John Eastman, the lawyer advising former President Trump on a plan to overturn the 2020 election, sought a pardon in the days after last year’s attack on the Capitol, the House Jan. 6 committee revealed on Thursday.
“I’ve decided I should be on the pardon list, if that is still in the works,” Eastman said in an email to Rudy Giuliani that was quoted during the select committee’s third public hearing on Thursday.
Trump’s legal adviser received much of the panel’s spotlight during the hearing, which included testimony from White House officials and aides to former Vice President Mike Pence.
Eastman sought to provide the legal justification for pressuring Pence into obstructing Congress’s certification of the 2020 results despite privately acknowledging that such a plan would be rejected by the courts.
Eric Herschmann, a Trump White House lawyer, said in recorded testimony shown Thursday that Eastman called him the day after the Capitol attack to talk about some sort of legal issue related to an election challenge in Georgia.
Herschmann said he told Eastman, “I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on: orderly transition.”
“Now I’m going to give you the best free legal advice you’re ever getting in your life: Get a great f’ing criminal defense lawyer. You’re going to need it.”
According to the select committee, Eastman sent the pardon request to Giuliani just days later.
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