FBI Seized Phone of Trump Coup-Plotter John Eastman

John Eastman. Photo: Andy Cross/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images In another major escalation of the Department of Justice’s criminal inquiry into the effort to overturn the 2020 election in the last days of Donald Trump’s presidency, federal agents have seized the phone of John Eastman, the attorney who sketched out how Republicans could stop the election certification on January 6.

According to a court filing by Eastman on Monday, FBI agents working on behalf of the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General seized his iPhone 12 Pro as he was leaving a restaurant in New Mexico last Wednesday. The filing, a motion to recover property from the government, also indicates agents were able to get access to the email accounts on his phone, as Eastman claims agents “forced” him to unlock it.

The seizure of Eastman’s phone took place on the same day that feds subpoenaed the Georgia Republican Party chairman, a Georgia GOP official, a Trump campaign official in Arizona, and a campaign official in Michigan over plans to gin up fake electors to skew the electoral college count in Trump’s favor. It also took place the same day federal agents searched the home of Jeffrey Clark, a DOJ official during the Trump administration who helped create the plan to fabricate the fake electors.

Clark and Eastman have been frequently mentioned in the televised House hearings on the plot to stop the election certification on January 6; the seizures on the same day suggest the DOJ criminal inquiry may also be interested in any communications between the two. During the hearings this past month, House committee members have tried to show the influence Eastman had over Trump, while revealing how many other in the administration thought his plan was nuts.

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