(17 May 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Phoenix – 17 May 2024
1. John Eastman speaking to the judge in Phoenix courthouse
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Phoenix – 17 May 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) John Eastman, Attorney:
"We are here with my counsel. I just, had an appearance at the arraignment on charges that, in my view, should never have been brought. I, of course, pled not guilty. I had zero communications with the electors in Arizona, zero involvement in any of the election litigation in Arizona or legislative hearings. And I am confident that with the laws faithfully applied, I will be fully be exonerated at the end of this process."
POOL
Phoenix – 17 May 2024
3. John Eastman speaking to the judge in courthouse UPPSOUND (English) Judge: "We’ll enter a not guilty plea on your behalf on counts one through nine. And we’ll set your next court hearings as follows."
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Phoenix – 17 May 2024
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ashley D. Adams, Attorney:
"That’ll be all of our statements for today."
(Reporter: Can you tell voters why they were in jeopardy for losing 1.7 million votes because of your legal theory?)
SOUNDBITE (English) John Eastman, Attorney:
"Yeah. That’s A pretty skewed question. I won’t answer it.
(Reporter: Sir, can you repeat repeat what you just said?)
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Phoenix – 17 May 2024
5. Med of John Eastman in Phoenix courthouse
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Phoenix – 17 May 2024
6. Various of John Eastman walking away from courthouse
STORYLINE:
Attorney John Eastman has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges for his role in the effort to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in Arizona to Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
Eastman devised a strategy to try to persuade Congress not to certify the election.
Among those charged in Arizona’s fake elector case, he is the first person to be arraigned.
He made a brief statement outside the courthouse Friday, saying the charges against him should have never been filed.
“I had zero communications with the electors in Arizona (and) zero involvement in any of the election litigation in Arizona or legislative hearings. And I am confident that with the laws faithfully applied, I will be fully be exonerated at the end of this process,” Eastman said. He declined to make further comment.
The Arizona indictment said Eastman encouraged the GOP electors to cast their votes in December 2020, unsuccessfully pressured state lawmakers to change the election’s outcome in Arizona and told then-Vice President Mike Pence that he could reject Democratic electors in the counting of electoral votes in Congress on Jan. 6, 2021.
Arraignments are scheduled for Tuesday for 12 others, including nine of the 11 Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring Trump had won Arizona.
AP video by Jacques Billeaud.
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