The Great America Show - April 09, 2024


EASTMAN: FIGHTING FOR OUR FREEDOM


Episode Stats

Length

25 minutes

Words per Minute

154.95425

Word Count

3,980

Sentence Count

278

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary

John Eastman is in the midst of a lawfare assault on honest attorneys, judges, and prosecutors in America. We re talking to John about what has been a ruling in California that is effectively a disbarment, but nonetheless, he has the right of appeal.


Transcript

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00:00:33.760 I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to The Great America Show.
00:00:36.960 Thanks for being with us today.
00:00:38.480 We're talking with John Eastman.
00:00:40.180 He is in the midst of the lawfare assault on honest attorneys, judges, and prosecutors.
00:00:51.160 If indeed there are any remaining in the country, it's hard to tell right now.
00:00:56.780 Certainly they're not in D.C. in great prominence.
00:01:00.880 We're talking to John about what has been a ruling in California that is effectively a disbarment.
00:01:07.020 He has the right of appeal, but nonetheless, what the state of California is doing is being done in jurisdictions, if you can call them that,
00:01:18.080 in blue centers all over the country where the Democrat Party, the Marxist Dems, are in charge of the judges, the prosecutors.
00:01:28.460 It is absolutely a moment that will live for a long time in our history in this country because of the inequity, the outright corruption.
00:01:42.920 We're delighted to welcome to the show John Eastman.
00:01:47.000 And John, thanks for being with us here, especially given everything that you're going through right now.
00:01:53.220 So, you know, God bless you.
00:01:56.420 And we're praying for you and for the republic, by the way.
00:02:00.500 Your thoughts as we sit down here today and as we begin.
00:02:05.060 Well, Lou, let me let me first say back before Christmas, the L.A.
00:02:10.060 Times wanted to do a feature story on me, a human interest story about how devastated I was and how it's destroying my family, all that.
00:02:17.120 I said, I don't know where you're getting that.
00:02:19.180 We're in the middle of a fight of our lifetime to decide whether freedom is going to survive in this country or not.
00:02:26.160 And for whatever reason, I've been cast in a leading role on the front lines of that fight.
00:02:30.020 I can't imagine anything more important for me to be doing.
00:02:33.460 And it's precisely because I've got the academic and political credentials, the legal credentials to fight against this, perhaps as well as anybody in the country, that they're going after me so hard.
00:02:45.160 So it's a little bit like my old professor said, if you're not catching incoming flack, you're not over the target.
00:02:50.640 I guess I'm not only right over the target, but I've got weapons that they're very afraid of.
00:02:55.280 And that's the truth.
00:02:56.740 Well, the truth in this instance has been ignored for what is now nine years when it comes to President Trump and the political persecution of a presidential candidate, a president, and then a former president.
00:03:13.380 We are in the ninth year of that political persecution.
00:03:16.520 We started out with the Russian hoax in various forms.
00:03:20.280 It was dismissed.
00:03:21.720 It has been it's been codified.
00:03:24.300 It has been firmly established.
00:03:26.740 That all of that was nothing more than a conspiracy against the president of the United States carried out by the deep state, the Marxist Dems, the Democratic National Committee and League with the Clinton campaign.
00:03:42.060 You know all of it.
00:03:43.020 You lived it.
00:03:44.540 And yet here we are.
00:03:45.780 And the national left wing media, the corporate media, the legacy media, they still haven't got the guts to acknowledge the truth.
00:03:52.920 The Washington Post and the Washington Post and the New York Times are still clutching those Pulitzers that they won for lying through their teeth.
00:03:59.920 It was it was the greatest political scandal in our nation's history.
00:04:03.240 Hillary Clinton laundered money through her law firm to pay for a phony dossier that was then used by our government to obtain a FISA warrant on the opposing political campaign.
00:04:15.180 They they they did that.
00:04:17.240 They spied on him while he was a candidate.
00:04:18.920 They continued to spy on him while after he was elected and they continued to spy on him after he was inaugurated and became their boss.
00:04:27.400 Biggest political scandal in our nation's history.
00:04:29.640 And they doctored evidence in order to get that FISA warrant.
00:04:33.060 And none of them have paid any consequence at all for that, except for a slight slight slap on the hand by the guy that actually doctored the evidence.
00:04:42.900 But the rest of them are off scat free.
00:04:46.060 This this is a scandal of monumental proportions.
00:04:48.760 And anyone that is trying to talk about it or talk about the subsequent scandal of the illegality in the 2020 election, they're the ones that are going that people are going after like me.
00:04:59.120 And, you know, there's an old an old ad in English common law of seditious libel is called if you criticize the government, you could be prosecuted.
00:05:08.780 And truth was not a defense, because if what you were saying about the government was true, that was more harmful.
00:05:14.680 The old the old line was the greater the truth, the greater the libel.
00:05:18.460 Our First Amendment was written in large part to prevent that.
00:05:22.340 And yet that's what we have readopted.
00:05:24.100 It is without question.
00:05:26.240 I mean, it is it is absolutely apt.
00:05:29.880 It is four square on this issue.
00:05:32.840 And and because of all that you've done, done for President Trump, defending President Trump and speaking out in the moment in which history will be written for for years.
00:05:45.920 You are the enemy of the People's Republic of California.
00:05:52.080 I mean, it's how can those attorneys, whether they're serving as judges, whether they're serving as prosecutors, part of the bar association, whatever, they're they're filthy liars.
00:06:03.720 They're corrupt.
00:06:04.740 How can they look themselves in the face?
00:06:07.300 I don't care about their zealotry, their zeal for their ideological Marxism.
00:06:15.160 But this is madness.
00:06:16.920 Sheer madness.
00:06:18.040 It's insane.
00:06:18.700 They gave me an investigatory letter, which after the complaint had been filed against me.
00:06:24.500 And it said, you have no evidence of any of the things you said.
00:06:27.440 You know, give us every bit of evidence you have for every speech you made, for every media interview you did, for every line and every brief you filed.
00:06:34.840 And I did. I gave them tens of thousands of pages of documents supporting and they filed the charges anyway.
00:06:41.320 And then we went through the most expensive and longest bar disciplinary proceeding in history.
00:06:45.520 Lasted over 10 weeks, cost me upwards of three quarters of a million dollars.
00:06:49.560 But it was the first time that the evidence had actually been placed in a court record.
00:06:55.540 And then they ignore it.
00:06:56.820 And they doctored, by the way, the attorneys going against me, doctored a quotation from a court decision to make the decision appear as if it said something dealing with the Electoral Count Act's constitutionality.
00:07:10.260 This was a critical part of my legal analysis.
00:07:13.200 And they said the court the day before I was making these claims, the court had already ruled the Electoral Count Act was constitutional.
00:07:19.720 They doctored that quotation.
00:07:21.160 It did not say the Electoral Count Act.
00:07:23.080 That was not even at issue in the case.
00:07:25.020 It was state statutes delegating authority to governors to certify elections.
00:07:30.040 And they doctored it and they submitted it to the court in a in a formal pleading, an overt misrepresentation of the court.
00:07:36.920 The very kind of thing they are falsely accusing me of having done.
00:07:40.680 And they do it right there.
00:07:42.040 And instead of chastising them or calling them out on it, the judge repeats the doctored quotation in the opinion.
00:07:48.560 Did you point that out to her, that she was not only was she dealing with a doctored quotation citation, she was also repeating the lie.
00:08:02.580 We pointed out the doctored quotation in a filing.
00:08:05.900 We have not yet had a chance to point out to the appellate court that she then repeated the doctored quotation.
00:08:12.000 But that will come in short order.
00:08:14.820 The Bar Association has to know what a calamity this decision to persecute you is.
00:08:23.100 They have to understand that if they have anything resembling an IQ.
00:08:29.640 Well, even even lawyers on the left side of the aisle have been contacting my my attorneys expressing outrage for for two things.
00:08:39.120 One, the fact that this case was brought at all.
00:08:41.420 This is a very serious threat to the rule of law and the ability of controversial clients, controversial in the minds of the elite, that is, to have actual representation.
00:08:51.100 But more importantly, they spent millions of dollars bringing this prosecution against me.
00:08:57.060 And now they're petitioning to raise their fees because they need more money.
00:09:00.660 So people are pretty angry about that as well.
00:09:03.800 I think they would call that lawyerly injustice.
00:09:09.380 We'll see if they're quick to right their wrongs.
00:09:13.000 We're talking with John Eastman, great American.
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00:10:53.080 We're back now with John Eastman who faces extraordinary evil forces, I'll put it that way, in the state of California, seeking to disbar him, to remove his livelihood, and to deny him due process in any fashion, resembling something that should be fundamental to the American way of life and our judicial system.
00:11:22.300 It is the opposite.
00:11:23.960 This looks like the Soviet judicial system circa 1982, just to pick a year.
00:11:31.580 I mean, John, the frustration, aside from the grievances that you have in terms of money and your time, this has got to be almost beyond your own belief that you're going through this.
00:11:47.040 It is certainly surreal.
00:11:48.200 You know, lawyers have an ethical obligation to zealously represent the entrance of their client.
00:11:56.640 We have an ethical obligation to pursue every lawful avenue.
00:12:02.300 And, you know, you look at Thurgood Marshall, for example, when he pursued getting rid of separate but equal segregation in public schools.
00:12:09.820 That was contrary to longstanding, controlling Supreme Court precedent.
00:12:16.300 But the standard for lawyers is to push back against even bad precedent if you think you've got a reasonable or colorful argument to be made for changing the law.
00:12:26.380 The things I was advising on, there was no law interpreting the constitutional provisions we were dealing with.
00:12:33.000 So it wasn't like I was seeking to overturn something.
00:12:35.440 I was giving an interpretation of the Constitution that I remain of the view was correct.
00:12:40.560 But it was certainly an open question.
00:12:42.460 And it would have been unethical for me not to pursue those avenues on behalf of my client.
00:12:47.140 So for doing that, I'm now being charged with, what's the phrase they like to use, moral turpitude.
00:12:55.420 I mean, it's just stunning.
00:12:58.680 That sounds like it could cover a lot of ground, doesn't it?
00:13:01.100 Well, it certainly covers the conduct of the people that are bringing these charges against me.
00:13:05.180 But the problem is, they don't fear the shoe ever being on the other foot.
00:13:11.740 And that means you can abuse power without consequence.
00:13:15.140 And that's a huge problem for the ongoing rule of law in this country.
00:13:19.500 You know, I see people right now in the Republican Party wrestling with sort of like responses to the evil that has been done by the Marxist Dems Party.
00:13:35.140 Whether it is Mark Elias and his lawsuits and all of the stratagems that he's pursued that some would say were just outrageously corrupt and utterly wrong.
00:13:50.480 But whatever you think of him, he's been effective.
00:13:53.760 Now we see the Republicans arguing over early voting.
00:13:57.860 And we know that that goes beyond what was envisioned by the Constitution.
00:14:02.720 It goes beyond anything that I'm aware of that's codified in state election law, or at least up until COVID-19, certainly.
00:14:14.880 We are, and the Republican Party means to go out and get as many early votes as they can because it is the battleground upon which they find themselves fighting.
00:14:26.260 I see it as just wrong.
00:14:28.800 Why not move to the right?
00:14:30.780 And by that I mean go to the law and let it prevail, because therein lies our ultimate protection, whether we're Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative.
00:14:44.060 The Constitution actually requires election day, not election month or election month and a half.
00:14:49.840 This notion that we can have early voting, we can have mail-in voting, we can have people without any of the guardrail checks on fraud, you know, just gathering as many ballots as they can.
00:15:02.240 All of that throws out the window, the notion that the end result actually reflects the consent of the governed.
00:15:10.020 This is bigger than just losing or winning a single election.
00:15:13.800 This is about whether we're going to remain a Republican form of government rooted in the consent of the governed.
00:15:19.380 Because if we don't control our elections, if they are not fair, if they're not honest, we cease to be citizens in a free republic and we become serfs, slaves in an increasingly tyrannical government.
00:15:33.060 These are the stakes.
00:15:34.880 You know, people say, why don't you just give up and, you know, they'll leave you alone.
00:15:40.060 You know, I'm not going to hand a tyrannical government or my kids and grandkids have to live under.
00:15:45.760 I happen to have been cast in this role on the forefront to be able to fight against it.
00:15:50.520 And I'm going to fight against it.
00:15:51.700 This is this is the fight for our time and for our freedom.
00:15:56.020 And anybody that doesn't understand that, get out of the way so the rest of us can engage in this fight.
00:16:01.160 Yeah, I can agree with you more.
00:16:02.760 And unfortunately, we have to say that to the Republican National Committee that has decided to advance early voting and to take the battle to the streets rather than to the courts.
00:16:14.260 And I have to say, I am very disappointed in Laura Trump, the co-chair.
00:16:21.760 The new leadership of the RNC is making a tremendous mistake because those of us who love this country, who are America first, we are MAGA to the bone and we support Donald Trump.
00:16:37.760 I can't support an unconstitutional act like early voting, whether it comes from the RNC or the DNC.
00:16:45.260 Well, and the other thing they forget is it's not just early voting, it's early fraudulent voting that the Democrats engaged in.
00:16:52.900 And, you know, in 2018 in North Carolina, a former Democrat operative was hired by a Republican and he engaged in illegal ballot harvesting.
00:17:01.340 And so it's now the Republican did it and he was prosecuted and the and the candidate had to withdraw.
00:17:06.200 So so so if if we engage in it in the way they do, which is illegally, our guys will be prosecuted.
00:17:16.540 John Eastman and he's getting a sip of water.
00:17:19.160 And while he's doing so, we're going to take a quick break.
00:17:21.500 We'll be right back, folks.
00:17:22.640 Stay with us.
00:17:25.260 Lou Dobbs here.
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00:18:01.240 We're back now with John Eastman.
00:18:03.320 And John, I have to say, I don't think people understand the the conflicts here and the and the battle that's being waged within the Republican Party itself.
00:18:14.660 Because the issue of I mean, one ballot, one one approach to voting.
00:18:23.440 That's all we got one day voting.
00:18:26.000 The Constitution so says we have allowed it to be sullied and torn to pieces during covid.
00:18:35.340 That it was a huge mistake.
00:18:36.760 We're now replicating it in the Republican Party, it seems to me.
00:18:40.840 Your thoughts.
00:18:41.680 Well, when when we supervise the election in Iraq.
00:18:47.120 People came in on a day.
00:18:48.860 They voted.
00:18:50.100 They were put an indelible ink on their thumb so they couldn't come back later and vote again.
00:18:54.340 We don't have anything remotely like those checks.
00:18:58.220 We don't even in most places check your I.D. to make sure the person you're claiming is actually the person counting the ballot.
00:19:05.840 In Wisconsin in 2020, they have a law that says you have to have a witness who knows you that signs under oath that the person submitting the ballot is the person they claim they are.
00:19:15.700 And you have to put in your name and address if you're the witness under oath.
00:19:19.200 That wasn't done in thousands of ballots.
00:19:21.820 And the county clerks were directed to Google the names and try and doctor the evidence and put in ballots.
00:19:28.880 I mean, that was a check against fraud that they just blew through.
00:19:33.280 This this has been happening for far too long.
00:19:35.800 And we will lose our ability to control the direction of our government if we don't get a handle on it.
00:19:41.040 John, do you believe that we can get this corrected in time for the 2024 election?
00:19:46.560 And because the RNC seems hell bent on doing it.
00:19:51.640 And I I wish that every Republican would tell they go call into the RNC, their congressional delegations and tell them, hell, no, we're not going down that path.
00:20:02.400 Come come whatever may.
00:20:04.600 Yeah, no, you've but but you've got to do it on both sides.
00:20:07.060 You can't let one side do ballot harvesting and the other side.
00:20:10.280 You've got it. You've got it.
00:20:11.440 I don't I don't think there's time or the spine in the state legislatures to fix this problem before 2024, partly because we've got too many Republicans in name only in those state legislators that would rather have the Democrats reelected and destroy the country than have Trump reelected.
00:20:29.520 And until those people get over their mean tweet problems with Trump, we're not going to make any headway into correcting illegality in elections.
00:20:38.800 You know, the mean tweet thing, the superior view of Trump is is these Lilliputians are condescend to the giant of our time politically is hilarious to watch.
00:20:56.220 They're rationalizing their own existence as well as their their thought processes.
00:21:00.600 And we really need to move beyond them.
00:21:04.380 And the rhinos that make up most of it seems to me most of the Republican Party, and at least as it's represented in Washington, D.C., that they are creating as much damage, tearing asunder this country with this very similar energy to that of the Marxist Dems.
00:21:24.880 And their intent to destroy everything that is the American way.
00:21:31.220 But but but but, Lou, they're the smartest people in the room.
00:21:34.360 Just ask them.
00:21:35.760 And they can't imagine that anybody came into office without consulting them.
00:21:40.600 And so, therefore, the people that came into office must not know what they're doing, because we didn't ask the likes of Bill Kristol for his advice.
00:21:47.520 Look, this is a problem.
00:21:49.700 They do not understand the dynamic of the war, literally war that we were in internally in this country and and and and in either sitting on the sidelines or in joining forces with the left in order to stop this MAGA movement, the outgrowth of the Tea Party movement.
00:22:08.720 I mean, it was the Republicans in Washington that saw the Tea Party rather than the Marxist takeover, the Democrat Party as the bigger threat to this country.
00:22:17.320 And and, you know, and and they know they don't they don't run the party anymore.
00:22:21.560 Ninety percent of the rank and file of this party are not with those idiots that claim to be leaders.
00:22:26.800 And their their claim their handle on power is about to end.
00:22:30.420 And they're and they're reacting very badly.
00:22:32.940 Yeah, there is obviously you can see a really an upwelling of remorse already that we will lose the services of Mitt Romney in January of 2025.
00:22:47.400 John, I want to just say that I think that you talk about the war, you're you're on the point right now and we are wishing you all of the best in in your endeavors to overcome what is totalitarianism, an expression of ignorance on the part of the California Bar Association.
00:23:09.800 I can't imagine why any self-respecting, talented attorney in the state of California is not ashamed of their bar association and of their profession right now in the state of California.
00:23:23.200 I'm going to you get to put forward your concluding thoughts today.
00:23:27.580 We appreciate you being with us and God bless you.
00:23:30.620 Thank you very much.
00:23:31.420 And, you know, people should go to my Web site, give send go dot com slash Eastman.
00:23:36.180 And I've posted updates there that people can also donate to help or send prayers.
00:23:41.260 I also use it as a site to post updates.
00:23:43.820 And the latest update has a link to articles by my kids and by my wife that are just worth worth reading so that they can understand what the truth of what's going on is.
00:23:55.240 And I encourage people to do that.
00:23:57.220 But we'll not only make that point here on The Great America Show, we'll do it on television.
00:24:02.820 We'll do it on all our the platforms we're blessed to be on, but we'll also be spreading it all over social media as well.
00:24:13.520 Yours is a battle that's so important.
00:24:15.580 And thanks for making sure that we're being informed as you take every day in stride and move toward, we hope, imminent victory over these louts.
00:24:29.140 I'll just leave it at that.
00:24:30.660 It was a nice word I could come up with on short notice.
00:24:34.420 John Eastman, thanks so much.
00:24:35.860 Great American.
00:24:36.220 Thanks very much, Lou.
00:24:37.000 Take care.
00:24:37.880 Thank you.
00:24:40.960 John Eastman, he is a great American.
00:24:43.060 He is in a battle for his livelihood, for his country, and for ours.
00:24:49.020 It is truly that important that he prevail against the corrupt, the politically corrupt California Bar Association.
00:24:59.060 You cannot imagine the lawfare that is going on against so many attorneys who have defended Donald Trump, who are defending the conservative tenants, who are defending this great nation.
00:25:14.000 So understand, we're in a battle that we have to win.
00:25:17.560 And by the way, that includes right up to and through and beyond November 5th.
00:25:22.060 What is that we call it?
00:25:24.500 Oh, yes, it's Election Day.
00:25:25.980 But Donald Trump has also called it Christian Visibility Day.
00:25:30.300 And that works for me, I hope, for you as well.
00:25:32.980 Thanks so much for being with us.
00:25:35.160 God bless you.
00:25:35.760 God bless you.
00:25:39.700 God bless you.