{"id":2017575,"date":"2023-08-31T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T04:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eastman-says-jan-6-capitol-breaching-was-as-much-against-our-interest-as-anybodys\/"},"modified":"2023-08-31T00:02:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T04:02:04","slug":"eastman-says-jan-6-capitol-breaching-was-as-much-against-our-interest-as-anybodys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eastman-says-jan-6-capitol-breaching-was-as-much-against-our-interest-as-anybodys\/","title":{"rendered":"Eastman claims Jan. 6 Capitol breach was against our interest too."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feastman-says-jan-6-capitol-breaching-was-as-much-against-our-interest-as-anybodys%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2017575&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Trump Attorney John Eastman: Capitol Breach Undermined Efforts to Challenge Election<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u200c was terrible, and anybody who \u2063thinks that we had any hand\u2064 or I had any\u2062 hand\u200d in coordinating\u2064 it doesn\u2019t know how \u2063much it was contrary to what\u200d we were trying \u2062to do, which \u200dis get the illegality and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eastman-says-jan-6-capitol-breaching-was-as-much-against-our-interest-as-anybodys\/\" title=\"Eastman claims Jan. 6 Capitol breach was against our interest too.\">fraud \u2062allegations aired<\/a> \u200bin a public way,\u201d\u2064 Eastman told\u2064 Fox News host Laura Ingraham. \u201cThat\u200c went out the window the second that Capitol was breached. It was as much against our interest as anybody\u2019s for that \u200bthing to have \u2064happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Retail Theft \u200bDelivers an \u200bEconomic Blow for Companies and Communities<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe peaceful rally down at \u200cthe Ellipse, \u200bwith somewhere between a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-skips-fact-checking-to-run-with-nurses-unverified-story-about-covid-patients-last-dying-words\/\" title=\"CNN Skips Fact-Checking To Run With Nurse's Unverified Story About COVID Patients 'Last Dying Words'\">quarter million<\/a> and \u200ba <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/siding-with-the-communist-party-dagen-mcdowell-blasts-media-for-blowing-off-lab-leak-theory-because-republicans-brought-it-up\/\" title=\"\u2018Siding With The Communist Party\u2019: Dagen McDowell Blasts Media For Blowing Off Lab Leak Theory Because Republicans Brought It Up\">half million people<\/a>, another rally \u2063that was \u2063properly\u200c permitted to occur on \u2062the northeast corner of the\u200d Capitol,\u201d Eastman \u200bcontinued. \u201cAll of that peaceful right \u2064of the \u2064American people to petition their \u2064government for redress of grievances, to speak\u2064 out against what they saw was\u200b wrong \u200bwith the election\u2064 \u2014 all of that went out the window when those doors of the Capitol were breached.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Eastman is one of 19 defendants, including former President Donald Trump, indicted in Georgia\u200c on charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020\u200b presidential\u200b election. Eastman\u2064 has continued\u200d to \u2064defend his \u200dconduct and challenge prosecutors\u200c to find \u2064any wrongdoing on his part.<\/p>\n<p>In part\u200c two of the interview with Ingraham that \u2062aired Wednesday\u2063 night, Eastman also denied encouraging then-Vice President Mike \u2062Pence to reject\u200c electors\u2019\u200b certifications\u200b of the \u200dvote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2064 I recommended, and\u200c I \u200dhave said this repeatedly, is that he exceed to request for more\u2062 than 100 state legislators in those swing states to\u200b give them a \u2063week to try to sort out the impact\u2063 of what everybody acknowledged was illegality in\u200b the\u2063 conduct of the election,\u201d Eastman said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO\u200d READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eastman said it was his thought \u2062that a week would have given time for legal proceedings \u200dto consider whether the\u200d \u201cuncertainty\u201d of the election results was great enough\u2062 to suggest \u2062a failed election.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney has promised that he and his legal team \u200bwill \u201cvigorously contest every count of\u200d the indictment \u200cin \u200cwhich \u200cI am named, and also every count in which others\u2063 are named,\u2063 for which my\u200b knowledge of the \u2064relevant \u200dfacts,\u2063 law, and constitutional provisions may prove \u200dhelpful,\u201d adding in a statement last \u2064week \u200bthat he was \u201cconfident that \u200dwhen the \u200blaw is faithfully\u2062 applied in this proceeding, all\u2063 of\u2064 my \u200bco-defendants \u2064and I will be fully vindicated.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Trump attorney John Eastman stated that the Capitol breach on January 6 disrupted all attempts to challenge the 2020 election. 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