Laura Ingraham let plenty of false claims from John Eastman fly in her two-part interview with him — except one.
Advertisement, Eastman even sent an email on the evening of Jan. 6 arguing that, because the debate over counting electors from Arizona had extended beyond the two hours allowed under the Electoral Count Act, Vice President Mike Pence should similarly stretch the bounds of that law to introduce a pause in the finalization of the count. The debate extended beyond two hours because it was interrupted by the riot.
“Some people had urged that Vice President Pence simply had power to reject electors whose certification was still pending,” Eastman said later in the Fox News interview, prompting Ingraham to say that she didn’t agree with that argument. “I don’t either,” Eastman replied, “and I explicitly told Vice President Pence in the Oval Office on January 4th that, even though it was an open issue under the circumstances we had, I thought it was the weaker argument and it would be foolish to exercise such power even if you had it.”So let’s rewind a bit and go back to Mike Lee. In their book “Peril,” reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa describe“There’s a memo about to be developed,” Eastman told Lee.
“Lee received a two-page memo from the White House on Saturday, January 2, authored by legal scholar John Eastman,” Woodward and Costa write later. The memo “turned the standard counting process on its head. Lee was surprised it came from Eastman, a law school professor who had clerked for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.”. In step three of six, it posits that Pence could simply reject electors from states where competing slates of electors had been submitted.
What we learned from the Eastman interview, then, wasn’t a lot about Eastman. Instead, it was that Fox News, even now, will allow dishonest claims to be presented to its audience without pushback — unless similar claims have already resulted in nine-figure legal settlements.
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