Former Trump campaign attorney John Eastman complained on Wednesday that he has been criticized for a plot to name then-President Donald Trump as the "true winner" of the 2020 presidential election.
Eastman, now facing a California State Bar trial, was a key player in a plan to send an alternate slate of electors to Congress. He also told Trump supporters on Jan. 6 that then-Vice President Mike Pence could reject the certified slate of electors and accept pro-Trump electors instead.
During a Wednesday appearance on the War Room podcast, Eastman pushed back on his critics.
"I want to point out they all say, well, we were using this to overturn the election and undermine the will of the people," he told host Steve Bannon. "No, we we weren't, as you know well, we were trying to understand who the true winner was in order to bolster or enhance the will of the people, [and determine] if there were illegal votes that were cast."
According to Eastman, those "illegal votes" could have been the fault of "county clerks or state supreme court judges or secretaries of state."
"And if you count only the legal votes, Trump would have won," he added. "That's upholding the will of the people, not undermining it."
