John Eastman: Is America Still the Land of the Free? | CPAC

So I have been thrilled with all of President Trump's nominees, but I think the one that is going to be most relevant to this fight is the one that got confirmed yesterday, 51 to 48, Kaspatow, because in my view, we have been witnessing is a nationwide conspiracy to deprive political opponents of their constitutional rights to free speech, to assembly, the right to petition the government for redress of grievances. And if you don't hold people accountable for what they did for that, that's a federal felony, by the way. There's a group called States United Democracy Center. They filed a bar complaint against me in California. They're a rabid anti-Trump organization designed to go after all the lawyers that were trying to help Trump. They were the ones that were hired by the attorney general of Arizona to prepare the prosecution memo for the electors and me and unindicted co-conspirator Trump in Arizona. And I've told media, I said, that's a little like hiring the Fox to do the safety memo for your chicken coop. It's utter nonsense. And the people that are doing that need to be held accountable. And, you know, if they spend some time in prison, maybe the next time they get power, they'll be a little bit hesitant about taking on this kind of lawfare against us. Amen. And we may never, we'll never get our privacy back. We may never get our reputations back, but this must not happen again. That's right. I teach at the Claremont Institute, our summer fellowship program. And I was teaching our John Marshall fellows, young lawyers, when the indictment in Georgia came down and everybody's phone starts going off and they made a, made fun of it at the end of the week when we had our big roasting. But the gentleman that roasted me then turned serious. And he said, we saw here was an exhibition of, and courage is contagious. And then he said, if you think about the last line of our national anthem, it's not so much whether that flag was still waving, it's what kind of land it is waving over. Is it still the land of the free and the home of the brave? Or is it now the land of the coward and the home of the slave? And ladies and gentlemen, I've got grandkids and I'm not willing to hand them over to a land of the coward and the home of the slave. We fight this battle until we win, until we win permanently. We fight it every day. We fight it in the streets. We fight it in the courts. We fight it wherever we can because our freedom is too precious to give up. You think about it. Our founders pledged to each other their lives and they meant it. Their fortunes and they meant it. Just ask Robert Morris who funded the Revolutionary War largely. But most importantly for them, more important than either of those, they pledged their sacred honor. What kind of sacred honor will we have if we hand off to our grandkids an enslavement contrary to what we inherited from our forebears? This is the fight for our time. It's the fight worth having. I can't think of anything more important to be doing. And I thank you all for being here and for the army that you are, for keeping America free, keeping America prosperous, and let's make America great again. Thank you all. Thank you guys.