Days after speaking alongside President Donald Trump at the Washington D.C. “Stop the Steal Rally” on Jan. 6, law professor John Eastman, was forced to leave his job at California’s Chapman University.
The event led the University to accuse him of playing a role in the chaos at the capitol.
Eastman and the university reached a settlement where he agreed to retire and will not sue the faculty for defamation.
In an interview with NTD, John C. Eastman a Lawyer, and former law professor at Chapman University, California said, “what really triggered this was the fact that I represented the President of the United States before the Supreme Court, the hostile reaction from the faculty began then. Can you imagine if the President had been Obama, they’d be throwing festivals for me. So that the double standard here is really preposterous.”
One hundred sixty-nine faculty members signed an open letter to the university demanding Eastman be fired.
The University president accused Eastman of “playing a role in the tragic events in Washington, D.C., that jeopardized our democracy.”
Many have attempted to pin blame on President Trump for the capitol chaos and to lump in anyone who participated in the Stop the Steal rally, despite no evidence that they incited these actions.
“At the Capitol, a group of 100 or so thugs, you know, made an intrusion on the Capitol. It’s really preposterous to think that what we were in the process of saying two miles away is what triggered those folks down there.”
Eastman denounced the capitol building violence and says a greater issue posed now is an attack on free speech. He says that if citizens feel they can’t speak up and take legal actions when they sense that something illegal has taken place, that’s a step away from the free society which America is meant to be.
But Eastman says he will continue to pursue the truth.
