Undercover Video: Trump Lawyer John Eastman Admits His Jan. 6 Memo Really Was the Plan, Throws...

Attorney John Eastman made a series of startling admissions in a video captured by an undercover reporter at a conservative gala this past weekend, including contradicting his prior claims denouncing his Jan. 6 memo, blaming former Vice President Mike Pence for not overturning the 2020 election because he was an “establishment guy,” and accusing the FBI of using antifa “plants” to instigate the Jan. 6 riot.

Eastman had penned a memo that urged Pence to block the certification of the Electoral College votes declaring Joe Biden the winner over former President Donald Trump, by refusing to accept the electors from several states that had voted for Biden, claiming they were in dispute. The plan was for Pence to then declare Trump the winner of the majority of the remaining Electoral College votes, or toss the decision to the then-Republican dominated House of Representatives.

Legal scholars widely panned the memo as a wildly incorrect interpretation of the Constitution, in no small part because the Vice President’s role in certifying the Electoral College votes is merely ceremonial. In a recent interview with National Review, Eastman seemed to concur, attempting to distance himself from the memo and calling its tactics “crazy” and not “viable.”