EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump attorney John Eastman is expected to warn that “freedom of speech” is “gone” in an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Tuesday night.
Former President Trump, Eastman and 17 others were charged out of Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ investigation into alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia.
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“We did nothing wrong,” Eastman is expected to tell Ingraham in a multi-part interview. Part one of the interview will air at 7:00 p.m. ET Tuesday on the “Ingraham Angle” on Fox News Channel.
“We were challenging the election for what even Vice President Pence described as serious allegations of fraud and numerous instances of officials violating state law,” Eastman is expected to say. “And if we can’t speak out about that, then our freedom of speech, our right to petition the government for redress of grievances are gone.”
Eastman was charged with nine counts of crimes, including racketeering, conspiracy to commit forgery, and filing false documents. He turned himself in to the Fulton County Jail last week and accepted a bond of $100,000.
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Eastman, a former dean of Chapman University law school in Southern California, is facing charges related to his advice to Trump on how the former president could overturn the 2020 election.
Eastman has slammed the indictment for targeting attorneys for “zealous advocacy on behalf of their clients,” and said each defendant should be entitled to rely on the advice of lawyers and past legal precedent.
“The people that I was representing had a right to counsel,” Eastman will tell Ingraham. “And what’s going on here with the bar complaint against everybody involved in any of the litigation, this Fulton County complaint, the unindicted coconspirators in the federal action, they’re trying to stifle people from being…
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