My long-awaited hearing before the California Appellate Division of the California State Bar was held yesterday. I thought it went well for our side, but I just could not sit there any longer and listen to the Bar lawyer lie about my work and the record in this case.
After my lawyer did an excellent job in his opening comments, and Bar prosecutors lied their way through their presentation, I had had enough and decided to DO THE RUBUTTAL MYSELF.
People watching tell me it was a tour de force!
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Iâll share some specifics with you below but I first have to emphasize the precarious condition my legal defense fund is in presently. Weâve expended nearly every dollar we had preparing for this hearing. Itâs been nearly a year in the making and all this time my law license has been on inactive status.
Now weâre about out of money, but those who are targeting me have not run out of the HATE for me and for my former client, President Trump. I desperately need help to keep my defense team going. My career hangs in the balance and my very freedom is at stake. Please help!
Let me share something about the so-called prosecutors who dare allege that I am the one who lacks the ethics required to practice law.
This is a group of people who have doctored quotations from court decisions in the most critical issues in this case. They rattled off the most exaggerated claims youâve ever heard, as though they were regurgitating talking points from CNN or MSNBC. Things like: Eastman lied at every turn. He knew he was lying. There was no evidence. At one point the Bar lawyer actually said thereâs no evidence of a single fraudulent vote that was cast. So, I laid into their lies.
I reminded the judges of the testimony of former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gabelman who testified of massive fraud in nursing homes, including votes cast by elderly residents who had no idea who they were or where they lived. How their turnout went from about 20% in past elections to nearly 100% in 2020. How Justice Gabelman estimated that there were tens of thousands of fraudulent ballots cast in nursing homes alone, and that was just one of many areas of concern about the integrity of the election in that state.
When one of the judges suggested that any irregularities were not serious enough for any legislators to address them, that my defense was based on hearsay âand one email,â I responded forcefully, âJudge thatâs not true. Look at Exhibit 1153. Let me read it to you. âA majority of the State Senate is troubledâ by the illegality in the election. âWe believe that the Pennsylvania election results should not have been certified by our Secretary of State.â Thatâs not hearsay. Thatâs an official statement from the President Pro Tem of the Pennsylvania Senate purporting to represent a majority of the Pennsylvania Senate. I could go on your honor. Almost every statement theyâve made is demonstrably false. Iâm not going to just sit here and let you believe that I made false statements as a precondition for what you are about to do here. Iâm going to correct the record.â
They sat stone faced looking at me like nothing like that had ever happened in that courtroom before. I thought that was important to do.
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If there is any justice in the State Bar, the Appellate Division will overturn the trial judgeâs recommendation that I lose my license to practice law. Again, I think the hearing went very well. The judges seemed impressed by my lawyerâs presentation and people who watched said my rebuttal was powerful and persuasive.
I also was pleased to see the judges question a number of statements from Bar prosecutors and appear to disagree with some of their conclusions. I could be wrong, but my sense is that even those who accepted many of the trial judgeâs findings of âfactâ struggled with her recommendation of disbarment as a just punishment.
The Appellate Division has 90 days to make their ruling, so weâll likely be waiting until the end of June. In the meantime, we need to prepare to appeal any adverse ruling to the California Supreme Court, or to oppose an appeal by the State Bar lawyers if the Review Department rules my way, because the California State Supreme Court is the only body in the state with the power to make the final decision about lawyer discipline.
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Waiting for a decision from California will be difficult, but not nearly as difficult as the struggle I face with partisan Democrat prosecutors in Arizona and Georgia who are bent on imprisoning me for decades because they hate that I helped President Trump bring forth concerns about illegalities and improprieties in the 2020 presidential contest.
It is imperative that I focus attention on repairing the dismal state of my legal defense fund. We have so much more work to do before I am free of this lawfare assault. With so much on the line, I turn to you to ask for an EMERGENCY DONATION today of $25, $50, $100, $250 or $500 or more.
Thank you for whatever you can do to help. And thank you to all those who kept me, my family and my legal team in your prayers for a successful hearing.
Sincerely,
John Eastman
Constitutional Scholar
Former Attorney for President Donald Trump