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  Re: Trump attorney John Eastman says Clinton bought FBI agents seized his phone, according to new lawsuit "George Soros FBI whores" <corrupt.fbi.whores@nytimes.com> - 2022-06-28 04:01 +0200

#2314 — Re: Trump attorney John Eastman says Clinton bought FBI agents seized his phone, according to new lawsuit

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<governor.swill@gmail.com> wrote:

Washington – A conservative attorney tied to former President 
Donald Trump is claiming FBI agents seized his cellphone outside 
of a New Mexico restaurant last week pursuant to a search 
warrant, according to a lawsuit he filed Monday.

John Eastman – known for allegedly devising a scheme to keep 
Trump in office by pressuring former Vice President Mike Pence – 
said in Monday's court filing that the federal agents approached 
him with the warrant for any electronic and digital devices on 
his person. According to a purported copy of the search warrant 
that accompanied Eastman's lawsuit, law enforcement was then to 
transport the devices to Washington, D.C., or a Justice 
Department forensic lab in Northern Virginia.

Eastman alleged the agents "frisked" him before he was "forced 
to provide biometric data" to open his iPhone 12 Pro, which 
contained access to emails that are currently at issue in 
another lawsuit he filed against the House Select Committee 
investigating the January 6 Capitol attack. He filed Monday's 
lawsuit to force the Justice Department to return his phone.

The warrant was authorized by a federal magistrate judge in New 
Mexico on June 17, according to the copy filed Monday.

Eastman spoke at Trump's "Save America" rally at the Ellipse on 
the morning of Jan. 6 ahead of the riot. The House Jan. 6 
committee has revealed that he was among those who pushed the 
former president and Pence to block the certification of 
President Biden's election victory and Eastman is also accused 
of advocating for the use of alternate electors.  The committee 
investigating the attack subpoenaed him to testify about the 
events leading up to the Jan. 6 riot and declined to turn over 
documents and during his deposition asserted his Fifth Amendment 
right 146 times.

The panel is still working to obtain hundreds of pages of 
documents and emails after it issued a subpoena to Chapman 
University, where Eastman was a law professor and former dean of 
the law school.  The California judge presiding over that matter 
ruled in March that Trump "more likely than not" illegally tried 
to impede official congressional proceedings on January 6.

"Dr. Eastman and President Trump launched a campaign to overturn 
a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American 
history," U.S. District  Court Judge David Carter wrote.

In his complaint filed Monday, Eastman said the warrant to seize 
his phone was overbroad and a violation of his constitutional 
rights.

"The warrant does not even mention, much less describe with 
specificity, any particular crime for which evidence sought by 
the warrant might be relevant, or include any information 
linking movant's devices or the information contained therein to 
any such crime," he said in the lawsuit/.

He added later, "The warrant gives no indication that evidence 
of any wrongdoing would be found on a cell phone or other 
electronic device."

Eastman alleges he initially asked for the warrant "at the 
outset" of the search and seizure, but the federal agents 
initially refused.

The Justice Department's Office of Inspector General, on whose 
behalf Eastman alleges the federal agents said they were acting, 
declined to comment. The U.S. Attorney's office in D.C. also had 
no comment.

The warrant for Eastman's phone appeared to be served  on the 
same day law enforcement authorities searched the home of former 
Trump-era Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark. Clark is 
believed to be central to the efforts of Trump and his allies to 
delay the certification of the 2020 election results and promote 
baseless claims that Mr. Biden had not legitimately won the 
election.

Last week, CBS News learned there was law enforcement activity 
at locations connected to people who may have participated in 
efforts to use "invalid electors" to reverse President Joe 
Biden's 2020 victory. Federal agents issued subpoenas to 
individuals connected with the alleged scheme in Georgia, 
Virginia, and Arizona.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-attorney-john-eastman-says-
fbi-agents-seized-his-phone-according-to-new-lawsuit/

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