At the heart of former President Donald Trump's brain trust to hatch plans to overturn the 2020 election in the courtroom was conservative attorney John Eastman, who was criminally referred by the Jan. 6 committee on Monday.
Shortly after Trump's 2020 defeat became apparent, Eastman penned a two-page memo outlining a bold strategy for Vice President Mike Pence to decertify the election results, which cascaded a series of events that ended with the Capitol riot on Jan. 6 — the day Congress convened to certify the election results.The Jan.
— The Recount December 19, 2022 Eastman had piqued Trump's interest around the middle of 2019 when he was venting against the Russia investigation to Fox News's Mark Levin and was summoned into the Oval Office about two months later, the New York Times reported.After Trump lost the 2020 election, he became captivated by Eastman's legal musings.
“The evidence shows that Eastman knew in advance of the 2020 election that Vice President Pence could not refuse to count electoral votes on January 6th,” the preview explained. "We understand the gravity of each and every referral we are making today," Raskin added,"just as we understand the magnitude of the crime against democracy we describe in our report."
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