The disbarment trial of Donald Trump’s former attorney and constitutional legal scholar John Eastman is in the middle of the seventh week. On Wednesday, retired Department of Defense analyst Ray Blehar returned to the witness stand, discussing his findings that “large injections of votes” were added during the U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia in January 2021. He was followed by Dr. Stanley Young, a statistician who appears to be the only one of Eastman’s witnesses who California Bar Disciplinary Court Judge Yvette Roland has allowed to be designated as an expert witness.
Eastman’s attorney Randy Miller asked Blehar about an email exchange he had with Eastman regarding the runoff, in which Democrat Jon Ossoff defeated Republican incumbent David Perdue. Blehar told Eastman that “large injections of votes (over 10,000) were added” on five occasions during the Georgia Senate runoff race overnight. Roland cut him off, stating that it wasn’t relevant to the charges against Eastman and was “wasting time.” The bar disciplinary charges state that Eastman “made false and misleading statements regarding purported election fraud.”
A lengthy portion of California bar attorney Duncan Carling’s cross-examination of Blehar consisted of asking him about things he hadn’t done, such as research he had not conducted. For example, he asked him, “Have you submitted anything to a peer reviewed publication?” Blehar responded, “I have not. I have not tried to get anything published.”
Carling asked Blehar about an old blog of his called Reveal the Steal, which Blehar hadn’t updated in well over a year. Miller objected to the line of questioning as not being relevant, since Blehar was there to discuss his statistical reports, but Roland overruled him.
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