'Hard to Believe': Jan. 6 Committee Presents Email from John Eastman Blaming Riot on Mike Pence

[Ohio Joe]

John Eastman, the attorney who pushed a half-baked legal theory stating that Vice President Mike Pence could have denied certification of Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 election, blamed Pence for the Capitol riot.

The Jan. 6 committee continued its public hearings on the riot on Thursday, presenting evidence of the extent of Eastman’s efforts to delay or even thwart congressional certification of Biden as the winner of the presidential election. Eastman told then-President Donald Trump that as the presiding officer of the certification, Pence could deny certification of results from states Trump lost.

Documents released by the committee this week contained correspondence between Eastman and Greg Jacob, the top White House lawyer for Pence. Jacob testified before the committee on Thursday.

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Mr. Jacob, immediately before you and the vice president were evacuated to a secure location within the Capitol, you hit send on an email to John Eastman explaining why his legal theory about the vice president’s role was wrong. You ended your email by stating that, quote, “Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.”

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And Dr. Eastman replied – and this is hard to believe – that his reply back to you was, “The ‘siege’ is because YOU and your boss” – presumably referring to the vice president of the United States – “did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so the American people can see for themselves what happened.”

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Just when you think it can't get any more loony tunes

[NQAS]

1. Brain tumors

You know, I’m beginning to think that all this madness is due to brain tumors and lesions that have resulted in these peoples divorce from reality. It is astounding that do Nancy vile, evil, deranged liars and grifters came together at this point in history.

[mopinko]

5. it'll be a great day when neurology catches up w juris prudence.

in a perfect world a person accused of a serious crime, esp a violent one, has to have his brain examined.
i think we'd find a lot of people w treatable conditions that could be treated rather than jailed.

there's a lot of reasons why people cant control their actions, and the accepted axis 1 dx's are only a few.

i esp want to see tfg's med records from his rush trip to reed.

[KS Toronado]

2. Just one of many more revelations to come

[gratuitous]

3. If Poland had just let Germany annex it

All that World War II unpleasantness would have been avoided. We call that "Eastman Logic."

[Novara]

4. drip ... drip ... drip ...

Keep it coming!

[underpants]

6. So Eastman signed up for this knowing full well that Trump doesn't pay

Trump sure as hell isn’t going to pay him from the $250k he’s pocketed off this.

What was this, for THE CAUSE?