Alan Dershowitz: Lawfare Against Trump & Allies "Worse Than Stalinism"

On Saturday evening, President-elect Donald Trump and dozens of others screened a new documentary, "The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice," which decries the use of "lawfare" against Trump's allies who questioned election integrity in 2020.
Alan Dershowitz, a retired Harvard Law professor, told the audience at Mar-a-Lago during the screening event that the lawfare against Trump was "worse than Stalinism."
Dershowitz left the audience with a message:
"Fight back fairly. Use the law. And I can help you do that. We can fight back fairly. We can fight back in a way that makes it clear that we respect the law. We will not use lawfare against lawfare. We will use the Constitution and the rule of law."
Epoch Times senior editor Jan Jekielek released Dershowitz's speech on X.
An earlier note titled "In New Film, Former Trump Attorney Details Struggles of Conservative Lawyers" by Epoch's Emel Akan provided more color into the new film...
In a new documentary, constitutional scholar John Eastman argues that in recent years, the United States has seen the rise of a "two-tiered justice system" in which the legal system has unfairly targeted lawyers representing conservative clients.
In the new film "The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice," he argues that lawyers who defended President Donald Trump and other conservative figures after the 2020 election faced harsh penalties for questioning election integrity—penalties he believes would not be applied if those on the left made similar claims.
Eastman, a former law professor, gained national attention for advising Trump on constitutional challenges to election procedures in several key battleground states following the 2020 presidential election. He has faced both disbarment and criminal charges related to his role.
The documentary, which will premiere on Jan. 4 at Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, aims to shed light on the problems he and other lawyers have faced.
Alongside Eastman, the movie also features Alan Dershowitz, a retired Harvard Law professor, and Jeffrey Clark, a senior Justice Department official in the Trump administration.
"For the last three years, everybody that was involved in raising the serious challenge to illegality in the 2020 election has been targeted for lawfare, criminal prosecutions, and bar disbarment proceedings," Eastman told The Epoch Times.
He posits that the goal of these efforts has been not only to get lawyers disbarred but also send a message so that no one will dare take on such challenges in the future.
"The purpose of the movie is to expose that lawfare, but also to put together a brief summary of the evidence of illegality that occurred in the 2020 election, so people can know that we weren't making this stuff up," Eastman said.
He calls these actions against him and other lawyers "unjustified and unprecedented."
"I'd like Americans to understand that what we did was in defense of the Constitution," Eastman said. "I want people to learn about it and to come away angry, so that it never happens again."
In 2020, he was invited to join an election integrity working group organized at Trump's request. The group was formed in anticipation of post-election litigation related to the presidential race. On Dec. 6, 2020, Eastman received a formal engagement letter for legal services defining the scope of the agreement.
Eastman is facing criminal charges in both Georgia and Arizona related to his alleged role in efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Following 35 days of trial, a California state bar court judge found in March 2024 that "Eastman's wrongdoing constitutes exceptionally serious ethical violations warranting severe professional discipline" and recommended his disbarment.
Judge Yvette Roland ruled that Eastman, who had held his California law license for more than 26 years, broke ethics rules by advancing Trump's challenges to the integrity of the 2020 election.
"His lack of insight into the wrongfulness of his misconduct is deeply troubling," she wrote.
Eastman has also been allegedly de-banked by Bank of America and USAA.