‘Coup dominos falling’: Trump’s prison odds increase as lawyers face consequences

There's big news tonight in holding Trump's

coup

plotters accountable, even as some AIDS-convicted Trumps also threaten Putin-style attacks on their opponents if they actually get Trump re-elected. Now this big news comes as a California judge today ruled against Trump attorney John Eastman, who is also separately awaiting a criminal trial in Georgia, and these mounting legal setbacks for Eastman are significant because he was the legal mastermind and architect of The key pillars of the

coup

plot, as demonstrated by those January 6 hearings, adopt a list of voters, began to ask me about something. deal with Georgia and preserve something potentially appealable.

I don't think it's just his authority to do that, but, frankly, I think he has a duty to do it. Did Dr. Eastman admit to the president that his proposal would violate the electoral count? act Mr. Ean acknowledged that that was the case, um, that even what he considered the most politically acceptable option would violate several provisions. I told him: are you crazy? I just want to hear two words coming out of your mouth for now. on the orderly transition orderly transition it's now about Eastman as described by his own Trump administration colleagues Those damning accounts came from people who generally supported Donald Trump's policies and ideology, but stopped short of the authoritarian coup Eastman was plotting in name of Trump, now a judge. just ruled that Eastman must be disbarred and expelled from his lifetime profession as a lawyer for his conduct in those plots, the judge cited Eastman's lies and gross negligence in connection with the 2020 election that Trump lost and found that the unit of State Bar investigation showed Eastman conspired with Trump to obstruct a legal government function through Jan. 6 plot Eastman and another accused Trump conspirator, Jeffrey Clark, risk losing their legal licenses and that's huge , have already been sought by agents in the separate federal case that you can see.

Some of those rather dramatic and unusual images here on your screen that are being blacked out constitute a warning to other

lawyers

who might ponder similar actions on behalf of yes, Donald Trump at this moment, but other politicians in the future. It's an important line in the sand because some anti-democracy advocates might make a good case if they can figure out how to do something that's not technically a felony, maybe they can get to that line, but here we've seen that the process of bar in several states demonstrates this even if

lawyers

try to use their legal knowledge.

Knowing that it is so complicated, a betrayal of their duty can still prevent them from ever practicing law again, and for most of these people, that is a big part of their life and it is also their main source of income. It is a big problem and I want to make it clear that this is independent of whether they are found to have committed crimes. Both of these two men, for example, are legally presumed innocent. Both also await criminal trials. Georgia will determine their criminal liability when they get their day in court. The other individual, Jeffrey Clark, who we have been covering was in court again yesterday in a separate but obviously related disqualification hearing, where he simply dodged the questions that Mr.

Fox will invoke the fifth in terms of invoking executive privilege, the law enforcement privilege, the deliberative process privilege, and the attorney-client privilege. about the Fifth Amendment executive privilege law enforcement privilege deliberative process privilege client privilege executive privilege and the other three and I'm taking the fifth and the other three and I'm taking the fifth it's almost like you know hey, I have so many reasons to be privileged and legally you can have that right, for example one of the rights that our constitution gives you is that if you

face

possible prosecution and im

prison

ment, which is a big problem, you cannot be forced to answer questions to give testimony. and evidence against him not only in that prosecution process but in other related judicial and legal proceedings, so he has that right.

Here's the bad news, although when he claims that right, he only escapes from answering the question that he doesn't escape from. be disbarred if the evidence supports it and it is certainly not helping his defense because if you had words to clearly explain why he did not commit a crime or conduct for which he could be disbarred, now would be the time to share it. so these officials in this process will decide whether it warrants disqualification, but there is a broader pattern here that no matter how long it took, it really matters and yes, Trump has shown that he likes to delay things, it's his first and favorite legal tactic and sometimes we've shown ways that it's worked, but the delays in a lot of these other cases haven't worked, they're failing and I'm going to show you right now in our feature story, Clark and Eastman were joined by four other attorneys from Trump facing disciplinary action and many more, seals. shows all the different places where they are in trouble, which is why Giuliani's law license is already suspended in New York.

He also

face

s Dispar and DC Ellis Powell and Chesboro charged and convicted. They have already pleaded guilty in the Georgia RICO case and that also puts pressure on their efforts to return to practicing law, in fact, being convicted is worse than being disbarred, so those are the lawyers. I'm showing you that and I'm about to show you something else, but lawyers matter more because I can tell them before they are born. the January 6th plot 10 years ago January 6th wasn't a date in American politics or history it wasn't something the news covered much it's not something people considered extra time to do something because of course , by January 6 it was all over.

It's over, it's over at the state level, the courts have reviewed it, there's nothing left to do, so in part what they tried to do beyond the violence was also unconstitutional. You don't have the vice president come in and reverse the result. of a full national election on January 6th never happened before it didn't work this time it's not supposed to happen in the future so how did it get so popular that Donald Trump found out about it and cared about it because he's not a constitutional scholar? Did all those people come that day? That all started with these lawyers and there are many people around politics who know about politics.

There are many people around Donald Trump who know about lies, but it took a relatively small number of lawyers to abuse their knowledge. go beyond the enthusiastic defense of a client who is completely protected and get into something else, so those are the lawyers, they started it, they planned it, they made January 6th something at least for the magga conspiracy theorists, but there are many other people who are key players in the Trump campaign. C orbit that are now also facing some real responsibility, we are running out of space and out of seals, but we are just using the chart accurately, so I'll walk you through some highlights.

Peter Navaro is the first Trump White House official to report to

prison

as we discuss this news tonight, he now he has been jailed since last week for defying January 6 investigators. Steve Bannon was convicted on the same charges, if he doesn't get a judge to intervene he will also report to prison as Navaro, there is an unknown and unindicted Co-conspirator who Jack Smith represents in the January 6th case who is facing that level of tension, although until now the name is not public, it is seen that at the bottom right was the number one official during all this, all the way up and until January 6 in Trump's White House Mark Meadows is a witness in Washington and has been impeached by Rico in Georgia The

falling

dominoes around Trump, who he himself we reveal here faces his own criminal trials only if you look at the blow from the side The classified documents left out the New York trade problems or the case of civil fraud, just for the coup, has two indictments and the Justice Department case could still go to trial before the election depending on what the Supreme Court does and other things prosecutors want those trials even in the middle of In the crowded election year, the argument is that the further to the right these trials go it is not because of the prosecutors, but because of Trump and the delay tactics, so you can't simultaneously delay and drag things out for a year and then complain that they are close to the elections when you were the defendant who brought them closer to the elections, that at least is the legal argument.

I will again affirm Trump as those other defendants I mentioned, although in each of those trials he is legally presumed innocent until prosecutors shoulder the burden if What they can do now to prove that a defendant is guilty is that no, there is other people who face other forms of responsibility for these related lies. Mr. Bannon is very publicly telling his viewers that he plans, if he can, to be part of a second Trump term where political prosecutions against Democrats are on the table in a Putin-style effort to go after opponents not not for what they could have done in an honest investigation but simply for who they are and a political attack that means he's basically saying Democrats will be jailed in any second Trump term. the night after we have won the accountability project will begin and this time it will be comprehensive, they will be in prison, yes, prison quote, they will be in prison, yes, prison designed to send. a message to wake people up to scare people to instill fear everything is in public right, if it was just a private plan you could send private messages and write private plans that is a secret approach this is something that seems more like at least a attempt at an aspect of the Putin Playbook where using and singling out government power against your opponents not only takes them off the table or, as has sometimes happened in Russia, is worse, but also sends a message to all Else, maybe you don't. you want to be associated with it maybe you don't want to be involved in it maybe you want to go back and just try to live your life and avoid being lumped in with these people, this group of people that Mr.

Bannon says are going to be quote unquote, yeah, prison, you know, traditionally in American politics and any of the parties of people who worked in the White House were at that level. I'm not talking about random loud flies, but people at the White House level, if you told them he was your boss. I'm going to pull a Putin and go after opponents just for their freedom of speech just because they're in a different party people would normally say no, no, never and here we have the opposite, yes, count on it, an admission from Putin by of a possible move by Putin.

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