John Eastman Busted On Camera Bragging About His Coup Memo | Talking Points Memo

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things.

Former Trump legal adviser John Eastman told an undercover progressive activist on camera that he stood by his blueprint on how Mike Pence could subvert the 2020 election for Trump – despite insisting as recently as last week to the National Review that he totally didn’t believe those ideas could work.


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Eastman insisted that Pence “was an establishment guy at the end of the day”.
But I think Pence just acted on the fly.

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I see what you did there. :smile:

Anyway… Lock him UP!

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Funny how smug they all sound when they think they are “among friends”…

Hope this asshole goes down in flames and soon. And takes a whole lot of his co-conspirators with him.

:rage:

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https://www.rawstory.com/house-select-committee-jan-6/

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The first rule of fight club…

With cameras and microphones in literally everyone’s pockets these days, pays to just keep your damned mouth shut.

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The world is an odd place.

But it’s DEVO.

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No one is going anywhere. Paying a price for your behavior requires the presence of someone to mete it out. Republicans have the good fortune of the Keystone Kops as their antagonists.

Arrogance is not easy to hold in check, especially when you just know you‘re smarter than everyone else.

Arrogance is gonna bring them all down.

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I’d rather see him like this than the sniveling Wormtongue he was last week. At least this version of him has conviction in his legal reasoning.

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Harvey Dent is less two faced than this joker.

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Yep. ‘Cause you know after his “walkback“, he went out to the bar with his cronies and sneered about the gullibility of those who he (again) lied to.

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It’s like low IQ robbers who commit crimes in main downtown areas, seemingly unaware that huge percentages of public space are now under surveillance cameras. Also, these days, practically every electronic device also has recording (and or filming…) ability, so how do people think they can keep speeches and conversations with unknown persons secret?

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Biden is focused on roads and bridges and social services and the taxes required to pay for it all. Meanwhile everyone to the left of your average Republican firmly believes the trend toward crippling our voting laws represents a clear and present danger to the survival of our democracy. And lack of action on climate change is an existential threat to our species and the planet. Yet the franchise and the climate are both having the towel thrown in on them.

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The defining characteristic of all major conservative figures these days is that they want power and influence without any responsibility. I have a certain respect even for people who take extreme positions if they own up to them and accept the consequences.

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(20) Chad Pergram on Twitter: “From colleague Paul Steinhauser. McConnell endorses Herschel Walker for Senate. McConnell: “Herschel is the only one who can unite the party, defeat Senator Warnock, and help us take back the Senate. I look forward to working with Herschel in Washington to get the job done.”” / Twitter

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After reading through the whole “memo”, it occurred to me it was just a losing catalog of “dumbshit things GQPers think and do”.

I’m beginning to think that they are required to check whatever brains they have at the gate when they enter the Gooper tent. So much idiocy in one place.

(I wouldn’t mind if it weren’t for the malevolence handed out with their membership pin.)

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Sounds like perjury to me: lock him up.

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FIFY. And just because it’s dumb doesn’t mean it wouldn’t have sufficed, had the right players played along with it.

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