The disbarment trial of Donald Trump’s former attorney and constitutional legal scholar, John Eastman, finished a partial ninth week on Tuesday, as the renowned former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas explained how he thought fraud occurred in the 2020 election. The State Bar of California is attempting to disbar him over advice he gave Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence regarding accepting electoral slates from states suspected of election fraud.
Eastman’s attorney, Randy Miller, conducted a direct examination of him on Monday and Tuesday, asking him why he believed there could have been tampering with the voting machines, one of the accusations in the California Bar’s charges against him. Eastman (pictured above) said he spoke with two people investigating the election problems on how ballots could be preloaded into the voting machines. One of them, FEC United founder Joe Oltmann, showed him a chart that laid out the points of vulnerability where a rogue actor could manipulate them.
Eastman discussed a memo called “Big Con, Little Cons” that someone investigating election fraud in Georgia had given him, which he found influential. He summarized it as stating that people are getting distracted by small problems when “all that was needed was an internet connection.”
Miller asked Eastman about conversations with key people on January 5, 2021. Eastman said he talked to Oltmann and cybersecurity expert Russell Ramsland that day about their predictions on how election fraud would occur that night in the Georgia run-off election. They predicted as vote totals got close to 100 percent, the percentage reported would remain the same while additional ballots were added. The counting would have to shut down to find voters who hadn’t voted. Eastman said he observed it happen that night in Georgia; the percentage reported stayed at 95 percent for a long time. He said the ballots were either scanned multiple times or the ballot images were replicated multiple times.
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