It Just Got Worse—Again—for Donald Trump: A judge has preliminarily found coup-plotter John Eastman culpable of trying to overturn the 2020 election results. Will he be the next MAGA minion to flip?

by thenewrepublic

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  1. Trump’s New York fraud trial could cost the family $250 million. But his other cases are likely to cost Donald Trump a lot more: the White House. His future. His freedom.

  5. He (most likely) still believes he’s above the law, untouchable

  6. I still have no expectation whatsoever that Trump will face real consequences, but I’m increasingly thinking that I’m being overly pessimistic on that and that I’ll end up being surprised in the end

  7. It doesn’t matter if Eastman and Meadows flip unless Trump is disbarred from running for POTUS in 2024 or faces more than legal penalties in Courtrooms, and so far, he’s both free to do so and +0.7 on Biden in the RCP poll average at 44.8 to 44.1 for Biden right now. He needs hard consequences, period, I hope this is part of a systematic effort to topple each domino in his fortress until it goes for the big “guns” here slowly.

  8. >Trump is a cornered animal. As the walls close in, he is going to go insane. Nothing in his pampered life has prepared him for the reckoning that’s coming his way. He’s gotten out of everything, from the Vietnam draft to all the bankruptcies, to the impeachments, when he obviously committed high crimes and misdemeanors. His skating days are over.

    We can only hope.

  9. As far as I know, this guy wasn’t even employed by the campaign and didn’t get paid for throwing away what’s left of his career.

    The last few years of the Trump administration were a revolving door of grifters and cranks who were so happy to have the ear of a president to advance their insane foreign policy legal theories that they worked for free in many cases (or thought they were getting paid).

  11. The best we can hope for is house arrest for Trump. I can’t imagine a scenario where an ex-president is actually put in prison considering the fact that he has secret service agents with him at all times.

  12. Don’t cut a deal with Eastman, he’s treasonous filth that belongs in jail!

  13. When they’ve all turned states evidence to lessen their sentences, when they’re all guilty and in jail, Donald Trump walks into a courtroom (again) to face the charges. They will all point to him and say, “He was our leader” and what does Trump say?

    Who are these people? I’ve never met them before.

    It wasn’t me. It was them who made the plan. I just signed it.

    Why isn’t Hillary Clinton here? It was her idea.

  14. His base will vote for him no matter what happens to him, if he’s in jail, if he killed one of his supporters on TV, they will all still vote R.

  16. We should thank Trump for trying to delay things. More kindling for the fire the longer we wait.

  17. There are so many cases against Trump, I’m starting to get lost when I see headlines like this. Which is great. I can’t imagine how infuriating it must be for a malignant narcissist

  18. This title is fairly misleading. This is not about any court case to which Trump is party. It’s a CA bar proceeding. Bit of a stretch imo to say or think this has much relevance to Trump’s legal peril.

  19. All these airtight cases against Trump, and he still has a coin flip chance at the presidency. America is in trouble.

  20. I’m sick of hearing about all of the things that COULD happen to him.

    How about actually holding him accountable for something?

  22. I can’t open that article because it’s ad blocker blocked, but I’ve been following the Eastman case.

    In his California disbarment case, Eastman
    admits Trump was not his client, so he doesn’t use representation to justify anything he did.
    Eastman’s defense is that he believed without evidence that there was fraud, and because this is what he believed, all of his actions are justified, including ignoring contrary evidence, persuading sworn officers of the United States to violate their oaths of office, and doing nothing to intervene in the face of thousands of people intent on committing crimes because they shared the same belief he did.

    In other words, pure zealous idolatry, outright fascist might makes right ideology … as his legal defense for why he should continue practicing law.

    Before this started, John Eastman was a professor of… I’m not kidding… Constitutional Law.

  23. Fuck that. Eastman needs to go to prison. There should be no deal for him where he does anything less than 10 years. And that’s generous for if he gives good info.

  24. He’s a con artist who tried one con too many. And when con artists do that, they fall. I remember my father, the retired attorney, told me when Trump got elected that he would eventually be put in prison. He explained how Trump had been a criminal all his life in the world of real estate, where people get away with a lot. But he made a huge mistake running for (and winning) the highest public office in the land. Because now his criminality would be exposed. And he would go down hard. And here we are.

  26. I hope the prosecutor doesn’t offer Eastman anything. More people need to do jail time than just Trump otherwise it is a failure of the justice system.

  27. OMG! Really? *surprised pikachu*

    I feel like these articles have had their time in the limelight now.
    Trump this… Trump that… Slammed, Caught saying alternative facts, stormed out of court, insulted by judge, someone wrote a book and revealed blah… enough!

    Wake me up when there are consequences and not just articles. As of last 3-4 years, it just seems all a man has to do is be rich and he can do what he wants, where he wants, when he wants, without any fear of consequence!

    USA is weird!

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