The former Pence lawyer warned Trump Camp against the plan to cancel the vote

• Mike Pence’s former lawyer has said he disagrees with the Trump camp’s plan to cancel the 2020 election.
• Greg Jacob said he warned that the election would be “decided on the street” if the plan succeeds.
• That’s because people have already been “blamed” for the election, Jacob said.

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Former Vice President’s lawyer Mike Pence said he strongly disagreed with conservative lawyer John Eastman about Trump’s camp’s plan to overturn the 2020 election, and warned Eastman that it could lead to street violence.

Testifying Thursday before the Jan. 6 commission investigating the Capitol riot, Greg Jacob said he spoke with Eastman on Jan. 5, 2021. During their conversation, Jacob said he had expressed his “loud disagreement” with Pence’s plan to repeal electoral vote on behalf of former President Donald Trump and send votes back to their respective states.

“Among other things, if the courts did not intervene to allow this, there was no one else to allow it,” Jacob said. He also expressed concern that Pence’s act of returning the vote back to the United States would be seen as an abuse of power, with the Trump-Pence camp declaring itself the winner of the 2020 election.

Jacob also said he was aware that the situation would be an “unprecedented” constitutional problem and would lead to a “confrontation” in the vote count, which would be difficult to resolve.

“And as I told him, this issue may need to be resolved on the street, because if we can’t solve it politically, we’ve already seen how busy people are with this election,” Jacob said of his conversation with Eastman. “So, it would be a catastrophic situation to be in.”

The third of six public hearings held by the Jan. 6 commission investigating the Capitol riots on Thursday revealed how far Trump’s camp had come in trying to persuade Pence to cancel the election. Witnesses and MPs outlined how Pence could cause “the first constitutional crisis since the founding of the republic” if he succumbed to pressure and continued to reject the vote.

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