John Eastman Loses Bid To Hold Up Records He Warns Could Convict Trump

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The right-wing attorney who authored “coup memos” for Donald Trump and supporters on how to scuttle the presidential election lost a court battle Friday to hold back his documents from the House select committee investigating last year’s Jan. 6 insurrection.

Lawyer John Eastman claimed the situation had turned him into a “pseudo-defense attorney for the former president” — so the emails are thereby protected by attorney-client privilege.

Eastman warned in his civil suit that granting the committee access to his emails involving the former president could amount to a historic legal finding that Trump may have committed a crime while he was a sitting president.

“Were this Court to sustain the defendants’ claims, it may be the first formal finding of Presidential criminality by a federal court in United States history,” Eastman wrote in his suit seeking to hold up access to his records.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/coup-memo-lawyer-loses-bid-042836055.html

[Walleye]

1. There is no pseudo-attorney-client privilege.

[getagrip_already]

4. also no retroactive privilege......

If he wasn't tfg's atty at the time the communications took place, he can't claim they were privileged much later on, when he still has no status as tfg's atty..

[Lucky Luciano]

28. The former guy...

In reading your comment, I decided that I will mentally refer to TFG as “that fucking guy.”

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. There IS pseudo-attorney-client privilege

It is the made-up relationship that any lawyer in the tRump debacle grabs onto in a desperate hope to slip away.

"pseudo" is the key word here. A synonym for "fake".

[Walleye]

14. Did he go to pseudo law school or pass the pseudo bar exam

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Well, anyway, tRump is a pseudo-client because he doesn't pay his bills. . . . nt

[Walleye]

19. Correct, I forgot about that

I remember in Perry Mason he always make them pay a retainer so he could officially be their attorney

[agingdem]

17. he meant psycho attorney/psycho client privilege...

Eastman is screwed and he knows it...talk about "hoist with one's own petard"!!!

[Walleye]

30. They were all so sure their crimes would be pardoned in trumps second term

[tclambert]

27. To establish the pseudo-attorney-client privilege, you have to pay in crypto-currency.

[Walleye]

29. 😂

[SoCalDavidS]

2. So, How Many More Times Can He Appeal?

I'm finally able to comprehend that when these Assholes lose court cases, it means little, because they simply appeal, and kick the can down the road for a few more months. And they seem to like appealing all the way to the Supreme Court these days, because, why not?

So rather than ask a stupid question like, "when will he be turning those records over," I have to ask, how many more courts will have to hear this case before there's even a chance the records will be given up?

[Karadeniz]

3. We're SHOCKED that a pseudo attorney couldn't claim privilege and a judge would rule that

incriminating evidence can not be suppressed. What is this world coming to?

[lame54]

5. Smoking gun privilege

[intrepidity]

6. Why would an attorney include such a statement?

“Were this Court to sustain the defendants’ claims, it may be the first formal finding of Presidential criminality by a federal court in United States history,” Eastman wrote in his suit seeking to hold up access to his records.

Did he think saying that would actually be *helpful* to his case? Or does he secretly (openly?) hate TFG?

Or am I misreading something?

[Shrike47]

12. I was wondering, too. Is that supposed to be a bad thing?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. It could be virtue signalling to court: "I gotta try to protect my client but I don't want to try

"I gotta try to protect my pseudo-client and make him think I'm protecting him but I don't want to try too hard, because you really need to see this shit."

[LastDemocratInSC]

20. TFG and Eastman have been winging this all along.

Their plans had no legal or common sense basis and the statement you highlighted shows that they have backed themselves into a corner where their only moves now are a collection of compounded absurdities.

It's the same as when my grandson and I would play games together when he was quite young - he didn't like losing and when things went bad for him he would start making up new rules to advantage himself.

[Maeve]

21. Alternatively, does it mean he hasn't the brains God gave geese?

[Fullduplexxx]

7. Oh well on to the next bullsht stretch-it-out lawsuit or appeal or whatever

[MarineCombatEngineer]

8. What a ridiculous, asinine argument,

he's basically saying that because the e-mails would probably confirm that the Mango Menace committed crimes while in office, they shouldn't be released for fear of prosecution.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Eastman is a really bad attorney

The motion he filed to block access was really dumb

[Chainfire]

10. Ok, so he has protected his law license with his appeal,

not it is time, in legal terminology, to spill his guts about the crimes Trump "May Have" committed.

[Beetwasher.]

11. Signal Flare To Trump

“Were this Court to sustain the defendants’ claims, it may be the first formal finding of Presidential criminality by a federal court in United States history,” Eastman wrote in his suit seeking to hold up access to his records.

[intrepidity]

22. Do you think this was his way to alert TFG?

Next thing is for TFG to use it as his next campaign slogan: "Vote for me, or else I may go to prison!"

[Beetwasher.]

24. Maybe, Sending a Signal About What the Committee is About To Get

[Disaffected]

25. That's not as far fetched as it may sound.

or "You don't want your Favorite President going to jail do you??"

A lot of MAGATs would buy it....

[Qutzupalotl]

16. Sounds pseudo-legit.

[Me.]

23. D'uh. That Is The Point For Obtaining THe Records/

“Were this Court to sustain the defendants’ claims, it may be the first formal finding of Presidential criminality by a federal court in United States history,” Eastman wrote in his suit seeking to hold up access to his records"

[intrepidity]

26. "...it may be the first formal finding..."

The word "formal" should be emphasized, lol.

[XacerbatedDem]

31. Well, I'm all for sustaining the defendants' claims then.

No blotard is above the law.