He asserted attorney-client privilege when asked to discuss evidence that Trump's allies considered the Iowa senator playing a role to keep Trump in power.
John Eastman, testifying at his own disbarment trial, sidestepped a question Wednesday about whether he and others in Donald Trump’s orbit discussed the possibility that Sen. Chuck Grassley — rather than Mike Pence — would preside over the Jan. 6, 2021, session of Congress.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, seen here in September 2023, was the subject of significant intrigue in the weeks leading up to Jan. 6, 2021. | AP Photo/Alex Brandon And Carling probed his relationship with attorney Kenneth Chesebro, another Trump codefendant who was an architect of the last-ditch legal strategy Trump deployed to attempt to remain in power. Chesebrothat helped drive Trump’s efforts to assemble false slates of pro-Trump presidential electors in seven states won by Joe Biden, and said it was crucial that those “contingent” electors gather and vote on Dec. 14, 2020, on the same day that Biden’s state-certified electors cast their own ballots.
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