John Eastman, CU Boulder’s visiting professor of conservative thought and policy during the 2020-21 academic year, has come under increasing scrutiny for his role in advising Trump on how to stay in power after losing the 2020 election.
John Eastman, a lawyer who represented Donald Trump following the president’s 2020 election loss, used his University of Colorado email account while serving as a visiting professor in Boulder to advise a Pennsylvania lawmaker on how to challenge that state’s electors, according to records submitted to Congress.
It was during that visit to Philadelphia that Eastman’s role in advising Trump on how to remain in office began, The New York Times. Eastman was in town for an academic conference, the newspaper reported, when he met with Trump’s team at a hotel as they were putting together a legal brief to challenge the election results in Pennsylvania. Eastman told the Times he was only in the room for 15 minutes — “long enough, he said, for him to catch COVID-19 there,” the newspaper reported.
When asked about the emails submitted to the committee, Sorensen noted that CU Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano made his thoughts about Eastman clear the day after the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington, D.C. “His continued advocacy of conspiracy theories is repugnant,” DiStefano said of Eastman last year.
The emails submitted to the Jan. 6 committee were obtained via a Colorado Open Records Act request submitted to the university by the Colorado Ethics Institute, a nonprofit organization whose mission is “working to ensure public officials comply with ethics codes, transparency rules and their oaths of office,”The organization highlighted findings from Eastman’s emails and expenditures and included them in a memo dated April 19 that was addressed and sent to the Jan. 6 committee.
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