Former Trump attorney John Eastman said all efforts to challenge the 2020 election on January 6 were upended when the Capitol was breached.
“It was terrible, and anybody who thinks that we had any hand or I had any hand in coordinating it doesn’t know how much it was contrary to what we were trying to do, which is get the illegality and fraud allegations aired in a public way,” Eastman told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “That went out the window the second that Capitol was breached. It was as much against our interest as anybody’s for that thing to have happened.”
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“The peaceful rally down at the Ellipse, with somewhere between a quarter million and a half million people, another rally that was properly permitted to occur on the northeast corner of the Capitol,” Eastman continued. “All of that peaceful right of the American people to petition their government for redress of grievances, to speak out against what they saw was wrong with the election — all of that went out the window when those doors of the Capitol were breached.”
Eastman is one of 19 defendants, including former President Donald Trump, indicted in Georgia on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Eastman has continued to defend his conduct and challenge prosecutors to find any wrongdoing on his part.
In part two of the interview with Ingraham that aired Wednesday night, Eastman also denied encouraging then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject electors’ certifications of the vote.
“What I recommended, and I have said this repeatedly, is that he exceed to request for more than 100 state legislators in those swing states to give them a week to try to sort out the impact of what everybody acknowledged was illegality in the conduct of the election,” Eastman said.
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Eastman said it was his thought that a week would have given time for legal proceedings to consider whether the “uncertainty” of the election results was great enough to suggest a failed election.
The attorney has promised that he and his legal team will “vigorously contest every count of the indictment in which I am named, and also every count in which others are named, for which my knowledge of the relevant facts, law, and constitutional provisions may prove helpful,” adding in a statement last week that he was “confident that when the law is faithfully applied in this proceeding, all of my co-defendants and I will be fully vindicated.”
