WASHINGTON — The pressure on Vice President Mike Pence to unilaterally overturn the 2020 presidential election and the danger he was in during the riot itself will be the focus of Thursday’s hearing on the House investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
The committee will lay out the last-ditch plan pushed by lawyer John Eastman and former President Donald Trump to persuade Pence to reject the votes of certain states or send results to state legislatures to determine whether fraud occurred.
“When every lawsuit was lost, they started to gravitate to this effort that specifically put the vice president literally in the crosshairs. And so we’re going to talk about the theory that led to that pressure, but also the pressure campaign that (Pence) was under specifically, the last 72 hours leading up to January 6,” Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., told the Los Angeles Times before the hearing.
