Former Trump legal adviser John Eastman is attempting to shield thousands of his old work emails from the House Jan. 6 Committee on the basis of attorney-client privilege, according to his latest motion filed on Sunday in his lawsuit against the committee.
IANAL, but this suggests incriminating evidence in those emails, not someone proudly upholding legal precedent. Just an illegal President. But that’s just me.
A-C privilege will not apply, I can bet. Of course, this is all just delaying the inevitable release.
Actual question:
How, when, why, and over what subject matter did Eastman and Trump form an attorney-client relationship? So far as I can tell, he’s just a dude with a law degree hanging around a presidential campaign for no particular purpose. Writing a crazy-ass memo as an audition for Attorney General doesn’t make you anyone’s lawyer.
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Hey, emails are only a “thing” when they’re tied to “Crooked Hillary.” That’s just Journo 101.
Lock him up.
And throw away the key.
J6Committee:. Show us the paid invoice for the IMPOTUS legal services rendered, and the bank deposit showing that income.
I think Eastman’s attorney-client privilege fight is a red herring because that privilege doesn’t apply when the topic being discussed is the planning of a crime.
Any lawyers out there please let me know if this is true.
When was he EVER the President’s lawyer? He also used his work email account in ways that were prohibited. Release them all.
He is an avid student of the GQP dance style called “The Foot Drag.”
It’s becoming apparent that, when those emails are finally released, this moron is going to be in a world of hurt.
It has been a long time since I took that law school class that noted all of the ways that an A-C relationship can be created, but I recall that there needs to be clear and unambiguous evidence that an A-C relationship was created (like a signed engagement letter) and, as @txlawyer points out, some evidence as to the scope and subject matter of the relationship. If I were the J6 committee’s counsel, I would be fighting the notion that any A-C relationship existed between dump and Eastman.
John Eastman, you’re no Roy Cohn!!!
Extremely unlikely that Eastman ever got paid. He’s a gadfly flitting around a corpse promising to raise it from the dead. I basically guarantee you that none of Rudy, Sidney, Lin, or Eastman even have an engagement letter with Fat Donnie Two Impeachments or his campaign committee.
Forming an attorney-client relationship requires neither payment nor an engagement letter, but they’re both probative of whether such a relationship actually exists. A termination letter would be helpful too. Like, “We did our best with the attempted coup but now our criminal attorney-client conspiracy has reached its end.”
Show us the Retainer Agreement or Representation Agreement.
Or perhaps the Non-Disclosure Agreement?
Really. Was there anything that Eastman did that was even slightly legal that would plausibly have privilege attached to it?
Now, that’s asking an awful lot of the guy who, according to a chorus of attorneys, “doesn’t listen and he doesn’t pay.”
I would like to see his billing log.
I don’t do any federal practice but it seems to me that the Judge could appoint a discovery referee and have that referee go through the documents at a rate of $500-600/hr., to be paid by Eastman. That’s an easy solution.