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!”
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….
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