Some excerpts from https://time.com/6188491/john-eastman-jan-6-testimony-trump/
At one point on Thursday, the committee aired clips from a taped deposition of Eastman repeatedly responding to a committee lawyer’s questions by pleading his Fifth Amendment right against not incriminating himself. Overall, Aguilar said, Eastman pleaded the fifth “a hundred times.”
One Pence aide shared a conversation with Eastman in which he acknowledged that the move wouldn’t be upheld in the courts, including the Supreme Court. “I said, ‘John, if the Vice President did what you were asking him to do, we would lose nine to nothing in the Supreme Court, wouldn’t we?” Jacob recalled. “He initially said maybe we’d only lose seven to two, but ultimately acknowledged that, no, we would lose nine to nothing” Jacob said.
In another bombshell from the hearing, the committee showed a Jan. 11, 2021, email from Eastman requesting a pardon from Trump for his role in the attempts to stop the transfer of power to Biden.
“I’ve decided that I should be on the pardon list, if that is still in the works,” Eastman wrote to Trump’s personal attorney and confidant Rudy Guiliani, according to an email obtained by the Jan. 6 committee. Aguilar said Eastman did not get one. Trump publicly announced 143 pardons on the last night of his presidency. Eastman was not among them.
