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Ex-Chapman Law dean John Eastman concedes he’s Co-Conspirator 2, likes photo we ran

By malls on August 2, 2023

For an attorney whose erstwhile client — the former president of the United States — was indicted on criminal charges of conspiring to overthrow an election (based on said attorney’s advice), ex-Chapman Law dean John Eastman/Co-Conspirator 2 has responded with a signature blend of jovial philosophizing and dark warnings.

“Lots of speculation swirling around today about whether I am one of the unindicted co-conspirators mentioned in the latest indictment handed down by the Biden administration against its most likely opponent in the next election, Donald Trump,” Eastman said on his legal defense fundraising page in a post dated Aug. 2. “Given the level of detail in the indictment and quotations from my speeches and emails, much of which is already public, it was not hard to move from speculation to confirmation, as this story in the Los Angeles Daily News by Orange County Register reporter Teri Sforza does.  At least they used a better photo than the OC Register has been using!”

Attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power, listens to questions from reporters after a hearing in Los Angeles, Tuesday, June 20, 2023. This is the photo he wrote that he liked that we used. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Attorney John Eastman, the architect of a legal strategy aimed at keeping former President Donald Trump in power, listens to questions from reporters after a hearing in Los Angeles, Tuesday, June 20, 2023. This is the photo he wrote that he liked that we used. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

We’ll credit photo editor Michele Cardon with that one — she was sick of me recycling the same tired shots of Eastman (check out the rejects below!) and pulled a new one from our pals at the Associated Press.

It’s unclear, though, if Eastman’s joviality will hold. Trump’s defense team appears to throw Eastman under the proverbial bus, arguing that Trump’s efforts to reverse his election loss were based on legal advice he got at the time — advice that largely came from Eastman’s (fringe) theories about the vice president’s power while counting state-certified electoral ballots.

The official statement from Eastman’s attorneys journeys into the literary:

“Almost fifteen years ago, John Eastman defense counsel Harvey Silverglate predicted in the book ‘Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent’ that the ever expanding federal criminal code was liable to be misused for improper political purposes,” says the statement from Washington D.C. law firm Burnham and Gorokhov. “This prediction finds its fulfillment in the current administration’s use of heretofore obscure federal statutes to indict its leading political opponent in multiple jurisdictions.

“The latest indictment relies on a misleading presentation of the record to contrive criminal charges against Presidential candidate Trump and to cast ominous aspersions on his close advisors. For example, the uninitiated reader of the indictment would have no idea that former Vice President (Mike) Pence is on record stating that in the 2020 election there were ‘significant allegations of voting irregularities and numerous instances of officials setting aside state election law.’ This is but one example of the indictment’s false presentation of the record; countless more will be revealed in time.

“With respect to questions as to whether Dr. Eastman is involved in plea bargaining, the answer is no. But if he were invited to plea bargain with either state or federal prosecutors, he would decline. The fact is, if Dr. Eastman is indicted, he will go to trial. If convicted, he will appeal. The Eastman legal team is confident of its legal position in this matter.”

Eastman offered his two cents, clinging tight to his claims of massive illegality in the presidential election (which have been roundly rejected by courts and election officials from both parties).

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Trump’s indictment “is as full of half truths and distortions of the actual record as the long-running ‘Russian collusion’ hoax was,” Eastman wrote. “But the deep state is bent on pushing the false narrative that there was nothing wrong with the 2020 election. They’re the government, after all, and we’re all just supposed to bend the knee when they decide what is truth.

“No mention of the ‘significant allegations of voting irregularities and numerous instances of state officials setting aside state election law’ — that is, acting unconstitutionally — as former Vice President Pence admitted. No mention of the significant amount of evidence that was available then, or confirmed subsequently, of illegality at the very least. No mention of court decisions confirming the illegality of drop boxes, elimination of voter ID requirements, alteration of deadlines, etc., etc. Nothing to see here. Move along.

“And if you dare to question us, as former President Trump has done, well, we’ll scour the law books until we find some statute we can creatively use against you. Former Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson warned of the dangers of such an abuse of prosecutorial authority more than 80 years ago:  The most dangerous power of a prosecutor is that he will pick people he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted, Jackson told a convention of U.S. Attorneys.

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“That warning is even more salient today….  Much more to this story, of course, and one can hope that at some point, a non-slanted version of the actual events of 2020 will come to the forefront, as I begin to do with my Tom Klingenstein interviews …. Be well.”

Amid all this drama — everyone on the edge of his/her seat, waiting to see if the co-conspirators will be charged as well — Eastman is fighting to hold onto his California law license amid charges of “dishonesty and moral turpitude” from the California Bar, but has not yet been charged with any crimes. He has been asking for prayers — and $500,000 — for his legal defense fund on GiveSendGo.com/Eastman. He has raised nearly $470,000 to date, including a dozen or so small donations in the hours after Trump’s indictment was announced.

“Praying for you and bless you for your strength and courage to fight against those trying to destroy our Country and its values,” an anonymous donor said.


Source: Orange County Register

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