Laura Ingraham.Photo:Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty
Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty
Fox News host Laura Ingraham said this week she has not seen any evidence of election fraud, even as one ofDonald Trump’s allies continued to tout false claims about the 2020 presidential election.
John Eastman— a lawyer, legal commentator and former academic who provided advice to Trump while he was in office — said in a Tuesday interview he “had lots of evidence of fraud.”
“I haven’t seen that evidence, and I’m always wanting to see everything,” Ingraham responded. “I’d love to see that evidence.”
Dominion had argued that some of the people spreading the lies about election fraud — including Fox News personalities — privately acknowledged they did not believe the conspiracy theories, but still amplified them on-air, allegedly in order to get ratings.
That Eastman continues to allege election fraud is also significant, considering he is a central figure in the investigations into the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riots and other attempts to overturn the election.
A former professor at Chapman University, he is alsoone of 19 defendants(including Trump himself) accused of attempting to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results.
Last week, Eastman turned himself in to Fulton County authorities, with his attorney in the Georgia case tellingABC Newsthat the lawyer plans to go to trial, saying that “there will be no plea deal.” His bond was set at $100,000, and he was released shortly after surrendering on Aug. 22.
John Eastman’s mug shot, taken Aug. 22, 2023.Fulton County Sheriff’s Office via Getty
Fulton County Sheriff’s Office via Getty
Eastman is also thought to be one of the six co-conspirators mentioned in another indictment, this one from a federal grand jury investigating theJan. 6, 2021, Capitol riotand other efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
Pence did not, insteadreleasing a statementhours before Congress met to certify the election forJoe Biden, informing both the president and the public that he didn’t have the constitutional power — or any intention — to intervene with the country’s vote.
source: people.com
