Former Trump attorney John Eastman defended his conduct around the 2020 presidential election in an interview ahead of his arraignment.
Eastman is one of 19 defendants, including former President Donald Trump, indicted on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election. In an interview with Fox News Host Laura Ingraham that aired Tuesday, Eastman defended his conduct and challenged prosecutors to find any wrongdoing on his part.
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“I have been speaking out all along,” Eastman said.
“We did nothing wrong,” he added. “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. 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 also tied his case to a wider struggle against government overreach.
“I’m an attorney. And, you know, the people that I was representing had a right to counsel,” he continued. “And what’s going on here with the bar complaints against everybody involved in any of the litigation, this Fulton County complaint … they’re are trying to stifle people from getting representation in election challenges. They made that very clear what they are up to, and we can’t allow it to happen.”
Eastman also hit back against the prosecution’s argument that attorney-client privilege could be pierced due to a reasonable possibility that a crime had been committed.
“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,” he retorted.
Eastman also hit back against the allegation that he and his co-defendants knew what they were saying was false and baseless but sought to overturn the election anyway.
“They got all my emails,” he said. “My phone was seized over a year ago. They have got all that stuff as well. I challenge them to find a single email or communication that supports that implausible theory.”
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The interview fell in line with previous statements in which he defended himself against all wrongdoing.
“My legal team and I will vigorously contest every count of the indictment in which I am named, and also every count in which others are named, for which my knowledge of the relevant facts, law, and constitutional provisions may prove helpful,” Eastman said in a statement last week. “I am confident that, when the law is faithfully applied in this proceeding, all of my co-defendants and I will be fully vindicated.”
