Legal advisers told Trump that pressuring Pence to overthrow election was illegal | FarrahTomazin
: Donald Trump put his own vice president’s life at risk by embracing an elaborate plot to overturn the 2020 election, despite knowing the plan was unlawful, a Congressional hearing on the US Capitol attack has been told.
This incited the crowd even further, the committee found, with one rioter telling protesters: “If he’s caved, we’re gonna drag m-----f-----s through the streets! You f------ politicians are gonna get f------ dragged through the streets!”It was Pence’s role, as vice president, to oversee the certification of the electoral college votes.
‘I’m going to give you the best free legal advice you’re ever getting in your life: Get a great f------ criminal defence lawyer.’Trump and Eastman nonetheless hoped their plan would buy some time for Republican-controlled legislatures to install new pro-Trump electors who could then reverse Biden’s electoral college victory in key battleground states.
Jacob, however, rejected this, and had advised Pence the US Electoral Count Act — which governs every transition of power after elections — prohibited him from taking unilateral action and could have required him to break four different provisions of the law. “I’m going to give you the best free legal advice you’re ever getting in your life: Get a great f------ criminal defence lawyer,” Herschmann said he told Eastman. “You’re going to need it.”
It is particularly significant because it threads together the committee’s main contention: that Trump both incited the Capitol attack and was central to a sweeping and methodical conspiracy to overthrow a duly elected government, despite knowing that conspiracy was unlawful.
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