John Eastman speaks in Boulder, Colorado, April 2021 (Andy Cross / MediaNews Group / The Denver Post / Getty Images)
The House Election Commission plans to use future hearings to investigate how former President Donald Trump used a channel, lawyer John Eastman, in his plans to undermine the certification of the January 6, 2021 election.
The commission received hundreds of Eastman emails on the subject yesterday, although they have not yet been made public.
In response to the House of Representatives committee, Eastman invoked his right to the Fifth Amendment to protect him from self-incrimination, so he did not testify.
Michael Lutig, a former federal judge who advised former Vice President Mike Pence not to reject the election, told the Eastman Commission.
Lutig said Eastman was “wrong at every turn,” according to the GOP. Representative Liz Cheney, Vice-Chair of the Committee since 6 January.
Cheney also cited a poignant email from another lawyer close to Pence, his former chief counsel Greg Jacob. “Thanks to your nonsense, we are under siege,” Jacob wrote to Eastman during the uprising.
Cheney then said the committee had learned new details “about Trump’s campaign and the efforts of other Trump aides to instruct Republicans in many states to deliberately create fake ballots and pass them on to Congress and the National Archives, falsely certifying that Trump has won by saying he has actually lost.
On Wednesday, the House committee was still receiving some of Eastman’s emails. Several additional emails I received yesterday focused heavily on the voter plan and attracting state lawmakers to it, according to court proceedings.
Some of these emails documented the agenda of the meetings where Eastman presented the so-called “ground game” in the United States. Others “do not offer legal advice, but aim to persuade lawmakers to take political action,” the judge wrote.
The voter scheme is currently being investigated in two criminal investigations – in Georgia and by federal authorities.
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