John Eastman Is Jesus On The Cross. Please Send Money.

Stigmata, or GTFO.

Last week, a judge in California recommended that Trump’s coup lawyer John Eastman be disbarred for his role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election results. In her 128-page ruling, Judge Yvette Roland of the California Bar Court found that his actions constituted “exceptionally serious ethical violations warranting severe professional discipline” and ordered him transferred to “involuntary inactive status” pending review by the state’s Supreme Court.

Also last week, Eastman’s adult children penned an open letter in Glen Beck’s “The Blaze,” likening their father to Jesus on the cross, with Judge Roland in the role of Judas Iscariot.

“While it may seem a little heavy-handed to compare the work of Eastman and others to the passion and death of Jesus Christ, a little reflection can make clear the connections,” Benjamin Eastman and his sister Christina Wheatland insisted, before pivoting to a moneybeg for their daddy’s legal defense fund.

The juxtaposition was unintentionally hilarious, with the pair spewing gobbledygook legalese and raging incoherently at the godless liberals persecuting a devout Catholic during Lent, even as the judge meticulously detailed his extra-legal conduct and laid out “clear and convincing evidence” that he’d committed seven transgressions involving moral turpitude.

“President Biden declared in his statement at the start of Ramadan, this ‘sacred month is a time for reflection and renewal,’” the kids sulked. “One would hope that a government so concerned with protecting the sacred nature of the penitential season of Ramadan would be similarly respectful of Lent for devout Christians. And yet, on the Wednesday of Holy Week, the lead-up to the holiest day of the Christian calendar, Judge Yvette Roland of the California Bar Court issued her ruling, recommending that Eastman, a Roman Catholic, be disbarred.”

Damn you, Joe Biden! Why must you dispatch the state bar judge to crucify John Eastman during Holy Week? Why is it you only care about Muslims, and not Catholics?

The Eastman children praised their father’s “encyclopedic knowledge and understanding of the law” and called him “the greatest threat to the far left’s regime of anarcho-tyranny.” But they don’t really seem to understand what he did to get himself in this pickle.

For starters, they are under the impression that he worked for the government.

“[I]f a conservative lawyer dares to provide legal counsel to a sitting U.S. president, his livelihood and reputation will be destroyed with the full force of government and other institutions infected by the ‘woke’ virus,” they wailed.

The “sitting U.S. president” had a whole cadre of lawyers who said that Eastman’s ideas were bonkers and threatened to quit en masse if he used the Justice Department to put them into effect. But, as Judge Roland pointed out, “On December 6, 2020, Eastman received a formal engagement letter for legal services, dated December 5, from President Trump’s 2020 presidential re-election campaign committee (Trump’s Campaign). The engagement letter was between Eastman and President Trump, in his capacity as a presidential candidate, and Trump’s campaign.”

The Eastman kids described the infamous “coup memos,” wherein their father outlined plans for Vice President Pence to toss out swing state ballots, as “internal brainstorming documents in which he laid out numerous scenarios for consideration in efforts to combat the massive instances of illegality that his investigations had revealed in the 2020 election.”

“He showed that it is an open question whether the vice president, as president of the Senate, has the authority to resolve disputes over contested electoral votes,” they asserted confidently. “Eastman testified under oath that he told President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence that this would not be a prudent action.”

(Yes, they maintained the affectation of referring to “Eastman” and “his family” throughout. They also cited an article written by their mother without bothering to mention the connection. But if you point and laugh at these weirdos, they’ll probably accuse you of anti-Catholic bias.)

In the kids’ version of events, “Eastman urged Pence to return the slates of electors back to the states to show to the American people they still hold the reins of power in our elections when the manner for choosing presidential electors — a constitutional authority assigned exclusively to the state legislatures — was violated by state elections officials.”

That is simply not accurate. Eastman’s first memo suggested that Pence should unilaterally reject swing state electors and declare Trump president.

When he gets to Arizona, he announces that he has multiple slates of electors, and so is going to defer decision on that until finishing the other States. This would be the first break with the procedure set out in the Act.

At the end, he announces that because of the ongoing disputes in the 7 States, there are no electors that can be deemed validly appointed in those States. That means the total number of “electors appointed” – the language of the 12th Amendment – is 454. This reading of the 12th Amendment has also been advanced by Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe. A “majority of the electors appointed” would therefore be 228. There are at this point 232 votes for Trump, 222 votes for Biden. Pence then gavels President Trump as re-elected.

It was only when Pence refused to do it that Eastman went back to the drawing board and concocted the plan to kick the decision back to the states: “VP Pence determines that the ongoing election challenges must conclude before ballots can be counted, and adjourns the joint session of Congress, determining that the time restrictions in the Electoral County Act are contrary to his authority under the 12th Amendment and therefore void.”

Eastman’s mentor, conservative Judge Michael Luttig, described both iterations of this scheme as blatantly illegal.

“There was no support whatsoever, either in the Constitution of the United States, nor the laws of the United States for the vice president, frankly, ever to count alternative electoral slates from the states that had not been officially certified by the designated state official in the Electoral Count Act of 1887,” he testified to the January 6 Committee, later referring to Eastman’s memos as “constitutional mischief.”

Or as Judge Roland put it, “The evidence clearly and convincingly proves that Eastman and President Trump entered into an agreement to obstruct the Joint Session of Congress by unlawfully having Vice President Pence reject or delay the counting of electoral votes on January 6, 2021.”

Eastman himself knew that no court in the country was going to bless what he was pushing. In his first memo, he cautioned that “The main thing here is that Pence should do this without asking for permission – either from a vote of the joint session or from the Court.”

And in conversation with Pence’s legal advisor Greg Jacob, he conceded that the Supreme Court would reject it unanimously, were the case before it.

"We had an extended discussion, an hour-and-a-half to two hours, on January 5. And when I pressed him on the point, I said, 'John, if the vice president did what you are asking him to do, we would lose 9-to-nothing in the Supreme Court, wouldn't we?'" Jacob testified. "And he initially started it, 'Well, I think maybe you would lose only 7-2,' and after some further discussion acknowledged, 'Well, yeah, you're right, we would lose 9-nothing.'"

So it’s a bit much for the Eastman kids to howl that their poor father is being crucified by the Sanhedrin for giving honest legal advice.

Jesus was betrayed and unjustly condemned because he preached a gospel message that was contrary to the desires of the ruling class of his time. Eastman has been betrayed and indicted for speaking up about election illegality and fraud, contrary to the desires of the political establishment and the mainstream media. At stake is the very soul of our nation, which was founded on the Judeo-Christian fundamentals of truth and justice.

The kids are also a wee smidge confused about the difference between civil, criminal and administrative penalties, complaining that their father is being penalized for violating “the procedural timing provisions of the Electoral Count Act,” which “is not a criminal statute, nor even one that establishes civil liability.”

In fact, their father is charged in Georgia with participating in a criminal conspiracy to substitute fake Trump electors for the real Biden ones. In DC, he’s an unindicted co-conspirator in Trump’s efforts to obstruct Congress. And in California, he was just found to have failed to live up to his ethical obligations by misleading the courts and the public, violating his duty of candor, and plotting with Trump to obstruct the congressional certification of Biden’s win.

“Eastman’s actions transgressed those ethical limits by advocating, participating in and pursuing a strategy to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election that lacked evidentiary or legal support,” Judge Roland wrote. “Vigorous advocacy does not absolve Eastman of his professional responsibilities around honesty and upholding the rule of law.”

Although Eastman will seek review, as of today, he’s ineligible to practice law in the state of California. But you can help! After exhorting fellow conservatives to file retaliatory bar and judicial complaints, “the family” got to the heart of the matter.

To the American people: Your prayers and financial support mean a lot, this week more than ever.

The link is to a GiveSendGo page where Eastman details his personal stations of the cross, including “my own Triduum since the California Bar Court issued its ruling recommending that I be disbarred.”

He really appreciates the $717,206(!) donated so far, and if you just keep sending your pennies, he’ll be resurrected soon.

“We know that truth will ultimately prevail, but how or when is not certain,” he sermonizes.

Amen and Inshallah.

“Love and Death,” 1975