BREAKING Donald Trump’s attorney John Eastman is second co-conspirator to surrender in Georgia
- John Eastman was being held at the Fulton County Jail Tuesday morning
- Former President Donald Trump says he plans to turn himself in on Thursday
John Eastman, the conservative lawyer who helped devise a plan to keep Donald Trump in power, was the former president’s second co-defendant to surrender to Georgia authorities Tuesday morning.
Eastman was held in the Fulton County Jail before being released by authorities.
Trump and 18 co-defendants are accused in a wide-ranging racketeering case of trying to change the outcome of the 2024 election.
Trump himself said a day earlier that he would present himself in jail on Thursday, one day before the Friday noon deadline.
Eastman, a former dean of law at Chapman University in Southern California, was a close advisor to Trump in the run-up to the January 6, 2021 attack by Trump supporters on the US Capitol to prevent the certification of Biden’s election victory.
John Eastman, former dean of law at Chapman University in Southern California, was a close adviser to Trump in the run-up to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol
According to the sheriff, most people arrested in Fulton County are being taken to the main jail on Rice Street, northwest of downtown, where detention conditions are being investigated
He wrote a memo outlining steps Vice President Mike Pence could take to interfere with the voter count while presiding over the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress to keep Trump in office.
He was named in a 98-page indictment against Georgia released last week.
The defendants were charged with 41 felonies related to efforts to reverse Trump’s defeat in the 2020 state election.
On Monday, court filings revealed the bond agreements reached between the defendants and Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. They appeared individually on the court’s website.
A day later, the accused began to turn themselves in.
The first was Scott Hall, a bail bondsman in Atlanta. He is being charged in connection with an alleged violation of the electoral system in Coffee County, Georgia.
Then came Eastman.
The indictment accuses him and others of promoting a plan with “alternative” voters that would certify Trump’s victory.
Scott Hall with Donald Trump – Hall was the first of Trump’s co-conspirators to surrender to Atlanta authorities
He will not make a formal pleading until he appears in court. Meanwhile, his legal team said the indictment “set forth political, but not criminal, activity.”
“Lawyers around the world should be sleepless at this latest ploy to criminalize their advocacy.” “It’s a legal cluster bomb that leaves lawyers with unexploded explosive devices forever,” his attorneys said.