Eastman asked Giuliani for a pardon via email

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

John Eastman, the Trump attorney who outlined scenarios for denying Joe Biden the presidency, asked for a presidential pardon via email, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) revealed Thursday.

Eastman, in an email to Trump’s then-attorney Rudy Giuliani, “requested that he be included on a list of potential recipients of a presidential pardon,” Aguilar said.

Aguilar then read from Eastman’s email, in which he said: “I’ve decided that I should be on the pardon list, if that is still in the works.”Trump issued 143 pardons and commutations on his last night as president. Eastman did not receive a pardon. The committee then shared clips from Eastman’s deposition before investigators, in which he invokes his Fifth Amendment right to not answer “a hundred times,” Aguilar said.

In the video, Eastman refuses to answer investigators’ questions on whether Trump’s legal team asked him to prepare a memo regarding Pence’s role in the counting of electoral votes, and on whether he advised Trump that Pence could reject the certification of votes.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/06/16/jan-6-committee-hearings-live-june-16/#link-A5CVNEEQZRH5JA3757JEIOJHDQ

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Trump 'coup memo' author asked for pardon and lobbied Pence to overturn election after the riot

The lawyer pushing the theory that then-Vice President Mike Pence had the power to singlehandedly overturn the election on January 6 asked for a presidential pardon from Donald Trump and continued to urge Mr Pence to reject the election results after the attack on the Capitol, according to testimony to the House Select Committee investigating the riot.

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/john-eastman-mike-pence-pardon-b2102983.html

[madaboutharry]

1. Ask any lawyer: The E in email stands for evidence!

Very careless and very dumb.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. "Ask any lawyer: The E in email stands for evidence!"

You had like a thousand insurrectionists literally recording themselves with cell phones and Go-Pros and video cameras, literally breaking the law.

That is how unhinged these people are.

[Martin68]

3. I love these rats on a sinking ship leaving an email trail of guilt.

[Midnight Writer]

4. I think the proper protocol for asking for a Trump Pardon(c) includes a wire transfer of funds.

[smb]

10. Yep

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Disbar Giuliani and Eastman

[Bev54]

6. I wonder if someone told Trump he could not pardon these yahoos because

it may initiate an investigation of why, which could out the entire plan. Perhaps they thought the republicans would be able to impede or stop any investigation and the truth would never be revealed.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. I think it was more that he wanted to cherry-pick who he would pardon

considering the others "dime-a-dozen disposable people".

[Lonestarblue]

8. Plus, they all failed to overturn the election and let him stay in power.

His revenge was no pardons.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Very true

although Bannon and Stone were both all wrapped up in that failure too but managed, like Flynn, to "get on the list" - with the irony of Flynn's brother being "on the inside".

[thesquanderer]

11. Maybe Bannon and Stone found a way to funnel money to him...

...and Eastman didn't get the pardon because he couldn't pony up the funds.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Now THAT is probably the case!

Always follow the $$$$$!!