Eastman to produce 10,000 pages of Trump-related emails as broader legal fight looms

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Politico

LEGAL

Eastman to produce 10,000 pages of Trump-related emails as broader legal fight looms

Obtaining the attorney's records has been a top priority for the committee probing the events of Jan. 6.

By KYLE CHENEY

04/30/2022 07:51 AM EDT

Attorney John Eastman, a key architect of former President Donald Trump’s legal effort to overturn the 2020 election, is preparing to provide another 10,000 pages of records to the Jan. 6 select committee, his attorney revealed late Friday. (1)

It’s the latest breakthrough for congressional investigators in their ongoing fight to obtain details of Trump’s last-ditch plans to overturn his election loss.

Eastman had claimed attorney-client privilege over 37,000 pages of post-election emails related to his work for Trump. But under pressure from U.S. District Court Judge David Carter — who ruled in March that Eastman and Trump likely entered into a criminal conspiracy to overturn the election — Eastman withdrew privilege claims for nearly a third of that total.

In Friday’s court filing, Eastman’s lawyers indicated that the select committee now wants more time to consider how to handle the remaining 27,000 pages of records that remain in dispute. Carter has asked Eastman to produce a log of all the emails that remain contested, but Eastman is now asking Carter for a brief reprieve while the select committee reviews the new documents and determines how to proceed.

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(1) https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.841840/gov.uscourts.cacd.841840.335.0.pdf

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/30/eastman-trump-related-emails-00029141

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Hat tip, Joe.My.God.

Eastman To Turn Over 10,000 Pages Of Trump Emails
April 30, 2022

https://www.joemygod.com/2022/04/eastman-to-turn-over-10000-pages-of-trump-emails/

[Botany]

1. So much for standing strong to protect TFG

[usaf-vet]

19. Or is it part of an organized delay scheme, and it's Eastmans turn to delay the J-6 committee work?

[gab13by13]

2. Disgusting, DOJ should be doing this.

[agingdem]

3. we don't know what the DOJ is doing...unlike Barr's DOJ

Garland's DOJ doesn't leak and all investigations are done under a shroud of secrecy as they should be...

[gab13by13]

5. I agree DOJ doesn't leak,

but the information gets out other ways. If DOJ subpoenaed those emails from Eastman the select committee would have no need to do the same.

If fake electors were being called before a grand jury believe me, we would know about it, the fake electors would let us know.

[wnylib]

15. Eastman and FBI director Wray are both Federalists.

[Beastly Boy]

7. What difference does it make who s doing this? And what's so disgusting with

one or the other doing it?

I would humbly speculate that whoever has more leverage in obtaining the info should be doing it. And the Committee appears damn good in doing it. Then again, I may be wrong, and DOJ, having many more legal restrains on their authority to obtain documents like these should be doing it instead, and risk getting jack shit or getting bogged down in appeals. Then we can get disgusted with DOJ for doing nothing.

[gab13by13]

11. Are you saying that the select committee,

a legislative committee, has more clout than DOJ and the FBI? Can the select committee empanel a grand jury to get information?

[Beastly Boy]

13. Clout is not the word.

They have clout, but I am not saying they have more or less of it than DOJ. I have no comparative data to make a determination on this either way.

What I am saying is that there are far more legal restrictions in place on DOJ to initiate and conduct investigations and prosecutions.The House can basically vote on the Select Committee's rules to be followed. In fact, their activities, unlike DOJ's, have nothing to do with prosecuting cases in a court of law, an activity that has its own set of legal restrictions independent of those specific to DOJ.

A totally different skill set.

[agingdem]

14. and while the J6 committee's sole purpose is

to "tell the story", the DOJ is invested in voting rights, voter intimidation, election inference, abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, the January 6 insurrection, and the list goes on...and while Trump's near successful coup to overthrow a presidential election is obvious to us, Garland needs established law to indict..I will reserve judgement regarding Garland and the DOJ until we hear from the committee...

[DownriverDem]

4. Remember

Americans have short attention spans. The closer to November the better.

[LLCARD]

9. I don't think the doj will announce or do anything public in the 2 months before elections

It’s their normal practice and a majority of the doj is probably republican and would rather have this all go away and drag Hillary to court.

[gab13by13]

12. I totally disagree,

that narrative is being used improperly. DOJ can do whatever it wants leading up to the election so long as its prosecution doesn't involve a candidate. There are plenty of other people who DOJ can indict and should indict if the evidence warrants it.

[Mr.Bill]

18. And why can't they prosecute a candidate?

Custom? Policy? Fuck that. That would be the best way to play hardball right now.

If you don't prosecute candidates, you're giving a pass to every member of the House of Representatives and some Senators. Not to mention candidates on the state level.

[Wounded Bear]

6. K & R...nt

[jaxexpat]

8. It's not for nothing these crooks delay the committee.

16 months and they're still successfully delaying the rendering of vital evidence. Evidence which will reveal the existence of more evidence of more wrongdoing. If this thing is not wrapped up by election day Garland could be giving the Congress back to the criminals. Patience, baloney. DOJ going the smart path, nonsense. There's not a single higher up among the cabal that's seen the inside of a cell.

[Picaro]

10. Here's my question

To be an attorney for someone means that there has to be a contractual arrangement between the two parties. A retainer must be paid to the lawyer at a minimum.

My understanding is that Eastman was not ever retained for legal services by TFG.

That was the basis of the ruling. He wasn’t TFG’s lawyer so ipso facto his communications are not covered by attorney/client privilege.

So, how can he withholding the 27,000 pages?

[usonian]

16. Because the FBI doesn't have the power to access them.

WAIT!!!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-29/fbi-searched-the-data-of-millions-of-americans-without-warrants

By Chris Strohm
April 29, 2022

The FBI searched emails, texts and other electronic communications of as many as 3.4 million U.S. residents without a warrant over a year, the nation’s top spy chief said in a report.

So they skipped ONE PERSON.
Everyone has a bad day, no?


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[Picaro]

17. OMG.

Have never trusted the FBI. In my day, they weren’t the good guys, but the forces of oppression.

[Novara]

20. The J6 committee's job is to investigate

And then they will present the evidence of crimes to the DOJ. If we didn't have a J6 committee, then the investigatory process would fall entirely to the DOJ.

Seems to me we should stop and be grateful the J6 committee is doing its job.

That said, Eastman is stalling, which has been their tactic all along. However, from what some of the J6 committee have said, it looks like they already have a shit-ton of prosecutable evidence. Once it is submitted to we the people via televised hearings, it's up to us to make a hell of a lot of noise to pressure the DOJ to act.

[agingdem]

21. correct...

the J6 committee would like Eastman to testify if only to get him in the hot seat, but I suspect they don't need what he's determined to hide...remember the committee has had a multitude of sit-downs with people more than willing to spill on Trump, his family, their congressional bosses, the enablers, and co-conspirators...I think We The People tend to forget January 6 and the plot to overturn the election, election interference, fake electors etc. is unprecedented ... before the DOJ can indict they need unambiguous incontrovertible evidence..the J6 committee will give them that and the DOJ will determine the law to prosecute...