‘He Just Confessed To The Crime’: Indicted Trump Attorney John Eastman Admits On Fox News He Pressured Pence To Delay Certifying Election Results

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Dang..these guys should know better. Shut-up and don't talk to the press!

MSN

Former Trump attorney John Eastman defended his efforts to block or delay Congress from certifying the 2020 election results in an interview with Fox News Wednesday night, claiming he wanted former Vice President Mike Pence to stop Congress from certifying the votes for a week even as he’s now been indicted in Georgia for his post-election efforts.
Eastman claimed to Fox host Laura Ingraham that he “explicitly” told Pence on January 4, 2021, that rejecting the electoral votes entirely would be “foolish,” but he advocated for the vice president to give state legislators in battleground states “a week to try and sort out the impact” of purported “illegality” in the election results (which there is no evidence to support).
Legal experts on X, formerly known as Twitter, questioned why Eastman would admit to asking Pence to delay the results, given the attorney has been indicted on charges related to his efforts to block Congress from certifying the election results on January 6, 2021.
"He literally just confessed to the crime,” national security attorney Bradley P. Moss wrote, while Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis noted Eastman was “admitting to committing federal crimes on television” and “should keep his mouth shut for his own benefit.”
Eastman has been indicted for racketeering, with the indictment citing his attempts to pressure Pence to reject or delay the results as furthering that alleged crime, and has also been indicted on separate charges for his role in the “fake elector” scheme, in which GOP officials submitted false slates of electors to Congress claiming Trump, rather than President Joe Biden, had won their states, which Eastman and others pushed as a way to help stop the results from being certified.

 

[August West]

Dang..these guys should know better. Shut-up and don't talk to the press!

MSN

Former Trump attorney John Eastman defended his efforts to block or delay Congress from certifying the 2020 election results in an interview with Fox News Wednesday night, claiming he wanted former Vice President Mike Pence to stop Congress from certifying the votes for a week even as he’s now been indicted in Georgia for his post-election efforts.
Eastman claimed to Fox host Laura Ingraham that he “explicitly” told Pence on January 4, 2021, that rejecting the electoral votes entirely would be “foolish,” but he advocated for the vice president to give state legislators in battleground states “a week to try and sort out the impact” of purported “illegality” in the election results (which there is no evidence to support).
Legal experts on X, formerly known as Twitter, questioned why Eastman would admit to asking Pence to delay the results, given the attorney has been indicted on charges related to his efforts to block Congress from certifying the election results on January 6, 2021.
"He literally just confessed to the crime,” national security attorney Bradley P. Moss wrote, while Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis noted Eastman was “admitting to committing federal crimes on television” and “should keep his mouth shut for his own benefit.”
Eastman has been indicted for racketeering, with the indictment citing his attempts to pressure Pence to reject or delay the results as furthering that alleged crime, and has also been indicted on separate charges for his role in the “fake elector” scheme, in which GOP officials submitted false slates of electors to Congress claiming Trump, rather than President Joe Biden, had won their states, which Eastman and others pushed as a way to help stop the results from being certified.

It seems like it was only yesterday when the crazies were chanting "lock her up" because she used email.

 

[White 6]

Dang..these guys should know better. Shut-up and don't talk to the press!

MSN

Former Trump attorney John Eastman defended his efforts to block or delay Congress from certifying the 2020 election results in an interview with Fox News Wednesday night, claiming he wanted former Vice President Mike Pence to stop Congress from certifying the votes for a week even as he’s now been indicted in Georgia for his post-election efforts.
Eastman claimed to Fox host Laura Ingraham that he “explicitly” told Pence on January 4, 2021, that rejecting the electoral votes entirely would be “foolish,” but he advocated for the vice president to give state legislators in battleground states “a week to try and sort out the impact” of purported “illegality” in the election results (which there is no evidence to support).
Legal experts on X, formerly known as Twitter, questioned why Eastman would admit to asking Pence to delay the results, given the attorney has been indicted on charges related to his efforts to block Congress from certifying the election results on January 6, 2021.
"He literally just confessed to the crime,” national security attorney Bradley P. Moss wrote, while Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis noted Eastman was “admitting to committing federal crimes on television” and “should keep his mouth shut for his own benefit.”
Eastman has been indicted for racketeering, with the indictment citing his attempts to pressure Pence to reject or delay the results as furthering that alleged crime, and has also been indicted on separate charges for his role in the “fake elector” scheme, in which GOP officials submitted false slates of electors to Congress claiming Trump, rather than President Joe Biden, had won their states, which Eastman and others pushed as a way to help stop the results from being certified.

I have made the point repeatedly on this board of the lack of professional ability of Republican lawyers. Eastman is another example.

 

[Arlette]

Everything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law

 

[Donald H]

I have made the point repeatedly on this board of the lack of professional ability of Republican lawyers. Eastman is another example.

Rather, it could be his total commitment to the Trump cause of the election being stolen.

Eastman and Trump's other faithful have to be all in on the stolen election. It's becoming their only defense, and it's a powerful one in the existing situation in which the coup attempt wasn't completely dealt with by the state.

If all the leaders of the attempted coup were dead, this slippery situation wouldn't exist.

 

[Mac1958]

Dang..these guys should know better. Shut-up and don't talk to the press!

I wonder how many attorneys haven't returned all these guys' calls asking for representation.

 

[Concerned American]

If all the leaders of the attempted coup were dead,

True colors? Your inner commie just came out for all to see, duck. First there was no coup or attempted coup, saying it does not make it true. Second, in America, we don't kill our political opposition. You must be wishing you were back in Russia where that is the norm.

 

[Donald H]

I wonder how many attorneys haven't returned all these guys' calls asking for representation.

If it turns out that the election was stolen, then everything that Trump has done that is viewed as against the law, is justified.

If Trump isn't convicted of some crimes, it will amount to Trump being declared to be justified on attempting to bring down a president who wasn't elected fairly.

Thereby accomplishing his attempted coup quite righteously.

And of course, Trump being elected as president would stop all legal proceeding against him except another attempted impeachment.

Americans must stop ignoring the possibilities. They're becoming probabilities, in a country where the people thought there was a gentle and lawful way of dealing with a (possible) traitor.

 

[Rigby5]

I have made the point repeatedly on this board of the lack of professional ability of Republican lawyers. Eastman is another example.

Wrong.
There is nothing remotely illegal about trying to delay certification if there is any hint of voter fraud.
And clearly it is impossible for there to have been any elector fraud, as everyone already was told the result on election night.

 

[Rigby5]

If it turns out that the election was stolen, then everything that Trump has done that is viewed as against the law, is justified.

If Trump isn't convicted of some crimes, it will amount to Trump being declared to be justified on attempting to bring down a president who wasn't elected fairly.

Thereby accomplishing his attempted coup quite righteously.

And of course, Trump being elected as president would stop all legal proceeding against him except another attempted impeachment.

Americans must stop ignoring the possibilities. They're becoming probabilities, in a country where the people thought there was a gentle and lawful way of dealing with a (possible) traitor.

I personally have no specific reason to suspect voter fraud, but the fraud to illegally interfere with the 2024 campaign if glaringly obvious.

 

[Lastamender]

Dang..these guys should know better. Shut-up and don't talk to the press!

MSN

Former Trump attorney John Eastman defended his efforts to block or delay Congress from certifying the 2020 election results in an interview with Fox News Wednesday night, claiming he wanted former Vice President Mike Pence to stop Congress from certifying the votes for a week even as he’s now been indicted in Georgia for his post-election efforts.
Eastman claimed to Fox host Laura Ingraham that he “explicitly” told Pence on January 4, 2021, that rejecting the electoral votes entirely would be “foolish,” but he advocated for the vice president to give state legislators in battleground states “a week to try and sort out the impact” of purported “illegality” in the election results (which there is no evidence to support).
Legal experts on X, formerly known as Twitter, questioned why Eastman would admit to asking Pence to delay the results, given the attorney has been indicted on charges related to his efforts to block Congress from certifying the election results on January 6, 2021.
"He literally just confessed to the crime,” national security attorney Bradley P. Moss wrote, while Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis noted Eastman was “admitting to committing federal crimes on television” and “should keep his mouth shut for his own benefit.”
Eastman has been indicted for racketeering, with the indictment citing his attempts to pressure Pence to reject or delay the results as furthering that alleged crime, and has also been indicted on separate charges for his role in the “fake elector” scheme, in which GOP officials submitted false slates of electors to Congress claiming Trump, rather than President Joe Biden, had won their states, which Eastman and others pushed as a way to help stop the results from being certified.

Pressuring is illegal?

 

[White 6]

Wrong.
There is nothing remotely illegal about trying to delay certification if there is any hint of voter fraud.
And clearly it is impossible for there to have been any elector fraud, as everyone already was told the result on election night.

Opening his mouth in public with prosecution pending is not too bright, according to most lawyers, but maybe they are Democrats as republican lawyer love for their clients to shoot their mouth off on their cases in public, while awaiting trial? I doubt it.

 

[Dragonlady]

If it turns out that the election was stolen, then everything that Trump has done that is viewed as against the law, is justified.

If Trump isn't convicted of some crimes, it will amount to Trump being declared to be justified on attempting to bring down a president who wasn't elected fairly.

Thereby accomplishing his attempted coup quite righteously.

And of course, Trump being elected as president would stop all legal proceeding against him except another attempted impeachment.

Americans must stop ignoring the possibilities. They're becoming probabilities, in a country where the people thought there was a gentle and lawful way of dealing with a (possible) traitor.

I have long said that if Trump had tried this is almost any other country in the world, he would have been taken out behind the White House and shot on January 7th. He should have been arrested sooner, but I think that Garland just hoped he's settle down and behave.

But Trump continues to commit crimes on a daily basis. Every time he lies about a "stolen election", he is doing damage to the democracy.

While I wouldn't shed a single tear if Trump's plane dropped out of the sky next week, like the guy who tried to overthow Putin. But I really don't want the government murdering him. I want him to die in jail, alone, forgotten.

 

[Donald H]

I have long said that if Trump had tried this is almost any other country in the world, he would have been taken out behind the White House and shot on January 7th. He should have been arrested sooner, but I think that Garland just hoped he's settle down and behave.

Absolutely but I wouldn't know or care what Garland was thinking. America may have made a critical mistake in not ending the attempted coup. America desperately needs a patriot with clear vision on what is still possible.

But Trump continues to commit crimes on a daily basis. Every time he lies about a "stolen election", he is doing damage to the democracy.

Yes.

While I wouldn't shed a single tear if Trump's plane dropped out of the sky next week, like the guy who tried to overthow Putin. But I really don't want the government murdering him. I want him to die in jail, alone, forgotten.

America forfeited the luxury to be able to choose which way can bring justice against a traitor. That's never supposed to happen in a democracy.

Your odds of Trump bringing justice to Biden and the D party are close to 50//50.

 

[August West]

True colors? Your inner commie just came out for all to see, duck. First there was no coup or attempted coup, saying it does not make it true. Second, in America, we don't kill our political opposition. You must be wishing you were back in Russia where that is the norm.

Call it whatever you like but these 2 rocket scientists bagged themselves lengthy sentences yesterday. 17 years and 15 years.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/31/proud-boys-joseph-biggs-sentencing-jan6-seditious-conspiracy/

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

True colors? Your inner commie just came out for all to see, duck. First there was no coup or attempted coup, saying it does not make it true. Second, in America, we don't kill our political opposition. You must be wishing you were back in Russia where that is the norm.

Denying their was a coup attempt is liabile for defamation as well as a potential accessory after the fact crime.

 

[SavannahMann]

If it turns out that the election was stolen, then everything that Trump has done that is viewed as against the law, is justified.

If Trump isn't convicted of some crimes, it will amount to Trump being declared to be justified on attempting to bring down a president who wasn't elected fairly.

Thereby accomplishing his attempted coup quite righteously.

And of course, Trump being elected as president would stop all legal proceeding against him except another attempted impeachment.

Americans must stop ignoring the possibilities. They're becoming probabilities, in a country where the people thought there was a gentle and lawful way of dealing with a (possible) traitor.

The Bible tells the story of God’s hand writing on the wall. And only Daniel of all the wisemen could read and explain it.

At this point, it is more likely that God’s own hand will appear and write the message that Trump is right than the election is proven to be stolen.

Because you wish to be a cult member and believe this nonsense does not make it true. And it does not give you or anyone the right to act in a conspiratorial criminal manner.

For years now, we asked what it would take to convince you believers the election wasn’t stolen. For years you kept saying a real investigation. There have been several that came up empty. How many more do you demand?

Two years the FBI, GBI, and SOS, investigated those two women in Fulton County. Two years and the investigations came up empty.

Cyber Ninja’s? Remember them? How they were going to prove Maricopa County was stolen? You could fart in a plastic bag and get more evidence than they did.

When they were finally shut down, remember what they wanted to do to prove the election was stolen? Interview every voter to ask them how they voted. Papers Comrade?

But we haven’t had a real investigation we are told. Any Real Investigation would totally prove it.

Riverside County California. The District Attorney, County Sheriff’s office, and Police, received more than 1,000 tips of people double voting. Dead people voting, and people from out of state voting.

Each claim was checked out by cops. Each one was investigated and afterwards they had uncovered Voter Fraud. One guy. One guy out of a thousand. One guy voted twice.

But we need a real investigation. You guys won’t even admit that every investigation has come up empty so far. You denounce them as part of this imaginary deep state. Corrupt police, politicians, lawyers, judges, and everyone is in on it.

Look up Paranoid Delusion and get back to me.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

At this point, it is more likely that God’s own hand will appear and write the message that Trump is wrong than the election is proven to be stolen.

 

[SavannahMann]

At this point, it is more likely that God’s own hand will appear and write the message that Trump is wrong than the election is proven to be stolen.

I left a possibility for divine intervention. I mean, it is possible. It is improbable to several decimal points. But it is possible.

 

[Donald H]

The Bible tells the story of God’s hand writing on the wall. And only Daniel of all the wisemen could read and explain it.

Superstitious nonsense.

At this point, it is more likely that God’s own hand will appear and write the message that Trump is right than the election is proven to be stolen.

Because you wish to be a cult member and believe this nonsense does not make it true. And it does not give you or anyone the right to act in a conspiratorial criminal manner.

For years now, we asked what it would take to convince you believers the election wasn’t stolen. For years you kept saying a real investigation. There have been several that came up empty. How many more do you demand?

Two years the FBI, GBI, and SOS, investigated those two women in Fulton County. Two years and the investigations came up empty.

Cyber Ninja’s? Remember them? How they were going to prove Maricopa County was stolen? You could fart in a plastic bag and get more evidence than they did.

When they were finally shut down, remember what they wanted to do to prove the election was stolen? Interview every voter to ask them how they voted. Papers Comrade?

But we haven’t had a real investigation we are told. Any Real Investigation would totally prove it.

Riverside County California. The District Attorney, County Sheriff’s office, and Police, received more than 1,000 tips of people double voting. Dead people voting, and people from out of state voting.

Each claim was checked out by cops. Each one was investigated and afterwards they had uncovered Voter Fraud. One guy. One guy out of a thousand. One guy voted twice.

But we need a real investigation. You guys won’t even admit that every investigation has come up empty so far. You denounce them as part of this imaginary deep state. Corrupt police, politicians, lawyers, judges, and everyone is in on it.

Look up Paranoid Delusion and get back to me.

Rather than get into any details, I'll just agree with all of that.