Exclusive: Trump's Team Setting Up Eastman to Take Blame for Jan.

[Nevilledog]

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John FitzGerald
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Trump has privately insisted he “hardly” or “barely” knows Eastman, despite the fact that he counseled Trump on taking a string of extra-legal measures in a bid to stay in power and wrote the “coup memo.”

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Exclusive: Trump’s Team Setting Up Eastman to Take Blame for Jan. 6
Trump in recent weeks has told confidants that he sees no reason to defend the lawyer who tried to help him overturn the 2020 election
5:19 PM · Jun 20, 2022

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/jan6-eastman-trump-committee-investigation-pardons-1371419/

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With the Justice Department and Jan. 6 committee taking a close look at Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, he and his cronies could certainly use a fall guy, and it looks like they’ve found their patsy: right-wing lawyer John Eastman.

Eastman worked for Trump as the attorney devised legal strategies to overturn the election to keep the outgoing president in power. But, in recent weeks, Trump has confided to those close to him that he sees no reason to publicly defend Eastman, two people familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone. The ex-president is also deeply annoyed with Eastman and all the negative “attention” and media coverage that the lawyer’s work has brought Trump and his inner sanctum, including during the ongoing Jan. 6 hearings on Capitol Hill.

Furthermore, to those who’ve spoken Trump about Eastman in recent months, the ex-president has repeated an excuse he often uses when backed into a corner, as investigators confront him with an associates’ misdeeds: He has privately insisted he “hardly” or “barely” knows Eastman, despite the fact that he counseled Trump on taking a string of extra-legal measures in a bid to stay in power and wrote the so-called “coup memo,” which laid out the facsimile of a legal argument for reversing Trump’s election defeat.

Behind closed doors, Trump will occasionally ask questions about Eastman’s fortunes, including bluntly inquiring: “Is [John] going to jail?” according to a source who has heard the former president say this. But publicly, Trump has stayed silent. Over the past several months, Trump has been strongly advised by lawyers and several associates not to openly discuss Eastman or his work — and to personally avoid the man altogether, according to three sources familiar with the matter. At this time, Trump, his legal advisers, and various political counselors would prefer to cut ties with Eastman and keep their distance, in a perhaps vain attempt to build a firewall between the lawyer who enthusiastically pitched strategies for delegitimizing the 2020 election outcome and the ex-president who repeatedly sought his help.

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[Me.]

1. Goody

That will open his mouth.

[Nevilledog]

12. I don't know. He's a true believer.

I think it was only a month ago he was in Wisconsin trying to convince them they could decertify the 2020 election.

[Turbineguy]

2. Well, in a way that makes sense.

Smart clients take the advice of their advocates.

Trump won't hesitate to stab Eastman in the back.

[gulliver]

3. Hopefully that means Eastman is flipping.

"I never met that guy," is what Trump does when someone's about to turn on him. Maybe Eastman is going to do a Michael Cohen, only this time it's about seditious conspiracy, not just a payoff to a porn star.

[Mr.Bill]

6. If he's looking for leniency for flipping,

He'll need to amake a deal with Garland. The january 6th committee have no authority to give leniency or make any kind of a deal.

[C_U_L8R]

4. The slow motion unraveling of Trump

is as excruciating as it is enjoyable.

[keithbvadu2]

5. He brought us coffee once.

Plenty of room - UNDER the Trump bus

[Nevilledog]

8. There's always a tweet

[sop]

7. Witness for the prosecution at Trump's trial? Lordy, I hope there are tapes.

[dweller]

9. Is [John] going to jail?

Why yes, [Pisswig] is going to jail …


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[Skittles]

10. surprising he didn't say he hardly knows Ivanka

what a fucking coward he is

[Nevilledog]

11. Depends on whether you mean in the biblical sense.

[UTUSN]

13. So what's EASTMAN's take on this?