Leaked Doc Reveals Trump Lawyer Emailed to Say Capitol Attack Was Pence’s Fault — WHILE Pence Hid From ‘Hang Pence’ Mob

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A leaked document adds insult to injury by revealing that Trump lawyer John Eastman emailed then-Vice President Mike Pence’s team to blame Pence for the Capitol insurrection — while Pence and his team hid from the rioters.

The Washington Post obtained a draft of an op-ed that Pence’s then-Chief Counsel Greg Jacob wrote — but never published — in which he details a jaw-dropping email that Eastman sent while the attack was going on — and which Eastman confirmed he did write:

As Vice President Mike Pence hid from a marauding mob during the Jan. 6 invasion of the Capitol, an attorney for President Donald Trump emailed a top Pence aide to say that Pence had caused the violence by refusing to block certification of Trump’s election loss.

The attorney, John C. Eastman, also continued to press for Pence to act even after Trump’s supporters had trampled through the Capitol — an attack the Pence aide, Greg Jacob, had described as a “siege” in their email exchange.

“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 Jacob, referring to Trump’s claims of voter fraud.

Eastman sent the email as Pence, who had been presiding in the Senate, was under guard with Jacob and other advisers in a secure area. Rioters were tearing through the Capitol complex, some of them calling for Pence to be executed.

In fact, rioters not only chanted “Hang Mike Pence!”, they infamously constructed gallows outside the U.S. Capitol.

Eastman is also the author of a memo that detailed the plot to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in which President Joe Biden — then the former vice president — defeated then-President Trump.