John Eastman, the conservative law professor who wrote a legal blueprint for Trump’s authoritarian power grab, emailed the Pence team while they were still being protected in a secure location after rioters breached the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
As a pro-Trump mob chanted “Hang Mike Pence!” during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, one of Trump’s lawyers, John Eastman, sent an email to the vice-president’s top lawyer blaming him and Pence for the riot. “The ‘siege’ is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so that the American people can see for themselves what happened,” Eastman wrote in an email to Greg Jacob, Pence’s lawyer, according to the Washington Post.
