Even if he loses his law license due to his involvement in Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, former Trump attorney John Eastman will continue working on Colorado Republican Party’s case to stop unaffiliated voters from participating in primary elections, according to a lead attorney on the case.
Vince Bzdek, the editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette, had already forced Megan Schrader to lower her ethical bar — as a journalist — well below her comfort level.
Former Trump lawyer John Eastman, who’s facing possible dismissal from the California bar, says former Vice President Mike Pence is making a “potted plant pitch for the presidency” in which Pence claims to have been unable to stop Biden from becoming president when, in fact, according to Eastman, Pence was “in a position to try and do something about the illegality that even he acknowledged that occurred in the election.”
Over two years after the Jan. 6, insurrection, former Trump lawyer John Eastman — who’s facing disbarment in California — defended the mob, telling a right-wing podcaster in Colorado that some Jan. 6 insurrectionists were “people paid by news organizations to get video of violence so that that could build a false narrative” and that anti-Trump operatives manipulated the protesters by hiding barricades at the U.S. Capitol. Both claims are baseless. Here is the Colorado Times Recorder’s story published in 2022.
If you’ve got something long and stinky growing in your yard, don’t be scared. It’s probably a mushroom, and you may be able to eat it. And with all the rain in Colorado lately, all kinds of fungus are waiting for you on grass, mulch, and stumps.
Why is Colorado Politics Editor Luige del Puerto the only journalist featured at a giant gathering of conservatives in Denver?
Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s desperate race up the U.S. Capitol steps to try to cast her vote on the debt bill, caught in a CNN video over the weekend, has prompted an activist group to call on her to apologize for “failing to do her job by missing the vote on the debt ceiling bill and then lying about her reason for missing the vote.”
In a fundraising email this morning, the leader of Colorado’s Republican Party urged potential donors to “please give a thank you to both Congressman Ken Buck and Congresswoman Lauren Boebert for opposing this debt-ceiling compromise” and called on Colorado’s remaining Republican representative, Doug Lamborn, to join them.
My dad liked to say he wanted to take magic mushrooms on his deathbed.
Editor’s note: With LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers in town to battle the Denver Nuggets in the NBA playoffs, we’re looking back at a moment from three years ago when the basketball legend took note of Colorado. Below is an article, reposted from 2020, about LeBron James’ criticism of the news media’s coverage of Black Lives Matter protests.
