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Trumps Team Setting Up Eastman to Take Blame
June 20, 2022 at 9:13 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 72 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2022/06/20/trumps-team-setting-up-eastman-to-take-blame/
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With the Justice Department and Jan. 6 committee taking a close look at Donald Trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 election, he and his cronies could certainly use a fall guy, and it looks like theyve found their patsy: right-wing lawyer John Eastman, Rolling Stone reports.
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.
The ex-president is also deeply annoyed with Eastman and all the negative attention and media coverage that the lawyers work has brought Trump and his inner sanctum, including during the ongoing Jan. 6 hearings on Capitol Hill.
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Taegan Goddard:
Entirely predictable, but Trump better hope Eastman doesnt flip.
Blue Owl
(58,618 posts)agingdem
(8,789 posts)Trump's handwritten Post-it notes and make a deal with the DOJ..just saying
Justice matters.
(9,558 posts)Much too stoopid for that, and a coward.
He didn't hold any power to stop the insurrection in 187 minutes too.
jcgoldie
(12,046 posts)applegrove
(131,101 posts)Joinfortmill
(20,518 posts)usonian
(24,147 posts)An Eastman Kodak moment. 📷
LetMyPeopleVote
(176,794 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(176,794 posts)smb
(3,598 posts)fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)Just saying. They are admitting their guilt.
