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Trump Lawyer Knew Pence Was Powerless to Overturn Election
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June 16, 2022
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1:44Now PlayingTop White House lawyers and Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows didn’t think the plan for Pence to block election certification was legal and even the lawyer behind the strategy thought it would lose in the Supreme Court, White House aides testified.
Meadows told Short, Pence’s chief of staff, that he didn’t agree with the legal strategy, Short said in a video deposition the panel showed.
White House Counsel Pat Cipollone described it as “nutty,” Trump adviser Jason Miller said. And Trump senior adviser Eric Herschmann called it “completely crazy.”
Eastman, the Trump lawyer pressing the strategy acknowledged that the Trump team “would lose 9 to nothing” if the Supreme Court ruled on the strategy, Jacob told the committee.
Herschmann said he told Eastman the country would have “riots in the streets” if the vice president decided to overturn a presidential election. Eastman retorted that there had been violence in the history of the country before, Herschmann said.
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