State Bar & Bar Associations
Jun. 22, 2023
Pence’s lawyer says Trump’s counsel helped incite riot
Greg Jacob, testifying against John Eastman in a State Bar trial, said he was offended “by the advice that I had seen given, and what had resulted from there.”
The testimony of John Eastman, defending himself against State Bar charges that his legal advice to President Donald Trump and a speech threatened the 2020 elections, was interrupted on Wednesday, as prosecutors called Greg Jacob, former attorney to Vice President Mike Pence, to the stand out of order.
"I was offended for my profession," Jacob said when asked by bar prosecutor Duncan C. Carling why he wrote an unpublished op-ed criticizing...
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