Trump election lawyer John Eastman appeared earlier than a Georgia grand jury on Wednesday for the crime of asking state legislatures to nominate Trump electors after Election Day.
Earlier this 12 months John Eastman mentioned the state legislatures have the authority to switch electors as a result of fraudulent outcomes throughout an interview with Steve Bannon.
Eastman told Steve Bannon: “We are able to level to Part 2 of Title 3 of the USA Code that claims when a state has had an election and has failed to select on the day that was prescribed by regulation, which means the selection that was made, the belief is it was fraudulently given due to the unlawful votes, the electors might be made on a subsequent date in such method because the legislature in some state could direct.”
Radical Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis focused Eastman and different Trump allies for daring to talk out in opposition to Democrat voter fraud within the 2020 election.
Eastman’s attorneys mentioned their shopper pleaded the Fifth and asserted attorney-client privilege.
“In his look earlier than the Fulton County Particular Grand Jury, we suggested our shopper John Eastman to claim legal professional shopper privilege and the constitutional proper to stay silent the place applicable. Out of respect for grand jury secrecy we won’t disclose the substance of the questions or testimony. We want to thank the grand jurors for his or her service.” Eastman’s attorneys mentioned in a statement.
“By all indications, the District Lawyer’s Workplace has set itself on an unprecedented path of criminalizing controversial or disfavored authorized theories, probably in hopes that the federal authorities will observe its lead.” the attorneys, Charles Burnham and Harvey Silvergate wrote.
“Criminalization of unpopular authorized theories is in opposition to each American custom and would have ended the careers of John Adams, Ruth Ginsburg, Thurgood Marshall and lots of different now-celebrated American attorneys. We ask all observers of any political persuasion to hitch us in decrying this troubling improvement.” the attorneys added.
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton blasted the Fulton County DA for harassing John Eastman.
Who’s operating Georgia and permitting this political abuse of the regulation to focus on Trump and different Individuals for “wrongthink”? https://t.co/f3MT6iv1tY
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) August 31, 2022
The January 6 Committee despatched the feds after Trump lawyer John Eastman as a result of he dared to take motion in opposition to the Democrats and their large election fraud operation in 2020.
Trump’s election lawyer John Eastman mentioned the FBI searched and seized his telephone in June, based on a brand new courtroom submitting.
Eastman filed a federal lawsuit in New Mexico in June and requested a choose to order the feds to return his property and block the January 6 investigators from accessing his telephone.
Based on the courtroom submitting, John Eastman was exiting a restaurant together with his spouse and pal when FBI brokers ambushed him and “compelled” him to unlock his telephone.
The federal brokers then took Eastman’s iPhone 12 Professional.
Tucker Carlson Interviews Conservative Lawyer John Eastman To Focus on The Democrats’ January sixth Witch-Hunt & The FBI Seizing His Cellphone With out Displaying Him A Warrant pic.twitter.com/Ei1ZY3IzpX
— The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸 (@ColumbiaBugle) June 28, 2022
