Defiant Attorney John Eastman Continues To Push Election Fraud Claims Ahead of Georgia Felony Trial
FULTON COUNTY, GA – Attorney John Eastman, a key strategist in plans to upend the 2020 presidential election results in favor of Donald Trump, continues to advance claims of vote fraud, and is hopeful the judge at his Georgia criminal trial on multiple felony counts will be fair.
“I’ve not seen him not faithfully apply the law, so I’m encouraged,” Eastman told The Messenger, referring to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee.
“We look forward to the cases ultimately being dismissed,” Eastman said before speaking to a couple of dozen supporters at a fundraising event for his legal defense in Roswell, north of Atlanta, which he labeled as a talk on “Orwellian Dystopia.”
Eastman attended pre-trial motions Friday in McAfee’s Atlanta courtroom.
He pleaded not guilty last year to nine felony counts in the massive Fulton County election racketeering indictment brought against Trump, Eastman and 17 other co-conspirators in August.
Eastman is also an unindicted co-conspirator in the federal criminal case against Trump brought by Jack Smith in Washington, D.C.. In addition, the former law school professor is fighting disbarment proceedings in California, where he is licensed to practice law.
Eastman is considered an architect of the plan to toss out electoral votes after Trump lost the presidential race in 2020 — and instead present a slate of “fake” electors to manipulate the vote in favor of Trump.
The battle to throw out legitimate electoral votes and not declare Joe Biden the winner on Jan. 6, 2021 — which then-Vice President Mike Pence refused to go along with — fueled the riot at the Capitol that day.
Eastman took the opportunity Saturday to rail again over his unproven claims of election fraud to some 30 supporters in a rented office space. He said he was proud to do what he did.
Eastman called it the “greatest honor of my life that I’ve been cast at the forefront of the battle for our time.”
He tiptoed around comments regarding the counting of ballots in 2020 at Atlanta’s State Farm arena in the wake of $148 million in defamation damages levied against former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani for falsely accusing mother-and-daughter poll workers of fraud.
“They say that the State Farm arena fraud has been debunked and anybody that continues to insist that it was illegal, is going to get hit with a defamation suit, like Rudy Giuliani did,” Eastman said.
“I’ve never claimed that [there were] suitcases of ballots brought out …. I’ve never claimed there were fraudulent ballots in those bins. Maybe there were, maybe there weren’t. We don’t know,” he added.
Eastman took jabs at Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis in light of allegations of a romantic relationship with her special prosecutor, Nathan Wade, that he suggested threatens to imperil the case.
“The prosecutorial function is to serve justice for the community, and when you find that you’re being driven by other incentives than that, it calls into question the prosecutorial judgements that are being rendered,” Eastman said.
Eastman has already raised nearly $620,000 on the fundraising platform GiveSendGo. Checks and cash — collected in a hat — were also accepted at the Roswell event.
As for the next election in 2024, Eastman said he’s “optimistic because in every precinct in every state across the country, groups like this are meeting every week … to keep eye on the election process.”
But he also said that there are “still parts of this system that’s run in black box that we don’t get to look at very often.”
Maybe it depends on who wins.
