BREAKING NEWS: Trump Lawyer John Eastman Speaks Out About January 6—and Makes Everything Worse for Trump

In an op-ed for the Sacramento Bee, Eastman—one of Trump's lawyers on January 6 and a participant in the former president's Willard Hotel war room—offers a stunning defense of Trump's coup conspiracy.

Introduction

By January 6, 2021, not a single state legislature in the United States—whether GOP-led or otherwise—had voted to de-certify its presidential electors. Indeed, every state had certified its 2020 election results, including every GOP-led state legislature that sent Biden electors to D.C. for the joint session of Congress scheduled for January…