They Took His Phone, His Emails, Even His Kid's Uber Eats

Thank you, thank you very much. My name is Barry Bennett, and this is Professor John Eastman. The professor is a brilliant legal scholar, and I'm a fan of, just watched the TV show, Lincoln Lawyers. We have a lot in common. But what we do have in common, unfortunately, is that we were both made victims of our own government because we dared to end the battle of Trump. For me, you know, I ran Ben Carson's campaign back in 2015, 2016. Great American. And I became a senior advisor to the Trump campaign in 2016. Within months of working at the Trump campaign, Obama's CIA director, John Brennan, gave my name, along with 25 others, to the Five Eyes to ask our so-called allies to spy on us in the Russia gate. That led to me being bumped by both the UK and Australia and endlessly grilled about Russia and Hillary's emails and all that. And then that, you know, led to, you know, the FBI taking my phone and my emails, the emails of my nine-year-old kid. They took my Uber Eats account. They got a lot of information there. But, you know, one of the things, unfortunately, that John and I have in common, we both had to spend millions of dollars to defend ourselves. And, John, I'm further along in the process. John is still in the fight. He needs our help. But, anyway, I want to be quick and tell you who I was and what I've gone through. But John's case is really happening right now. So I want him to have seven and a half minutes, and I'll take two and a half. Very good. Thank you. If you look, one of the most egregious examples of the psychological analysis of projection was when the Democrats before the 2024 election said President Trump would weaponize the Department of Justice. I said, are you kidding me? What have we been looking at for the last four years? You know, they took my phone in New Mexico outside of a restaurant with an egregiously broad warrant that said all the data on your phone. Now, we fought a revolutionary war to stop that. That's called the General Warrant. The Fourth Amendment requires that they identify what they're going to search and seize with particularity. They just said everything on your phone. And, of course, modern phones are a portal to everything, every communication, every transaction you have. They said, oh, no, we're not allowed to look at what we've seized until we get a second warrant. And about a month later, I start getting inquiries from a team in Portland, Oregon, asking if certain things I was going to assert privilege over. I said, well, I've got a question. How do you even have that? Where was this second warrant? Oh, we got that. I said, I haven't seen it. Well, yeah, but the phone was in our possession by then. So we served the warrant on ourselves. This is utter nonsense. And they are shredding the First Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, the Sixth Amendment, the right to counsel, the right to attorney-client privilege. I had a client. My wife would—sometimes he would forget the time zone difference from where I was on the West Coast and where he was, 4.30, 5.30 in the morning. My wife would nudge me. She said, you better get that. It might be the client. Well, the client was the President of the United States. And he asked me to help him get the legal challenges to the fraudulent and illegal election in 2020 for the courts to actually consider that. And for that, I was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in Jack Smith's criminal prosecution against President Trump, an indicted co-conspirator in Georgia, an indicted co-conspirator in Arizona, where I had no involvement whatsoever. They put my bar license in California currently on inactive status. I can't practice out there. At least I'm still able to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. But part of what's going on here, and they've admitted this, is to scare lawyers from ever taking on causes or clients that the left doesn't want you to take on. This is an egregious abuse of our criminal justice system, the likes of which we have never seen. In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt's new appointment as Attorney General, Robert Jackson, he would later become Supreme Court Justice and head of the Nuremberg trials after World War II. And he had all the U.S. attorneys in the country at a meeting, and he warned them not to abuse their power. And the greatest temptation for abuse of power was to find people you don't like and then scour the book to see if you can pin something on them, rather than beginning with the crime and investigate whodunit. And that's what we have been witnessing out of the Department of Justice, out of the FBI, out of that ridiculous select committee, J6, with Liz Cheney running it, and destroying exculpatory evidence, issuing subpoenas without sign-off by court, acting as law enforcement agencies without all the guardrails that our Constitution puts on law enforcement agencies. And people have said, well, Eastman, why don't you just look forward and leave it alone, don't look back. If we don't get to the bottom of what they did and hold the people who did it accountable, they will do it again the first opportunity they get.