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WASHINGTON, D.C., January 14, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — President Trump’s constitutional lawyer John Eastman said that Vice President Mike Pence misrepresented what he was asked to do while presiding over the certification of the Electoral College votes.
“I think he’s exaggerating what the request was,” said Eastman in a late interview on January 6, according to a WND report.
The constitutional scholar and former Supreme Court clerk said Pence was not asked to unilaterally decide the results of the election. “That’s not what he was being asked; that’s not what we asked him this morning, and that’s not what the president asked him this morning,” said Eastman.
The lawyer referenced how Pence began his three-page letter issued just prior to the start of the joint session of Congress on January 6, explicitly acknowledging that there were “numerous instances of officials setting aside state election law.”
“That means we have several slates of electors that were illegally given,” Eastman explained.
“And what [Pence] had been asked to do is recognize that they had been illegally given and send it back to the
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