Anger as Trump hosts documentary screening for lawyer who tried to overturn 2020 election result
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Screening came just before anniversary of January 6 insurrection at U.S. Capitol. Donald Trump is facing criticism for premiering a documentary over the weekend at Mar-a-Lago about an allied lawyer who helped him strategize about how to overturn the 2020 election results.
The documentary examines “growing evidence that a two-tiered justice system has emerged, where conservative figures face severe penalties,” according to its creators. Other election deniers were also at the event, including his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former trade official Peter Navarro, who helped devise a separate plan from Eastman’s to reject the 2020 results and later spent time in prison for being in contempt of the January 6 congressional committee.
“This is sickening!" Symone Sanders-Townsend said on Sunday. "Those people are not patriots," she added. "What Donald Trump did last night is a disgrace to the country. It’s a disgrace to the Constitution, and the fact that they didn’t tell anybody about it lets you know that they knew what they were doing was untoward. They didn’t want to put a spotlight on it, but they wanted to do it anyway.".
The Independent has contacted the Trump transition team for comment. During the event, Trump reportedly praised Eastman. "I’m a big fan of John Eastman,” MSNBC reported Trump as saying. “Y’know, he was right. He happened to be right. That’s why they changed the law and nobody wants to talk about that...They said he’s not allowed to do it, he’s not allowed to do it, and they convinced him he’s not allowed to do it — our vice president — then right after the election they changed the law so he can’t do it.”.
