New York Times Runs Fluffy Profile Of Law Prof Who Advised Trump How To Destroy Democracy

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Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt wrote a profile about John Eastman, the lawyer who laid out a six-step plan to ignore official election results and instead install Donald Trump as president for life, which would've likely plunged the country into another bloody Civil War. He's a bad guy, and while I'm open to sympathetic portraits of historical villains, I prefer to see them in Hamilton and Jesus Christ Superstar, not Saturday's edition of the Times.

You know you're in trouble when this is the article's subhead: "John Eastman was a little-known but respected conservative lawyer. Then he became influential with Donald Trump — and counseled him on how to retain power after losing the election."

For the billionth time, there was no legal way for Trump to remain president after he lost the presidential election. This is why we have elections and not trials by combat. Trump decisively lost both the popular vote and the Electoral College, which is already affirmative action for Republican presidential candidates. Trump spent two months trying to overturn a free and fair election, and despite losing every possible legal challenge, his actions only grew more insidious until a mob he summoned to Washington, DC, literally stormed the Capitol.

It took the Times more than a week to actually report on Eastman's coup memo, at least outside the opinion pages. And this drivel misses the larger point that America was close to a constitutional crisis, the chief ringleader is still at large, and remains the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024. Also, Haberman and Schmidt write that Eastman's memo is only what "Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans have likened to a blueprint for a coup," as if his obvious proposal for an obvious coup isn't obvious. They also implicitly describe GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger as an “anti-Trump Republican," as though this is just a personal issue. Kinzinger voted for Trump twice and supported most of his policies, but Kinzinger drew the line at literal coups and violent insurrections. Bill Kristol prefers the term “pro-democracy Republican," but that still feels like a contradiction in terms.

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1. I would expect this kind of access journalism from Haberman, kind of surprised that Schmidt

Allowed his name on this atrocity.

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2. MAGA Haberman does it again

Shocker.

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3. First two words pissed me off and tuned me out. Maggie Haberman.

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4. Less than an hour ago I read the section in the Woodward/Costa book about this and it was

even more disturbing than anything I've seen reported. There's nothing positive about Eastman. He's just a cult member with more degrees.

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5. "How to retain power after losing the election"

How benign-sounding. I guess "Seize the government by force of arms, violence, and murder" might have upset some tum-tums on a pleasant Saturday morning.

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6. NYT profile of Eastman (TFG's coup lawyer) is missing a great deal of information

I dropped my subscription to the NYT a very long ago. These assholes did their best to elect TFG and their reporting on the Hillary email story was simply slimy. This story on Eastman is a whitewash and leaves out key fact because the NYT is not a real news organization and the NYT really wants to see TFG re-elected

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