Lawyer Who Advised Trump Says Federal Agents Seized Phone
Newsy
The move underscores federal investigators' interest in the unsuccessful schemes advanced by Trump advisers to keep the former president in power.
A conservative lawyer who aided former President Donald Trump's efforts to undo the 2020 election results, and who has been repeatedly referenced in House hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, said in a court filing Monday that federal agents seized his cell phone last week.
John Eastman said the agents took his phone as he left a restaurant last Wednesday evening, the same day law enforcement officials conducted similar activity around the country as part of broadening probes into efforts by Trump allies to overturn the election.
The move underscores federal investigators' interest in the unsuccessful schemes advanced by Trump advisers to help keep the Republican president in power in the period between the November 2020 election and the riot at the Capitol two months later, when Trump loyalists stormed the building to halt the certification of the election results.
