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June 15, 2022

"Are You Out of Your F-ing Mind": White House Lawyer's Message to John Eastman on Jan. 7, 2021
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The January 6 committee was scheduled to hold its third public hearing
Wednesday morning, but it was postponed. The committee has teased
Thursday's hearing by releasing a short video of former White House
lawyer Eric Herschmann recalling a conversation he had on January 7 with
John Eastman, the conservative lawyer who helped craft Trump's legal
effort to overturn the 2020 election. Herschmann told the January 6
committee that Eastman called him a day after the deadly insurrection to
discuss more ways to overturn the election. Herschmann described how the
call ended.

Eric Herschmann: "I said to him, 'Are you out of your F-ing mind?'
Right? I said, 'I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth
from now on: "orderly transition." … Now I'm going to give you the best
free legal advice you're ever getting in your life: Get a great F-ing
criminal defense lawyer. You're going to need it.' And then I hung up on
him."



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