A day after the Capitol riot, a White House attorney said he warned a Trump-allied lawyer that he should get a criminal defense attorney over his efforts to fight the Georgia election results, according to a video clip released Tuesday by the Jan. 6 committee.
Eric Herschmann, who at the time worked for the White House, said John Eastman contacted him and started asking about the election results in Georgia, one of the states narrowly won by President Joe Biden that former President Donald Trump sought to overturn.
“He started to ask me about something dealing with Georgia, preserving something, potentially for appeal,” Herschmann says in video of his testimony to the Jan. 6 committee. “And 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.’”
Herschmann said he asked Eastman to repeat the two words, later adding: “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 gonna need it.”
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