Trump lawyer told Mike Pence's team they were responsible for Jan. 6 even as mob breached Capitol
By Brett Bachman
Even as a mob of Trump supporters were storming the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, the team of inner-circle White House aides and lawyers that had spent months scheming to overturn the 2020 election were hard at work pressuring then-Vice President Mike Pence to aid their efforts — with one of them even going so far as to email Pence's team to blame them for the riot itself.
The attorney who sent the email, John Eastman, has come under fire in recent weeks for authoring a document many are referring to as "the coup memo": a list of six steps that Pence could have taken to challenge President Biden's victory while presiding over the largely ceremonial step of Congress certifying the 2020 election.
"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 to Greg Jacob, a Pence aide, according to a new report in The Washington Post.
The note came as both Pence and Jacob were hunkered down in a "secure area" under armed guard due to the still-raging insurrection — which featured many of the pro-Trump protesters calling for Pence's execution.
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