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State Bar & Bar Associations

Jun. 30, 2023

Eastman testifies that he wanted to convey something was “deeply amiss” with 2020 election results

Attorney for John C. Eastman, facing disbarment for actions after the 2020 elections, objects to prosecution presenting TV news reports as evidence.

Eastman testifies that he wanted to convey something was “deeply amiss” with 2020 election results
John C. Eastman with his attorney, Randalll A. Miller, at the State Bar Court in Los Angeles. Ricardo Pineda / Daily Journal

Taking the stand Thursday, after a break in his California State Bar disbarment hearing, John C. Eastman told prosecutors that he did not necessarily intend to suggest in a Supreme Court filing that the 2020 presidential election was stolen — although he didn’t mean not to say that, either.

“I was citing what a poll said, that a large number of Americans believe it was stolen. I simply say that a large percentage of Americans know that so...

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