attorney general testifies about trumps subvert

To recap: the DOJ investigation has moved one step closer to Trump, and potentially just one step away from directly implicating the former president via Stone.Īs if that wasn’t bad enough for the former president, on Thursday, his son Donald Trump Jr’s fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle, who was in close contact with the president on Jan. “Plaintiff knew what he was proposing would violate the law, but he nonetheless urged the Vice President to take those actions,” the committee wrote. Critically, though, Eastman acknowledged in this email to Pence that he knew what he was asking for was a violation of the law. It would have also given then-President Trump time to do who knows what to thwart the inauguration (he reportedly considered a draft executive order seizing voting machines and several of his close confidants had proposed he declare martial law during that time). If the vote count had been postponed, Pence and Congress would have been delayed in certifying that Joe Biden had won the election. “I implore you to consider one more relatively minor violation” of the law “and adjourn for 10 days,” Eastman pleaded. The filing also revealed for the first time that Eastman wrote to Vice President Mike Pence’s attorney after the Capitol insurrection to make one final plea for Pence to delay the counting of the electoral votes. As the committee also noted, Eastman exercised his Fifth Amendment against self-incriminating testimony 146 separate times during his December testimony. Essentially, the committee said it believes Eastman and Trump took part in a federal crime that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $500,000 fine.

Attorney general testifies about trumps subvert