Indicted Trump Lawyer Whines That Legal Fees Are Financially Ruining Him

Indicted former Trump lawyer John Eastman is not happy about how expensive it is to fight an indictment, and he whined during a recent interview about spending close to $3 million on his legal fees so far. He went as far as to say that he's hoping he doesn't end up draining his wife's retirement fund - a clear move to gain sympathy from right wing audiences. But that's what happens to lawyers that get involved with Donald Trump, and Farron Cousins explains why this was completely predictable.

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Indicted Trump lawyer, John Eastman recently went on a podcast called Declassified, which is a right wing podcast, and he whined about the fact that his legal fees have cost him somewhere between 3,000,003 and a half million dollars. That's, it's a lot of money, don't get me wrong, but he's sad that it's costing him so much, and he says that, well, let me just read you, I'm trying very hard not to completely deplete my wife's retirement fund. I mean, she's the real victim here. My poor wife of all these years, I'm, I'm stealing money from her retirement fund to pay for my legal fees. I mean, you're a career lawyer, man. I mean, granted, listen, I don't know a ton about John Eastman's legal career, but I do know that he went on to be a law professor, right? He, he helped start the Claremont Institute.

So you've done a lot of things that would indicate that you've made a lot of money, and again, three million's a lot. I, I'm not trying to diminish that, but kind based on your history, it seems like you've probably made a lot more than that, and I seriously doubt you've even considered depleting your wife's retirement fund. I'm willing to bet you're doing just fine, buddy. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think you're probably okay. But he didn't just whine, of course, about his wife's retirement fund and losing all of his money. He went on to talk about how he is being persecuted. He said, quote, when our founders pledge their lives and their fortunes and their sacred honors to create a government of a free people with free institutions, they put everything on the line. And we are at a crossroads in our country on whether we're going to go back to a tyrannical form of government, where we are subjects, not free citizens, or whether we are going to fight like our forefathers fought and our foremothers fought for liberty.

Get you right here, right? What does that mean? They, what does that mean? Why are you even saying this? Like gibberish string of words here as if it matters, right? Because it's, it's not even real sentences, that have any basis in reality, you are comparing yourself to the people who fought for the independence of this country, and you got indicted for trying to overturn election results. You wouldn't be welcomed with the founding fathers and the founding mothers. No, they would not invite you to tea. They would try you for treason. And trust me, back then, they were a little bit more harsh with it, weren't they? You wouldn't be welcomed with open arms. You wouldn't be one of them.

They wouldn't say, wow, what a great, loyal patriot. They would say, Hey, we're gonna stick your on the next boat back to England. You go deal with that, because if you stay here, it's not gonna work out well for you, bud. But I am so, so sick and tired of seeing these conservatives who are finally facing consequences for their actions acting like martyrs, acting like they're the ones giving up everything. Dude, according to the indictment, you broke the law. I mean, your guilt has yet to be determined, but the indictment says you clearly did it. You don't get to whine about that. These are the consequences of your actions. Aren't you a member of the Republican Party? The party that's all about personal responsibility. Where's your personal responsibility? Now, I goofed. I'm sorry I messed up, but I'm gonna fight it because I believe what I did was right. You haven't even said that. You're just out there acting like you're nailing your own cross together about to crucify yourself, hoping that people will take your pleas that, oh, I'm gonna deplete my wife's savings account. You're hoping that people will give you money to fight your legal fight so that you don't have to come off your own nest egg. That's not personal responsibility. That's shifting the blame and shifting the burden onto other people, which, let's be honest, that is what the Republican Party does, even though they swear that they stand for the complete opposite.