Claremont Institute senior fellow and former constitutional attorney John Eastman appeared on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast and said that his disbarment case in California was politically motivated and part of what he describes as a broader left-wing takeover of American institutions.
MSNBC is part of it. They are inextricably linked as the propaganda arm for this radical movement that is attempting to really take over the country. In fact, I would argue they’ve taken over the country.
It’s the Trump militia that’s fighting back. You now have seen it when the Supreme Court of California just gives a two-word thing, yeah, disbar him, get rid of him, we want to silence him. Your thoughts on the entire system and how we fight back?
JOHN EASTMAN, CLAREMONT INSTITUTE: Our brief to the California Supreme Court hit three important federal constitutional rights, the freedom of speech. Steve, one of the charges against me was because I commented about illegality in the election, said it was widespread on your show back in January of 2021. They said that was false because the election was perfect, the size ahead said so, and I knew that, so I was lying.
Of course, none of that’s true. But the fact that they would disbar me for, among other things, speaking on your show, or writing an op-ed, or giving a speech, this is core protected First Amendment rights, and urging the Vice President to do something about the illegality, that’s core right to petition the government for redress of grievances, and that they would do this in a disciplinary proceeding that was the longest and most expensive in our nation’s history, in all likelihood, before a judge who was just dripping with animosity throughout the 10-week long trial. A reporter named Rachel Alexander watched every single day you actually broadcast some of the proceedings yourself.
Anybody that watched those proceedings just came away stunned at how one-sided it was. Hearsay evidence coming in on the other side, left and right, and being blocked on my side. One of the issues, key issues, was whether any reasonable lawyer would have filed the Texas v.
Pennsylvania original action in the Supreme Court. We offered the briefs of 17 different state’s attorney generals that did exactly the same thing I did, and she said those were not relevant. But the briefs on the other side of that very same case that took issue with us were all admitted into evidence.
This is how lopsided the thing was. So that’s a federal due process problem as well. Look, we’ve got to be very clear here.
This is much bigger than my own bar license. What’s going on here is a leftist Marxist capture of our institutions, and then weaponizing them to destroy any political opposition to the deep globalist state that is getting entrenched in this country. Because I stood up to illegality in the 2020 election, other than President Trump himself and perhaps Rudy Giuliani, I’ve become target number one because I won’t stop talking about the illegality and trying to shine a light on it and be like Paul Revere, warning our fellow American citizens of what’s about to happen if we don’t fix this.
