During Jan. 6 riot, Trump attorney told Pence team the vice president's inaction caused attack

[LetMyPeopleVote]

While they were huddled in a safe location, Eastman called and told Pence's attorney that Pence was solely responsible for the riot due to Pence's failure to give the election to TFG. This is so very sick

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As Vice President Mike Pence hid from a marauding mob during the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol, an attorney for President Donald Trump emailed a top Pence aide to say that Pence had caused the violence by refusing to block certification of Trump’s election loss.

The attorney, John C. Eastman, also continued to press for Pence to act even after Trump’s supporters had trampled through the Capitol — an attack the Pence aide, Greg Jacob, had described as a “siege” in their email exchange.

“The ‘siege’ is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so that the American people can see for themselves what happened,” Eastman wrote to Jacob, referring to Trump’s claims of voter fraud.

Eastman sent the email as Pence, who had been presiding in the Senate, was under guard with Jacob and other advisers in a secure area. Rioters were tearing through the Capitol complex, some of them calling for Pence to be executed.....

As Vice President Mike Pence hid from a marauding mob during the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol, an attorney for President Donald Trump emailed a top Pence aide to say that Pence had caused the violence by refusing to block certification of Trump’s election loss.

The attorney, John C. Eastman, also continued to press for Pence to act even after Trump’s supporters had trampled through the Capitol — an attack the Pence aide, Greg Jacob, had described as a “siege” in their email exchange.

“The ‘siege’ is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so that the American people can see for themselves what happened,” Eastman wrote to Jacob, referring to Trump’s claims of voter fraud.

Eastman sent the email as Pence, who had been presiding in the Senate, was under guard with Jacob and other advisers in a secure area. Rioters were tearing through the Capitol complex, some of them calling for Pence to be executed.

Eastman needs to be disbarred and prosecuted for insurrection

[C_U_L8R]

1. Eastman's flop sweat is showing.

[dchill]

2. Let him flop. He's earned it.

[Nevilledog]

3. He's a sociopath

[Irish_Dem]

4. If the mob had been successful in harming Pence, could Trump have appointed a new VP

who would do his bidding and overturn the election?

[Midnight Writer]

5. That would explain why Pence refused to get into a car with the Secret Service at the Capitol.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Exactly my thoughts as well. Pence knew he was a marked man.

If the VP is killed or captured, Trump could appoint a new VP who would do his bidding.

[dalton99a]

7. POS belongs in prison

[tanyev]

8. "If you'd just acquiesced to our demands, nobody would have gotten hurt!"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. Lying sack of shit

But consider he he works for.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

10. Simply despicable from John Eastman

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[Cha]

11. "Save America".. we Did SAVE AMERICA..

from you MF Treasonous Assholes.

[Cha]

12. They have to blame their inability to

throw over the Government on somebody.. it might as well be Pence & his fly.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. The Most Damning Jan 6th Revelation Yet

This exchange clearly established that violence was contemplated and was part of the plan to overthrow our government

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The Post has emails – presumably emerging out of the committee investigation – of what happened during the insurrection. As the insurrectionists were storming the Capitol and Pence was holed up in a secure location as they hunted for him and members of Congress, Eastman emailed Pence and his top aide saying that the insurrection was Pence’s fault for not going through with the coup plot. With the President’s supporters ransacking the Capitol Eastman demanded Pence shift course and do the right thing.

These exchanges capture something we suspect and know in some way. But here we’re getting the details, the documentary evidence. Eastman didn’t recoil when the President’s rally escalated to violence. He clearly saw the inside coup plot and the insurrectionists on the street as part of the same effort. This isn’t surprising to most of us. The insurrectionists were laying siege to Pence in the Capitol because Pence wasn’t going along with the plan. And the answer was to go along with the plan. Eastman recognized the insurrection as the paramilitary wing of the coup plot he was part of and as the Capitol was under siege used it as a cudgel to force Pence’s hand.

Again, this won’t come to a shock to many of us. But here we’re getting the receipts. At least the first of them. To date the actions of Eastman, the President, his various coconspirators – during the hours of the assault on the Capitol – have largely been a black box even as we’ve learned more and more granular detail of the ransacking of the Capitol itself. We’ve had brief glimpses in reported accounts. There was the notorious phone call between Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Trump in which McCarthy demanded Trump call off his insurrectionists. Trump notoriously responded, “Well, Kevin, I guess these people are more upset about the election than you are.”

In real time, Trump’s message was the same as Eastman’s. You brought it on yourself and they’re my guys. The way to lift the siege is to do the right thing and support the coup. They both recognized the insurrectionists as their foot soldiers and expressed as much in real time to the members of Congress under siege. And of course they did since they were their foot soldiers.

[malaise]

14. These people belong in prison

Lock them up!