THE
INGRAHAM ANGLE
John Eastman warns that freedom of speech is
'gone' after Fulton County charges
Eastman
will appear for an exclusive interview on the 'Ingraham Angle' Tuesday at 7pm
Brooke
Singman By Brooke Singman Fox News
Published
August 29, 2023 6:30pm EDT
EXCLUSIVE:
Former Trump attorney John Eastman warned that "freedom of speech" is
"gone" in an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham
Tuesday night.
Former
President Trump, Eastman, and 17 others were charged out of Fulton County
District Attorney Fani Willis’ investigation into alleged efforts to overturn
the 2020 election in Georgia.
"We
did nothing wrong," Eastman told Ingraham in a multi-part interview. Part
one of the interview will air at 7:00 p.m. ET Tuesday on the "Ingraham
Angle" on Fox News Channel.
"We
were challenging the election for what even Vice President Pence described as
serious allegations of fraud and numerous instances of officials violating
state law," Eastman said. "And if we can't speak out about that, then
our freedom of speech, our right to petition the government for redress of
grievances are gone."
Eastman was
charged with nine counts of crimes, including racketeering, conspiracy to
commit forgery, and filing false documents. He turned himself in to the Fulton
County Jail last week and accepted a bond of $100,000.
Eastman, a
former dean of Chapman University law school in Southern California, is facing
charges related to his advice to Trump on how the former president could
overturn the 2020 election.
John
Eastman, a former Trump attorney, turned himself into the Fulton County Jail
Tuesday morning on charges related to his advice to Trump on how the former
president could overturn the 2020 election. He accepted a $100,000 bond.
(Fulton County Sheriff's Office)
Eastman has
slammed the indictment for targeting attorneys for "zealous advocacy on
behalf of their clients," and said each defendant should be entitled to
rely on the advice of lawyers and past legal precedent.
"The
people that I was representing had a right to counsel," Eastman told
Ingraham. "And what's going on here with the bar complaint against
everybody involved in any of the litigation, this Fulton County complaint, the
unindicted coconspirators in the federal action, they're trying to stifle
people from being able to get representation in election challenges."
He added:
"They’ve made that very clear that that's what they're up to, and we can't
allow it to happen."
Eastman
said that if "disputed questions of constitutional law all of a sudden
become criminal, we could throw the entire legal profession, the entire legal
academy in jail."
"The
fact of the matter is, throughout our history, significant leaders in Congress
have argued that Congress doesn't have authority under the 12th Amendment, that
the founders specifically designed it that way so that the president wouldn't
owe his job to Congress," Eastman explained, adding that it is "a
core separation of powers principle that the founders adopted."
Trump was
charged with one count of violation of the Georgia RICO Act, three counts of
criminal solicitation, six counts of criminal conspiracy, one count of filing
false documents and two counts of making false statements.
Trump has
been indicted four times, making him the first president in United States
history to face criminal charges.
Willis and
Fulton County prosecutors charged Trump’s senior political aides.
In addition
to Eastman, former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and top
attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Kenneth Chesebro, and Jeff
Clark, were charged out of the investigation.
Others
indicted include: Georgia lawyer Robert Cheeley, former campaign strategist
Michael Roman, chairman of the Georgia Republican Party David Shafer, publicist
Trevian Kutti, former Georgia elections supervisor Misty Hampton Hayes, the VP
of Black Conservative Federation Harrison William Prescott Floyd, Stephen Lee,
former Georgia GOP official Cathleen Alston Latham, Shawn Micah Tresher Still,
Scott Graham Hall, and Ray Stallings Smith III.
All of the
defendants face at least one count of violating the Georgia RICO Act—the
Racketeer Influenced And Corrupt Organizations Act.
Other
charges the defendants are facing include Solicitation of Violation of Oath by
a Public Officer; Conspiracy to Commit Impersonating a Public Officer;
Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree; Conspiracy to Commit False
Statements and Writings; Conspiracy to Commit Filing False Documents;
Conspiracy to Commit Forgery in the First Degree; Filing False Documents; and
Solicitation of Violation of Oath by a Public Officer.
Separately,
in his investigation into alleged election interference, Special Counsel Jack
Smith charged Trump with conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to
obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an
official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights. Trump has pleaded not
guilty to all charges.
In the
indictment, Smith describes six "co-conspirators," but those
co-conspirators have not yet been charged, and it is unclear if they will be.
John Eastman, Giuliani, Powell, Clark, and Chesebro have been identified as
co-conspirators. The sixth co-conspirator is unknown.
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