WASHINGTON — A former aide to then-Vice President Mike Pence told congressional investigators in a deposition shown Thursday that conservative lawyer John Eastman admitted to President Donald Trump days before the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that a plot to overturn the 2020 election was illegal.
Greg Jacob, Pence's former counsel, told investigators he believed Eastman said in front of Trump on Jan. 4, 2021, that his plan for Pence to reject Congress' certification of the 2020 election ran afoul of the Electoral Count Act of 1887.
"What the president wanted the vice president to do was not just wrong," Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., vice chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, said in her opening statement. "It was illegal and unconstitutional."
