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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
(50,578 posts)agingdem
(7,874 posts)Trump's handwritten Post-it notes and make a deal with the DOJ..just saying
Justice matters.
(6,955 posts)Much too stoopid for that, and a coward.
He didn't hold any power to stop the insurrection in 187 minutes too.
jcgoldie
(11,658 posts)applegrove
(118,912 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,511 posts)usonian
(9,974 posts)An Eastman Kodak moment. 📷
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,894 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,894 posts)smb
(3,478 posts)fightforfreedom
(4,913 posts)Just saying. They are admitting their guilt.