does not apply to them.

They are the legal and political wings of the Sovereign Citizens. Laws are just to keep the little people out of their clubs.

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10. Eastman shoots self in foot

BY EWAN PALMER ON 8/31/23 AT 6:57 AM EDT

... When asked by Ingraham what his "constitutional" plan was on January 6, 2021, Eastman replied .... "What I recommended, and I've said this repeatedly, is that he accede to requests from more than 100 state legislators in the swing states, to give them a week to try and sort out the impact of what everybody acknowledged was illegality in the conduct of the election" ....

... Bradley P. Moss, a lawyer who specializes in national security, wrote: "He literally just confessed to the crime."

Democratic strategist Max Burns wrote: "John Eastman, on trial for trying to impede the certification of presidential electors, admits on Fox that he explicitly wanted to impede the certification of presidential electors."

Hugo Lowell, a politics reporter for The Guardian, said: "Fmr Trump lawyer John Eastman says on Fox News that what he wanted on Jan. 6 was for VP Pence to delay certification from happening for a week. Not news but in his own words it sounds like he wanted to impede the certification" ...

https://www.newsweek.com/john-eastman-fox-news-laura-ingraham-election-trump-1823628