The Lawyers Behind 1/6 Are Trying to Rewrite History. We Can't Let Them.

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🗓️ 6 January 2025

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OA1108 - A Coup in Search of a Legal Theory

We commemorate the fourth anniversary of the January 6, 2021 insurrection by remembering the two elite lawyers who bear significant personal, moral, and legal responsibility for one of the single worst days in US political history. The bad-faith legal cover Kenneth Chesebro and John Eastman provided for the “Stop the Steal” movement in the months leading up to MAGA’s violent insurrection would ultimately result in nine deaths, hundreds of injuries, and the initiation of more than 1500 federal criminal cases--but Eastman and his MAGA allies are already trying to rewrite that history in front of us. We push back in this special episode, with more to come.

SS chief Reinhart Heydrich’s official memo authorizing and regulating the Kristallnacht “demonstrations” targeting the property of German Jews (11/10/1938)
January 6th House Select Committee’s final report (and supporting evidence)
Fake elector records submitted to the National Archives (via FOIA by American Oversight)
Cleta Mitchell email requesting that John Eastman write a memo for a “movement” which needs “Constitutional support” (11/5/20)
John Eastman’s first “draft” memo (12/24/20)
John Eastman’s second memo (early 2021)
Kenneth Cheseboro’s NY disbarment ruling (10/31/24)
Record of John Eastman CA disbarment proceedings
Kenneth Cheseboro December 9, 2020 memo
John Eastman’s speech at January 6, 2021 “Stop the Steal” rally
Jack Smith’s Motion for Immunity Determination (with complete supporting brief) in Trump v. US outlining all of the many ways that Trump knew there was no fraud in the 2020 election and the entire fake elector scheme
DC federal indictment of Donald Trump for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election (8/1/2023)

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0:00.0	You must never ever give up or give in.
0:03.1	You must keep the faith and keep your eyes on the prize.
0:07.5	That is your calling.
0:08.9	That is your mission.
0:10.0	That is your moral obligation.
0:12.0	That is your mandate.
0:13.4	Get out there and do it.
0:15.0	Get in the way.
0:26.6	Change. Change happens because people care. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
0:36.6	I still believe with all my heart, America can't. free and beautiful to make this life a wonderful adventure.
0:48.3	I still believe with all my heart, America can be a place where no child is left hungry, no community is left behind, and no one gets told they don't belong.
0:55.0	The fight for our country is always worth it.
0:58.8	Hello and welcome to opening arguments.
1:02.8	This is episode 1108, insurrection special,
1:05.4	Insurrection Anniversary Special.
1:06.6	I'm Thomas Smith.
1:09.7	That over there is real life attorney, not disbarred,
1:12.3	unlike some of the folks we might be discussing today. Matt Cameron, how are you doing, Matt? I can honestly say I've never once advised anybody
1:17.7	on how to overthrow the government. So, almost sorry to say that, but yeah. But yeah, this is
1:24.7	some important history I want to do today because I feel like this is already getting erased.
1:28.1	And in fact, some of the people involved that we're going to talk about today are already trying to erase it and write themselves out of it.
1:32.3	So let's put them right back in there.
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