Arizona Fake Electors Case: Donald Trump Lawyers John Eastman, Jenna Ellis, Others Officially Named and Indicted
As Trump critics joke, MAGA often means "Make Attorneys Get Attorneys," as four lawyers tied to Donald Trump have officially been revealed also to be indicted in the Arizona fake electors case, along with Rudy Giuliani and Mark Meadows. They are John Eastman, Christina Bobb, Boris Epshteyn, and Jenna Ellis.
Arizona authorities revealed that former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and Trump lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, as well as the four other Trump attorneys, John Eastman, Christina Bobb, Boris Epshteyn, and Jenna Ellis, have all been indicted on conspiracy, fraud, and forgery charges.
Mike Roman, who served as Trump's director of Election Day operations in 2020, along with the four other Trump attorneys, was given nine felony counts each, according to the Associated Press. They allegedly organized the Arizona fake electors scheme by using fake documents to persuade Congress not to certify Joe Biden's victory.
A total of 18 pro-Trump Republicans were indicted in Arizona, with 11 initially being named, while Meadows and Giuliani were described as "Trump's chief of staff" and a "former mayor," respectively. The 11 Republicans named in the indictment were the 11 fake electors, while the others, including Ellis and Eastman, were initially unnamed.
Eastman, Meadows, and Giuliani slammed the case as "political," while Roman, Epshteyn, Bobb, and Ellis declined to comment. The former president was not charged in Arizona but was referred to as an unindicted co-conspirator.
An initial hearing for the Arizona fake electors case has been scheduled for May 21. Arizona is now the fourth US state to charge the former president's allies with using false or unproven claims about voter fraud related to the election.
Indictment Alleges That Arizona Fake Elector Scheme Defendants 'Deceived the Citizens of Arizona'
The indictment is still partially redacted, but several details about Arizona's case against the 18 co-defendants have already been revealed.
"In Arizona, and the United States, the people elected Joseph Biden as President on November 3, 2020," wrote prosecutors in the indictment. "Unwilling to accept this fact, Defendants and unindicted co-conspirators schemed to prevent the lawful transfer of the presidency to keep Unindicted Co-conspirator 1 in office against the will of Arizona's voters."
"Defendants deceived the citizens of Arizona by falsely claiming that those votes were contingent only on a legal challenge that would change the outcome of the election," continued the indictment. "In reality, Defendants intended that their false votes for Trump-Pence would encourage Pence to reject the Biden-Harris votes on January 6, 2021, regardless of the outcome of the legal challenge."
Arizona Fake Electors Scheme Defendant John Eastman Facing Disbarment
The Arizona indictment just means more legal trouble for John Eastman, who is not only indicted in the Georgia elections case but is also facing disbarment in his home state of California over his role in Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 election results in several key swing states.
Eastman was once a respected conservative law professor who once served as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. However, his actions during the lead-up to the January 6 Capitol Insurrection led to many questioning his law expertise.
A California State Bar Court judge has already recommended he be stripped of his license to practice law in California. "Eastman's wrongdoing constitutes exceptionally serious ethical violations warranting severe professional discipline," wrote Judge Yvette Roland in her decision calling for Eastman to be disbarred.
She added, "Eastman made multiple patently false and misleading statements in court filings, in public remarks heard by countless Americans and to others regarding the conduct of the 2020 presidential election and Vice President Pence's authority to refuse to count or delay counting properly certified slates of electoral votes on January 6, 2021."
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Written by: Rick Martin
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