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Botany

(72,819 posts)
Tue Jun 20, 2023, 10:48 AM Jun 2023

Judge says Trump and ally Eastman launched Jan. 6 "coup in search of a legal theory"

Eastman needs to loose his license and both he and Trump should end up in prison.

From March of 2022:
Why it matters: Judge David Carter wrote that Eastman and Trump "launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history."

The select committee sought documents from Eastman that it believed would help show that Trump and his allies "engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States," according to previous court filings for this case.

Eastman, who helped Trump during the final weeks of his presidency to develop a strategy to pressure former Vice President Mike Pence into overturning the results of the 2020 election, refused to turn over documents to the select committee, claiming that they were protected by attorney-client privilege.

Judge Carter determined that ten documents were privileged but the rest must be turned over to investigators.

"Based on the evidence, the Court finds it more likely than not that President Trump corruptly attempted to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress on January 6, 2021," Carter wrote.

https://www.axios.com/2022/03/28/judge-trump-eastman-documents-jan-6-committee

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From Wiki:
Education and military service
In college he lettered in cross country and track on the teams of Jim Bush. Carter received his Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude in 1967 and his Juris Doctor in 1972 from the University of California, Los Angeles and UCLA School of Law, respectively. After graduating from college, Carter accepted a commission in the United States Marine Corps. He served in the Vietnam War where he fought in the Battle of Khe Sanh, receiving a Bronze Star for valor in 1968. He was medically discharged as a First Lieutenant after receiving a Purple Heart.

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Judge says Trump and ally Eastman launched Jan. 6 "coup in search of a legal theory" (Original Post) Botany Jun 2023 OP
And trump was being protected. republianmushroom Jun 2023 #1
While trump faked bone spurs. Beachnutt Jun 2023 #2
while Kushner ripped off masks from VA and resold them back at 500% markup. GreenWave Jun 2023 #3
18 tons of PPE Kush-turd shipped to China in late Botany Jun 2023 #6
I really wish the media would stop calling him president!! Either X president, former president PortTack Jun 2023 #4
K&R!! onetexan Jun 2023 #5
Everyone that supports Trump loses everything! Obvious85 Jun 2023 #7

Botany

(72,819 posts)
6. 18 tons of PPE Kush-turd shipped to China in late
Tue Jun 20, 2023, 01:19 PM
Jun 2023

Winter 2020 because he and TFG owed China millions.
And that killed or sickened Drs, nurses, and lots of other people... they were wearing garbage bags and Jared was
shipping what the needed to protect themselves to China.

PortTack

(34,990 posts)
4. I really wish the media would stop calling him president!! Either X president, former president
Tue Jun 20, 2023, 12:57 PM
Jun 2023

Seriously!!

Obvious85

(262 posts)
7. Everyone that supports Trump loses everything!
Tue Jun 20, 2023, 01:50 PM
Jun 2023

How many law licenses have been lost or on the verge of being lost , Fox thus far losing 800 million (more to come)

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