John Eastman, the conservative lawyer behind President Trump’s calls for Vice President Pence to reject the 2020 presidential electoral vote count, acknowledged that doing so could spark violence.
In a recorded deposition revealed Thursday, former Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann told the committee he told Mr. Eastman that his plan to overturn the election would “cause riots in the streets.”
“I said, ‘You’re completely crazy.’ I said, ‘You’re going to turn around and tell 78-plus million people in this country that your theory … is how you’re going to invalidate their votes because you think the election was stolen.