Lauren Windsor got yet another lying right winger on camera confessing that he is a lying right winger:
EXCLUSIVE: Author of Jan 6 coup memo John Eastman told us Mike Pence didn’t take his solid legal advice & overturn the election bc Pence is “an establishment guy”
(He previously told @NRO the memo was not “viable” and would have been “crazy” to pursue.)
Stay tuned for Part 2.
Originally tweeted by Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) on October 26, 2021.
The January 6th Committee will no doubt want to probe this little discrepancy:
The House select committee investigating the US Capitol insurrection plans to subpoena John Eastman, a conservative lawyer who had worked with then-President Donald Trump’s legal team and tried to convince then-Vice President Mike Pence that he could overturn the election results on January 6, a committee aide told CNN on Tuesday.The aide noted that a subpoena would be avoidable if Eastman voluntarily chose to cooperate with the committee’s inquiry.The Washington Post first reported news of the expected subpoena.
Earlier Tuesday, Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat who serves on the panel, told CNN that the committee needs “to determine to what extent there was an organized effort against Vice President Pence and we believe that, you know, some of the actors’ names have become known, including John Eastman, who laid it out in a memo.”
That should be fun.
Apparently, there are some Trump administration figures who are volunteering to come before the committee and others who are cooperating when asked. Vanity Fair reports:
[F]ormer Trumpworld figures, perhaps seeking to rehabilitate their damaged reputations, have not only mostly complied with Thompson’s committee, but have engaged with the panel voluntarily.
CNN reported Tuesday that at least five former Trump staffers have provided information to the committee investigating January 6, either because they “believe they have information worth sharing” or simply to preempt a potential subpoena. Among those who have come forward: Alyssa Farah, the former Mike Pence spokeswoman who quit as White House communications director in December 2020 because she “saw where this was heading.” “The president and certain advisers around him are directly responsible,” she told Politico the day after the Capitol attack.
In addition to those who have voluntarily spoken with the committee, congressional investigators are reaching out to other former White House staffers to solicit compliance. “I’ve got good reason to believe a number of them are horrified and scandalized by what took place on January 6 and they want to do their legal duty and their civic duty by coming forward to explain exactly what happened,” Democratic Representative Jamie Raskin told CNN on Tuesday. “We’re going to continue to encourage everybody who has relevant information to come and talk.”
That engagement, be it voluntary or compelled, already appears to be yielding damning information. Over the weekend, Rolling Stone reported on eye-popping allegations that have been detailed to the committee, including that several House Republicans were “intimately involved” in planning the January 6 rally and that one, Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona, suggested Trump would offer organizers a “blanket pardon” for any trouble that followed. This never materialized, which perhaps explains the feelings of betrayal some rioters have expressed, particularly in the face of major legal consequences. “January 6th was a disgrace to our nation that left a scar Trump is ultimately responsible for,” one Capitol attack defendant, Thomas Sibick, wrote in a letter to Judge Amy Berman Jackson recently requesting release from jail, claiming he was “consumed by the mob mentality.” He added, “I have vowed to never attend another political protest in my life, that was my first and last!”
…Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s White House has once again refused to allow Trump to claim executive privilege over records related to January 6, allowing the committee access to more investigative materials. As Axios suggested Wednesday, Bannon’s failure to cooperate may be an aberration for a committee that actually seems to be chugging along with impressive momentum.
What will ultimately come of it? It’s still too early to say. Even the hamstrung Trump-era investigations produced their share of damning revelations—none of which led to actual accountability in a Washington divided along partisan lines. Those divisions, on Capitol Hill and beyond, haven’t budged in the last nine months and could still shield Trump and his cronies from consequences. But with a more muscular congressional investigation like the January 6 committee seems to be, there is perhaps reason for Republicans implicated in the findings to be nervous, as suggested by the careful statements by GOP lawmakers named in the Rolling Stone report. “I was really busy,” Rep. Mo Brooks, who wore body armor to the speech he gave ahead of the riot, told the Montgomery Advertiser, explaining why he couldn’t possibly have been part of the planning. “I was working on speeches for the House floor debates,” he continued, though he added to CNN that while he had “no involvement” in the insurrection plot, his team may have. “I don’t know if my staff did,” he said. “But if they did, I’d be proud of them.”
Brooks is a real snake, isn’t he? But he’s between a rock and a hard place. He’s running for the US Senate and he cannot deviate even an inch from Donald Trump if he wants to win the nomination.