Coup Planner Eastman Claims To Be Victim Of 'Soviet Communist-Style Agenda'

[turbinetree]

By Cristina Cabrera December 7, 2021 9:40 a.m.

Former Trump legal adviser John Eastman, aka the attorney who tried to mastermind a coup to keep a president who definitively lost an election in power, is simply appalled by the House Jan. 6 select committee using its authority to get to the bottom of him trying to mastermind a coup.

Speaking to a sympathetic Tucker Carlson on Fox News Monday night, Eastman accused the committee of “shredding the entire Constitution” by sending subpoenas for his testimony and telecommunication records.

“This group that wants to advance a Soviet Communist-style agenda… we shouldn’t be surprised that they’re using Soviet Stalinist tactics to do it,” said Eastman, who wrote a blueprint on how Mike Pence could hijack the 2020 election certification process for Trump.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eastman-victim-soviet-communist-subpoena-investigation

I guess when you go to Federalist Society meetings they drink the kool aid.....they probably forgot or even came up with power points to not know what conspiracy is in law school to be a member....or it should be eliminated.....just lock his ass up..... and as for Carlson he is a danger to society....just ask him about Covid.....did he or did he not get a vaccine shot and did he tell his followers....

[JustAnotherGen]

1. This is Nazi Germany all over again

The Fascist commit the crimes, the Democratic Party gets blamed, the Federal Republic Falls - and the Fascists get away with it.

This is why we MUST start calling them Fascists.

[The Magistrate]

2. You Know, Sir, I Would Not Mind Seeing Stalinist Tactics Used In This Matter

Some months of being beaten and starved in a basement, questioned without sleep under bright lights, and then either a bullet in the head or transport in an unheated cattle car for a couple of thousand miles jammed so tight no one can do a thing but stand, and then doing twenty years digging canals on two thin plates of soup a day under supervision of people without the slightest interest in whether he lives or dies actually does seem appropriate....

[dalton99a]

8. +1.

[Ohioboy]

9. The fact that this idiot is free proves there are not Stalinist tactics being used against him

He needs to stop trying to destroy the country that is treating him so well.

[The Magistrate]

12. Exactly, Sir

Perhaps the modern way to phrase it would be:

Dude, do you even Ivan Denisovitch?

[Tommy Carcetti]

3. Speaking as someone whose relatives were actual victims of Soviet Communist Agendas...

...No.

[StClone]

10. My Father fought the Nazi's

My siblings think it is totally different. Trump is not Hitler (he's not), Americans are not ignorant of history (they are for the most part), and they are not easily swayed by propaganda (duh, you love Trump ipso facto).

So now they love Trump. Call him a kleptocrat, an oligarch, a xenophobe, a racist, even an authoritarian. But he doesn’t quite fit the definition of a fascist. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21521958/what-is-fascism-signs-donald-trump Doers that even matter.

Looking back in history and knowing the abhorrent suffering of your relatives, I post with solemnity.

[KPN]

4. Peak gaslighting. Expect to hear more and more of these extra-ultimate, nefarious

Machiavellian accusations in the days, weeks, months ahead. Democrats are now "Stalinists" on Fox News.

... Imagine that, the far right has stepped beyond the labels "tyrants", "fascists", "Nazis" in describing Democrats. Could that possibly mean they see Nazis in a better light?

[mwooldri]

5. Hmmm. I believe there is a not so secret operation at...

... Guantanamo Bay. The USSR made their dissidents "disappear". If Mr. Eastman was to complain of Soviet style tactics being used against him then the powers that be do have a location to "disappear" him to.

Until then he needs to IMO STFU lest he learns what actual Stalinist techniques are. The Jan 6th Commission is about as close to Stalinist tactics as we are to finding intelligent life on a distant planet.

[Ohioboy]

6. These traitors need enablers like Carlson

If they went on any other shows they might get someone that would point out that the Jan 6 committee is trying to stop a Soviet communist -style agenda- namely, the overturning of a legitimate election by a bunch of insurrectionists.

[Baked Potato]

7. Thanks for the heads up of your intent to advance a Soviet agenda, tool-bag. Nt

[TexasTowelie]

11. Issuing a subpoena to obtain information relevant to an investigation is not

shredding the Constitution and the lawyer is not only mistaken with that statement, but he is also an asshole for making that statement.

[Ka-Dinh Oy]

13. Wait!!!

He flipped. He was all for Soviet communist-style agenda when he was doing it to others.

Can't handle what he was dishing out?

[moondust]

14. Poor little Johnny.

Many people are saying the Jewish space lasers fried his brain.

The legal profession must be so proud of him. And the kraken lady. And Rudy. And...and...

[JHB]

15. That's a hoot, considering the only Party resembing the Soviets is the Republican Party

"Conservatism can never fail, it can only be failed."

[gratuitous]

16. Poke a Nazi, hear him squawk "Communism!"

Eastman knows that subpoenas are the legal, civilized way of doing things, but he's pretending they're some kind of underhanded "communist" tool that shreds the Constitution. I don't know where he's admitted to practice law, but the state bar really should take a look at his conduct as it brings the profession into disrepute when a lawyer spouts such un-legal things.

[Celerity]

18. +10000000000000000

Poke a Nazi, hear him squawk "Communism!"

[tanyev]

17. Well, Soviet Russia was a valuable ally when the scourge of fascism needed to be defeated.

[FakeNoose]

19. Well no, it wasn't exactly like that

The Stalinist Soviet bloc joined the Allies in defeating Germany, but it was only temporary. Don't forget that Stalin made his first deal with Hitler, and then Hitler screwed them. We (US and Britain) knew that Stalin could never be trusted as a full partner. Even the Germans knew it, and that's why they wanted to be defeated and occupied by us, not the Soviets.

The way things are today is so unlike the world chessboard of WWII that it hardly bears resemblance. Russia today is way more libertarian than we are in the US. The Repukes would like to be as libertarian as the Russians are, but that's not gonna happen as long as we have a Constitution and we continue to believe in rule by law.

Putin may stick around for a few more years (I'm guessing) but there are rumors that he's having health problems. If/when he goes out, my guess is the people of Russia are going to make sure another Putin never happens. The Russians of today are way more educated and world-politics-smart now than ever before. At least I hope they are. The internet has created the illusion of an almost level playing field.

[tanyev]

20. I know I oversimplified it, but it would have been much harder to defeat

Hitler’s Germany without the Soviets. That’s valuable. And it is the height of hypocrisy for people following the fascist playbook with a leader obsequious to Putin to whine about “Stalinist tactics”.

[FakeNoose]

21. Agreed

It bothers me when people on DU conflate fascism (of Nazi Germany) with communism (of Stalinist Soviet Union) when they had almost nothing in common politically.

Except there was one thing they did have in common: they were both run by autocrats.