Attorney John Eastman surrenders to authorities on charges in Georgia 2020 election subversion case

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By KATE BRUMBACK
Updated 9:35 AM CDT, August 22, 2023

ATLANTA (AP) — John Eastman, the conservative attorney who pushed a plan to keep Donald Trump in power, turned himself in to authorities Tuesday on charges in the Georgia case alleging an illegal plot to overturn the former president’s 2020 election loss.

Eastman was booked at the Fulton County jail before being released by authorities. He’s expected later face a judge to be arraigned in the sprawling racketeering case brought last week.

Eastman is charged alongside former President Donald Trump and 17 others, who are accused by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis of scheming to subvert the will of Georgia voters in a desperate bid to keep Democrat Joe Biden out of the White House.

Eastman, a former dean of Chapman University law school in Southern California, was a close adviser to Trump in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters intent on halting the certification of Biden’s electoral victory.




Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-georgia-election-indictment-fulton-county-clark-7641b5c61dbcc39ee3f0edbe51558925

[NCjack]

1. LOCK-HIM-UP

[republianmushroom]

7. agree

[hibbing]

2. Off topic: Nose hair trimmers n/t

[Tree-Hugger]

4. Why?

Why did I zoom in to see what you meant? WHY?

[hibbing]

5. I didn't have to zoom, but sorry about that! n/t

[Polly Hennessey]

16. Don't be sorry. I do it too.

Am fascinated by the faces of zealous tRumpian jerks. Always looking for clues in their faces that might give them away. Will consider nose hairs in the future. 😅

[ShazzieB]

25. I know, me, too!

Ewwwwwwww!!!!!

[Comfortably_Numb]

26. He looks like a party favor... the kind you blow and they spread out.

[peppertree]

3. What? No undersized scarf? No oversized fedora?

Would've been a nice touch.

[Lonestarblue]

6. It turns out the far right have more connections to the Claremont Institute.

Perhaps they need to be designated as a domestic terrorist organization.

“The founder and sponsor of a far-right network of secretive, men-only, invitation-only fraternal lodges in the US is a former industrialist who has frequently speculated about his future as a warlord after the collapse of America, a Guardian investigation has found.

Federal and state tax and company filings show that the Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR) and its creator, Charles Haywood, also have financial ties with the far-right Claremont Institute.

SACR’s most recent IRS filing names Haywood as the national organization’s principal officer. Other filings identify three lodges in Idaho – in Boise, Coeur d’Alene and Moscow – and another in Dallas, Texas.

SACR’s public-facing presence is confined to a slick one-page website advertising the organization’s goal as “civilizational renaissance”, and a society “with strong leadership committed to family and culture”.

The site claims SACR is “raising accountable leaders to help build thriving communities of free citizens” who will rebuild “the frontier-conquering spirit of America”. It condemns “those who rule today”, saying that they “corrupt the sinews of America”, “[alienate] men from family, community, and God” and promising to “counter and conquer this poison”.”


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/22/charles-haywood-claremont-institute-sacr-far-right

[erronis]

19. Thanks for that link. Charles Haywood - "Maximum Leader", "looking to cause trouble"

This is who funds Claremont? And who Eastman and others hold in high esteem?

One idea he has repeatedly raised on the website is that he might serve as a “warlord” at the head of an “armed patronage network” or “APN”, defined as an “organizing device in conditions where central authority has broken down” in which the warlord’s responsibility is “the short- and long-term protection, military and otherwise, of those who recognize his authority and act, in part, at his behest”.

The “possibilities involving violence” that APNs might face, Haywood writes include “more-or-less open warfare with the federal government, or some subset or remnant of it”.

Further on, Haywood writes: “At this moment I preside over what amounts to a extended, quite sizeable, compound, which when complete I like to say, accurately, will be impervious to anything but direct organized military attack”, adding that “it requires a group of men to make it work … what I call ‘shooters’ – say fifteen able-bodied, and adequately trained, men.”

These “shooters”, Haywood explains, “can operate my compound, both defensively and administratively”, meanwhile, “I have the personality, and skills, to lead such a group.”

[Botany]

8. FAFO

[erronis]

20. Another tick - swollen body and bloated head.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. One by one...

[Botany]

10. And this is just in Georgia but D.A. Willis use of RICO charges will make some of the 19 get chatty

Would you want to spend 5 years in prison for Donny?

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Well we saw the reports about and self-admitting comments

from Jenna Ellis regarding her basically being thrown under the bus with respect to 45 paying her legal bills.

Michael Cohen warned them all.

[Ladythatvotesblue]

12. Eastman

needs to be disbarred...and locked up!!!

[ProfessorGAC]

24. His Hearing Was Coming Up

He asked for a delay using the "I'm in bigger trouble for committing crimes elsewhere" defense.
Yeah, that should work!

[FSogol]

28. He turned himself in on his disbarment hearing day, successfully postponning it.

[ProfessorGAC]

29. That's Terribly Convenient

That shouldn't be a good reason to miss the hearing without further sanction.
Yes, it's impossible to be in both places at once, but that shouldn't be the disciplinary board's problem.
Unless, of course, the failure to appear is treated as a negative in disbarment proceedings.

[jaxexpat]

13. It's the remorseless/relentless arrogance of these jerks that will ultimately be their downfall.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. Insurrection is not the legal follow-on to failed litigation

Somehow this putz didn't get it.

[617Blue]

15. There are these devices which can be used to trim nose hair.

dumb ugly f***.

[erronis]

21. Hedge-trimmers? Just don't poke them too far up!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. This makes me smile

Link to tweet

[EndlessWire]

18. I know this is picky

but, lately the professional journalists have murky writing that I am having to read and reread to see what they are trying to say. Most of it is innocent, and some of it seems like they were drunk when they wrote it, still innocent.

This may seem inconsequential, but it bugs me:

"... in a desperate bid to keep Democrat Joe Biden out of the White House."

To me, this is a subtle shift of the GOP's intent. This makes it seem like the J6 was some kind of heroic action. It doesn't clobber you over the head, but it is a bit of a whitewash stuck in the middle of the article. It interrupts the flow and makes you reread to see where you went wrong.

None of these insurrectionists have one bit of heroism attached to them. The meaning of J6 is that Donald J. Trump wanted to hang onto power for himself, and that in order to do that, he and his buddies had to overthrow the Government. Period. If they were desperate, it was because Trump lost the election cleanly, and it was on to Plan B, and Plan C. It was not because Biden was any kind of threat to our Democracy.

It is possible to miswrite just in trying to change up and vary the language and sentence structure. This example is not even very significant. But, this is AP, a trusted source that many skim quickly because of that trust.

The GOP had no desperation to keep Biden out of the WH, surely not the desperation that we feel today about Trump. They were desperate to keep Trump in power, a wannabe dictator who to this day wants to tear up our Constitution and assume control over our lives like Kim, Xi and Putin have over their people.

Subtle shifts in meaning may not even trigger your suspicion radar, but they will remain, like a film over your reason. You can't always write perfectly clearly with innocence, but you can try, dammit.

I'm only saying this because there was that one article recently that was completely encrypted, and I let it go, thinking my old brain was letting me down somehow. This is me fighting back. Typos are one thing, intent is another.

[erronis]

22. Agree. And I'd take to the bottle if I had to write about these people.

Since most of the (R) congress-critters have started their cocktails before session...

[Kennah]

23. Flip, John, Flip!

[brooklynite]

27. UPDATE: John Eastman strolls out of Fulton County jail and immediately declares election stolen

Raw Story

Former Trump attorney John Eastman continued to insist the 2020 presidential election was stolen minutes after he turned himself in to be arrested at an Atlanta-area jail.

MSNBC's Ali Vitali caught up with Eastman moments after being charged for allegedly conspiring with Donald Trump and others to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.

"Do you still think the election was stolen?" Vitali asked.

"Absolutely," Eastman replied. "No question, no question at all."

[riversedge]

30. and a tweet of him saying it...........

Link to tweet

?s=20

[riversedge]

31. Eastman's defense will be"and I am just an old feeble man with a feeble mind"

[BlueIdaho]

32. What was his bail?

Is he in the $100,000 dollar club?

[Johnny2X2X]

33. For here in out

This is Trump’s life. Endless court hearings and surrenders. And flips. And amended charges. Etc. It’s never going to end for him now.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

34. Here is John Eastman's mug shot

Link to tweet