Fox Information host Laura Ingraham informed John Eastman she had not seen proof of fraud within the 2020 election after the previous Donald Trump legal professional claimed he had “lots” of it.
Eastman was certainly one of 18 Trump allies indicted alongside the previous president by the Fulton County District Legal professional’s workplace in Georgia earlier this month. In accordance with the indictment, Eastman and others tried to determine a slate of pretend electors to falsely certify that Trump gained the 2020 election so as to change the result.
In Tuesday’s Fox Information interview, Eastman continued to double down on lies concerning the election, and insisted he “had lots of evidence of fraud.”
“I haven’t seen that evidence, and I’m always wanting to see everything,” Ingraham mentioned. “I’d love to see that evidence.”
Earlier within the interview, Eastman claimed “we did nothing wrong.”
“We were challenging the election for what even Vice President [Mike] Pence described as serious allegations of fraud and numerous instances of officials violating state law,” he mentioned.
Eastman can also be accused of making an attempt to strain Pence into rejecting the legit electoral votes on Jan. 6, 2021, so as to appoint the faux electors supporting Trump.
Pence declined to associate with the scheme.
After Trump was indicted in Georgia, the previous vice chairman mentioned Trump and his “gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes, which would have resulted in the issue being turned over to the House of Representatives and literally chaos would have ensued.”
Within the wake of the 2020 election, Ingraham and different Fox Information hosts went together with Trump’s lie, amplifying questionable sources touting debunked claims about election malfeasance, whereas privately acknowledging these sources have been mendacity.
The appropriate-wing community has reined it in after settling a mammoth defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Methods for $787.5 million in April. The community subsequently parted methods with its star host Tucker Carlson, who routinely peddled lies concerning the election.
Fox Information can also be being sued by one other voting programs firm, Smartmatic, for $2.7 billion over the community’s promotion of false claims concerning the 2020 election.
Eastman was launched on $100,000 bond from the Fulton County jail after turning himself in final week. He additionally faces a disbarment trial in California and is is described as Co-Conspirator 2 in Trump’s federal election conspiracy indictment.
