John Eastman, then a professor at Claremont McKenna College, at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, in 2019.

Federalist Society Facebook photo.

Note: This is lightly edited and adapted from a recent email received from John Eastman.

The outrageous prosecution of me by California state bar officials has entered its sixth long week. The term “prosecution” is really not apt. It’s more like persecution by activist lawyers determined to “get” President Donald Trump and every lawyer like me who had the temerity to defend his right to lawfully challenge illegalities in the 2020 election.

The crux of the State Bar’s case against me is its claim that there was no evidence of significant fraud in the 2020 presidential elections and my legal filings on behalf of President Trump and my public statements to the contrary show that I am unfit to be a lawyer.

This is the outrageous and false position that State Bar prosecutors have staked out in court for week after week. But now, finally, I have been able to begin to present my defense.

Through the efforts of my legal team and the blockbuster testimony of my amazing witnesses, the American people are finally seeing all of the election illegality and fraud that we all saw with our own eyes back in 2020 get its day in court.

This attack against me by the California State Bar mirrors the charges of a partisan lawfare group that is determined to put me, President Trump and all of his defenders in prison. I have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars defending against these outrageously false charges, and I am looking at over $1 million in additional costs.

All of this is happening because I agreed with President Trump that the 2020 election involved massive irregularities and illegalities, and I agreed to help him present his case in the courts and Congress.

Eastman makes his case

Here’s a quick run down on how my legal team has demolished the State Bar prosecutors’ case against me:

Berkeley Law School Professor John Yoo who, like me, is an expert in constitutional law and particularly in the original meaning of the Constitution, explained in great detail – despite efforts by the Bar’s lawyers to block his testimony – that based on his extensive research the majority of the scholarship on this subject agreed with my position as presented in court filings and public statements – that the Vice President had the ultimate decision-making authority to resolve disputes about contested electoral votes.

Justice Michael Gabelman, former Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the individual appointed by the Wisconsin legislature to serve as Special Counsel investigating the Wisconsin elections, testified at length about the widespread illegalities in Wisconsin in 2020.

These included Democrat counties accepting millions in funding from a Mark Zuckerberg group to help them “conduct” the election – including efforts to boost Democrat turnout – as well as the illegal use of drop boxes, illegal processing of absentee ballots and illegal balloting in nursing homes and similar facilities. One Democrat operative even took over running the Green Bay elections office.

Then my team brought forth an election integrity expert from Georgia, Garland Favorito, who offered extensive testimony about irregularities and illegalities in that state. These included the destruction of 1.7 million ballot images, the deletion of video surveillance for 181,000 ballots cast at drop boxes, and clearly fraudulent ballots that were counted.

For example, Favorito said there was “flat-out fraud” where he found “7 falsified tally sheets with 850 Biden votes to 0 Trump votes” as well as mail-in ballots in Fulton County that weren’t folded even though they must be mailed to voters.

Along with other problems –- including ballots that were filled out electronically instead of with a regular pen and other ballots that did not have the correct paper stock –- Mr. Favorito testified that the total of counterfeit ballots substantially exceeded Joe Biden’s margin of “victory” in Georgia.

So much for the ridiculous claim that there was no evidence of election illegalities.

I look forward to continuing to present my defense this week, which hopefully will include testimony from officials in Arizona concerning irregularities and illegalities there.

In addition to the inordinate amount of my time I have had to devote to this trial, all while preparing for the upcoming Georgia prosecution by leftwing District Attorney Fani Willis, the financial burden imposed on me by having full trial teams in place for what will end up being 7 or 8 weeks of trial has also been immense. It weighs heavily on me and my family.

As you know, aside from this disbarment proceeding in California and the upcoming Georgia trial, I have also been named an “unindicted co-conspirator” in Jack Smith’s prosecution of President Trump in Washington, D.C. over the election challenges.

To support the John Eastman Legal Defense Fund with an online gift, to go:

https://john-eastman-legal-defense-fund-llc.revv.co/give-today?utm_source=EA230925JEM01&first_name=Patrick&email=ckane6@aol.com&amount=&mc_cid=6c6924ffb7&mc_eid=9542225703

The leftwing lawfare Democrats want to destroy me, bankrupt my family, and throw me in prison.

One more request: please keep me and my family in your prayers. This is a spiritual battle as much as it is a legal battle. We need your ongoing prayers.

Note: Contributions to this legal defense fund are not deductible for federal income tax purposes. Here is the snail mail address: John Eastman Legal Defense Fund, LLC, P.O. Box 32654, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87594