Tag Archives: John Eastman

Eastman Claimed He Heard About SCOTUS Justices In “Heated Fight” Over Taking Up Wisconsin Election Suit

The New York Times reports: A lawyer advising President Donald J. Trump claimed in an email after Election Day 2020 to have insight into a “heated fight” among the Supreme Court justices over whether to hear arguments about the president’s efforts to overturn his defeat at the polls, two people briefed on the email said. The lawyer, John Eastman, made …

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QAnon Ginni Was Trading Emails With John Eastman

The Washington Post reports: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has obtained email correspondence between Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and lawyer John Eastman, who played a key role in efforts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to block the certification of Joe Biden’s victory, according to three …

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Eastman Ordered To Give Trove Of Docs To Riot Panel

Politico reports: A federal judge Tuesday ordered John Eastman — the attorney who developed former President Donald Trump’s last-ditch strategy to overturn the election — to disclose a batch of 159 sensitive documents to the Jan. 6 select committee, including another email that the judge said presented evidence of a likely crime. In a 26-page ruling, U.S. District Court Judge …

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New Eastman Filing Details Conspiring With Trump

Politico reports: John Eastman, the attorney who architected Donald Trump’s last-ditch legal strategy to overturn the 2020 election, revealed Friday that he routinely communicated with Trump either directly or via “six conduits” during the chaotic weeks that preceded the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. In a late-night court filing urging a federal judge to maintain the confidentiality of his …

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Eastman Urged PA Officials To Toss Absentee Ballots

Politico reports: Attorney John Eastman urged Republican legislators in Pennsylvania to retabulate the state’s popular vote — and throw out tens of thousands of absentee ballots — in order to show Donald Trump with a lead, according to newly unearthed emails sent in December 2020, as Trump pressured GOP lawmakers to subvert his defeat. This recalculation, he posited in an …

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Eastman To Turn Over 10,000 Pages Of Trump Emails

Politico reports: Attorney John Eastman, a key architect of Donald Trump’s legal effort to overturn the 2020 election, is preparing to provide another 10,000 pages of records to the Jan. 6 select committee, his attorney revealed late Friday. It’s the latest breakthrough for investigators in their ongoing fight to obtain details of Trump’s last-ditch plans to overturn his election loss. …

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Eastman Won’t Turn Over 37K Pages Of Trump Emails

Politico reports: Attorney John Eastman revealed Monday that he has asserted attorney-client privilege on 37,000 pages of emails related to his work for then-President Donald Trump in the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The Jan. 6 select committee has objected to “every claim” over those pages, which now sends the gargantuan dispute to U.S. District Court …

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MTG And Gaetz Funneled $25K To Ex-Trump Lawyer

Congress Minutes reports: Put America First, a joint fundraising committee run by Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), paid at least $25,000 for legal services since September to the Constitutional Counsel Group. That’s the law firm of John Eastman, a onetime legal adviser to former President Donald Trump. The nature of these payments: It’s unclear what Eastman’s …

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Eastman Still Trying To Have WI Election Decertified

ABC News reports: Just as he was emerging as a top target of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack, former Trump lawyer John Eastman took a trip to Wisconsin. On March 16, Eastman and others spent nearly two hours behind closed doors pressuring Republican Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to nullify the 2020 election and reclaim the electors awarded …

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Federal Judge Finds Trump Likely Committed Felonies

The New York Times reports: A federal judge ruled on Monday that former President Donald J. Trump and a lawyer who advised him on how to overturn the 2020 election most likely committed felonies, including obstructing the work of Congress and conspiring to defraud the United States. The judge’s comments marked a significant breakthrough for the House committee investigating the …

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Riot Panel Examines Ted Cruz’s Role In Coup Planning

The Washington Post reports: Sen. Ted Cruz was dining near the Capitol on the evening of Dec. 8, 2020, when he received an urgent call from President Donald Trump. A lawsuit had just been filed at the Supreme Court designed to overturn the election Trump had lost, and the president wanted help from the Texas Republican. “Would you be willing …

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QAnon Ginni May Have Influenced Coup Planning

Politico reports: Ginni Thomas’ unfettered access to Donald Trump’s chief of staff — and potentially others in his West Wing — raises new questions about another figure at the center of Trump’s gambit to subvert the 2020 election: attorney John Eastman. The select committee has evidence that when a top Pence aide challenged Eastman’s plan on Jan. 4, 2021, Eastman …

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Emails Show Trump Lawyer Knew Scheme Was Illegal

The Guardian reports: Interrupting the certification of Joe Biden’s election win on 6 January last year as part of the scheme to return Donald Trump to office was known to be unlawful by at least one of the former president’s lawyers, according to an email exchange about the potential conspiracy. The former Trump lawyer John Eastman – who helped coordinate …

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Trump Lawyer Loses Round In Bid To Hide Documents

Politico reports: A federal judge has rejected an attempt by attorney John Eastman — the architect of Donald Trump’s legal strategy to overturn the 2020 election — to slow down the Jan. 6 select committee’s push to obtain documents they say could show the former president criminally conspired with Eastman to subvert the democratic process. In a late Friday order, …

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Riot Panel Filing: Trump May Face Criminal Charges

The New York Times reports: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol said on Wednesday that there was enough evidence to conclude that former President Donald J. Trump and some of his allies might have conspired to commit fraud and obstruction by misleading Americans about the outcome of the 2020 election and attempting to overturn the …

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California Bar Investigates Cultist Lawyer John Eastman

Forbes reports: Former Trump legal adviser John C. Eastman, who outlined a legal strategy for overturning the 2020 presidential election, has been under investigation since September by the State Bar of California for possible legal and ethical violations, the bar announced Tuesday. The bar said Eastman may have breached California law and attorney ethics rules in connection to the election, …

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Eastman Refuses To Release Emails To Riot Committee

Politico reports: Attorney John Eastman, a close ally of Donald Trump amid his effort to subvert the 2020 election, has attempted to shield more than 10,000 pages of emails and counting from congressional investigators, citing attorney client or attorney work-product privileges. In a court filing early Monday, Eastman said he has reviewed about 46,000 pages — nearly half the total …

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Trump Lawyer Pleaded The Fifth Nearly 150 Times

CNN reports: A federal judge is forcing a conservative lawyer who had worked for then-President Donald Trump before the January 6 insurrection to respond to a House select committee subpoena of Chapman University for his emails — setting congressional investigators up to receive access to information they’ve wanted for months but had not been able to get. John Eastman had …

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Trump Lawyer Sues To Block Release Of Phone Records

CNN reports: Conservative lawyer John Eastman is suing Verizon and the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol over a subpoena issued by the panel for his phone records, according to court documents. Eastman argues that the committee’s subpoena is “invalid” for several reasons, and notably he attempts to differentiate between the rallies held on …

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Carlson: Why Comply With “Soviet” Riot Committee?

Mediaite reports: “Why comply?” asked Tucker Carlson. “I mean, honestly, at this point, look, if it’s totally fake. This is just some Soviet show trial, which it is, why would the rest of us have any kind of obligation to play along with it, honestly?” “Well, we shouldn’t but Congress has the power to issue criminal contempt,” responded Eastman. “Normally, …

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