John Eastman, the lawyer who convinced Donald Trump he could overturn the 2020 presidential election, recounted to the New York Times the moment in the Oval Office when Vice President Mike Pence tried to derail the former president’s worst instincts.
Said Eastman: “What we asked him to do was delay the proceedings at the request of these state legislatures so they could look into the matter… My sense was he knew an irretrievable break with Trump was about to come, and he was trying to delay that uncomfortable moment for as long as he could.”
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