White House lawyers pressured to overturn election after insurrection
Source: Washington Post
Trump attorney John Eastman continued to pressure White House counsel to work to overturn the 2020 presidential election after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, White House lawyers told Jan. 6 committee investigators.
“I said to him, ‘Are you out of your effin’ mind?’ I said I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on: orderly transition,” White House attorney Eric Herschmann told Eastman during a phone call a day after the insurrection.
Herschmann had defended Trump in the Senate during his first impeachment trial and then joined the White House as a senior adviser.
“Today’s hearing, Mr. Chairman, was very narrowly focused,” said Rep. Liz Cheney, noting that the hearings for the rest of the week will go further in depth on Trump’s direct efforts to pressure key election administrators into subverting the 2020 election.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/13/jan-6-committee-hearings-live/
This was evidence the Senate needed to hear at the second impeachment trial.
