For a long time, John Eastman was an inconspicuous law professor. In the hearings on the Capitol storm, however, he turned out to be a central figure. Who is the man whose coup plans Trump fell in love with?
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Fabian Fellman, Washington
Nothing in his career indicated that John Eastman would suddenly rise to such fame. But now Donald Trump’s lawyer has emerged as the central figure in the January 6 hearings. Just as itinerant preacher Rasputin whispered crazy ideas to the Russian tsar, Eastman fed Trump ideas in December and January 2020 on how to justify staying in power. “A coup in search of a legal theory,” a federal judge later commented.