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struggle4progress

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Thu Aug 31, 2023, 04:15 PM Aug 2023

Eastman clarifies: I wanted Pence to break the law [View all]

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

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